About to step onto therugby fieldof Sydney’s ANZ stadium to play her grand finale, Akosita, 18 at the time, received a life- changing phone call.
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“I went back to the sheds to get ready for the game and I got a call and I knew it was my doctor’s number. I answered and he was like, ‘Your blood tests came back through.’ And I was like, ‘Am I low in iron?’ And he goes, ‘You’re six weeks pregnant!’ Even at six weeks, I knew I was going to put my baby at risk, I won’t do that to my body so I sat out of my grand final.”
A few days later,19-year-oldAkosita headed to her first scan.
“At my scan, the doctor kept giving me these confused looks and I said, ‘Is everything OK?’ I was thinking she was going to tell me the baby was gone. She said, ‘You’re not six weeks pregnant.’ And I was like, ‘OK, I’m not pregnant, so that means my parents aren’t going to kill me!’ But she turned around and says, ‘You’re 22 weeks pregnant! You’re having a boy.’”
Teen Mom Akosita's partner, Thomson lives with the Masima family, making it a full house.
Scared for what she’d unwittingly put herbaby Andrewthrough, Akosita’s doctors did more scans.
“The doctor needed to do more scans to make sure everything was all right because I’d been playing so much contact sport. I was really scared. And he was!” she says. “He’s a little tough coconut. He was fine! My doctor was like, ‘Your baby is so lucky!’”
Holly RichardsHolly Richards is a freelance contributor to WHO and New Idea. With more than a decade of experience in the entertainment world she lives and breathes everything from the latest Bachelor gossip to who designed Meghan Markle's most recent outfit. Check out her reality TV podcast Real Talk With Holly & Ali.