I am a 37 year old lady, I have four children, 2 boys and 2 girls. After the few posts of yours I have read I just want to wrap my arms around you and give you a big hug. You are so talented in so many ways and I know this from just a few posts. I wonder how amazing you are in person. I hope that both my daughters will be as bright and successful (YES SUCCESSFUL) as you when they get older. You are clever and yes you have made mistakes, we all have so I am not trying to put you on a pedestal. However, it is how you handle your bumps in the road, how you express yourself, and your photographic art that inspires this old lady.

Ashley anyone who has negative comments for you after you have been so honest with yourself and publicly, well in my opinion they are jealous of your ability to not only survive but thrive.

I hope you continue to be a wonderful you!!

Thank you!
Meghan

I’m going through the adoption process now and I would love to know where you get your “facts” (and yes, I put that in parentheses because those are not at all true). Just so you know, you can’t believe everything that you read on the internet or that people tell you in reality. Read those two sentences you threw in there. YOU’RE BROKE! YOU LIVE WITH YOUR MOTHER! What are you going to do once you go to college, leave the baby with your mother while you go ‘try to make a better life’? Most teenage mothers don’t have big houses or stable careers, yes, some do and I’m not trying to bag on teen mothers, but most, like you probably are, live off of the government. You’ll probably have government housing, WIC, foodstamps, medicaid and every other thing that hard working people like my parents and others have to pay for through their taxes because somebody wasn’t smart enough to consider birth control or simply just wait until they were ready for a child. Ashley will always be Callie’s birth mother and you can’t take that title away from her. And by the way, if a crack whore gets pregnant and doesn’t want to keep the baby but has people like you preaching that birth mothers are the most capable of raising the baby, does that mean she should keep it? LOL, and then she’ll continue smoking crack and she’s probably got a few screws loose in her head and the kid’s probably abused by all of her mother’s ‘boyfriends’. Doesn’t that sound like a great life!? you’re an idiot. Ashley did the best possible thing for Callie, it’s not like she fucking abandoned her. That child lives in the lap of comfort and has tons and TONSSSS of people that care for her, Ashley visits Callie all the time, plays with her, and this adoption obviously broke her heart. So quit making her out to be the damn bad guy, because honestly I have more respect for people like Ashley who can admit they aren’t the best candidate for it, than people like you who go around bragging that they kept their baby. You are still just another statistic and annoyance to all the taxpayers and people with heads on their shoulders.