{"id":246862,"date":"2021-06-15T16:30:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T21:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=246862"},"modified":"2021-06-14T22:51:27","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T03:51:27","slug":"pregnant-and-homeless-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pregnant-and-homeless-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Pregnant and homeless at 17, she chose life and built her own successful business"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today, Jodie Gray is a successful businesswoman with a website that supports hundreds of small businesses across the United Kingdom. But her journey started off differently from most \u2014 alone, scared, pregnant and homeless.<\/p>\n

Originally from London, Gray and her family moved to France for a few years. After relocating back to the UK, she was 16 and alone. She had no job, no place to live, and was struggling with her mental health. It was a year later that she became pregnant and, according to the Plymouth Herald<\/a>, she felt “alone and completely worthless.”<\/p>\n

Many teen girls and women in her situation \u2014 pregnant and homeless \u2014 would have felt they had no choice but to go through with an abortion and would likely have been pressured into undergoing one. Thankfully, Gray didn’t, and her daughter turned out to be the inspiration she needed to turn her life around.<\/p>\n