MTV’s 16 and Pregnant is a bit of a grab bag show. Since the producers take an hour to tell the story of one girl’s pregnancy, it is slow going if the girl isn’t interesting. But considering the network has been getting a lot flack for the bad behavior of its teenage moms lately, it makes sense that they aired an episode about a relatively sane, mundane girl on last night’s first new episode in awhile. Last night we met Brooke Smitherman-Tarrant. The episode was a slow burn of depression, as Brooke seems like a well intentioned, if under-motivated girl in a happy relationship when she gets pregnant.
Here’s what we know so far about our girl. More »