This American teen now has a 16-calendar year-preceding. 

In advance of Shailene Woodley starred in Massive Small Lies and was (briefly) engaged to Aaron Rodgers, she was the direct of ABC Family’s drama The Solution Daily life of the American Teen, which premiered on July 1, 2008. In the sequence, Shailene performed Amy, a 15-year-aged who will turn out to be pregnant correct just after possessing intercourse for the initial time with the most properly identified boy in college Ricky Underwood (Daren Kagasoff). Complicating matters? Due to the truth their information, they had each began dating other classmates.

Helmed by the creators of 7th Heaven, The Top secret Lifetime of the American Teenager aired 121 episodes ahead of ending its 6-year operate in 2013. In a 2020 interview with Bustle, Shailene mirrored on her time on the sequence. 

I can only speak [about my characters’ sex lives] by way of my information with sexual intercourse,” she shared. “When I signed on to Solution Existence, I go by means of [three] episodes and I signed a contract for six a lengthy time. [Those episodes] all strike home. I had good friends in considerable college who have been pregnant. It felt like anything that I wanted to be sending into the complete globe.”