Rose Cordero Pregnant At Age 19

Rose Cordero is pregnant!

The news about the 19-year-old model comes via Facebook, where a picture was posted of friends surrounding her on a beach and kissing her bared tummy.

Based on recent fashion photos alone, though, you wouldn't know Rose is with child. Dominican Republic-born Cordero most recently appeared in a sexy shoot for Marie Claire Italy's October issue posing in several belly-baring looks.

On online threads where the news spread, fashion fans have compared Cordero to fellow model Jourdan Dunn, another rising black model who got pregnant at age 19.

One difference, some commentators have noted, is that Dunn's profile was already quite high when she had her baby -- she even made a memorable runway appearance while seven months pregnant at Jean Paul Gaultier in 2009.

Cordero's biggest achievement to date has been becoming the first solo black model to grace the cover of French Vogue since 2002 (see the pic below).

But Dunn's success (plus the success of Miranda Kerr, Gisele Bundchen, etc) has proved that having a baby doesn't mean the end of one's modeling days.

Congrats to the young mom-to-be!

Below, check out other mommy models!

Comments

[yvettesuniverse]

12:54 PM on 10/14/2011

this model is not popular eneough to be able to make a comeback & get things back on track. i've never even heard of her. she is just beginning... she is no giselle or miranda. those models were at the top of their game before they decided to become mothers. say "goodbye" to your modeling career. there are plenty of others that will take the reins.

[xoxolovergirl]

11:53 AM on 10/14/2011

Niki Taylor (huge supermodel of the 1990's) had twins at 18/19 while her career was on fire. She came back stronger than ever afterwards. Having a baby is not the end to a models career as many have proven, lol.

[annasophie1228]

11:51 AM on 10/14/2011

so another single working mother. where's the beef to this story?

[jgalejohns]

11:05 PM on 10/13/2011

If's she's 19, she's no longer considered either a child or a teenager. She's an adult. While that is young in our day and time, my mother was married at the age of 17 and had her first of 5 children at the age of 18. When did things change from the late 50's to today where people where considered young adults to now where they're helpless children?

[lastrose]

11:27 AM on 10/13/2011

With age comes wisdom and the average 19 yr old is not an adult but a freshman in college. However, maturity cannot be replaced with money or fame. Sometimes I think it's selfish to create other human beings......
Hopefully, her early career can afford a strong support system around the raising of a child.

[Dionita]

11:10 AM on 10/11/2011

I was having my second child at 19. Big deal. She is of perfect child bearing age, fertile and obviously happy. Why the implicitly judgmental headline?

[JenniferWest]

09:32 PM on 10/12/2011

I thought the same thing. 19 is an Adult. My mother had 2 children at that age.

[Samantha Monteleone]

05:14 AM on 10/13/2011

I had my son at nineteen. Don't understand the big deal. I have two children now, and I am twenty-one. You know when you're ready to have kids. Lol.

[aalew06]

06:35 PM on 10/10/2011

That beautiful girl Simone Lewis from ANTM she is the next upcoming STAR!! OMG she is a young spokesmodel, educated, actress, model the list goes on and on she should be on the COVER of Italian Vogue and walking those runways!!!!! The fashion industry is missing out if this girl hasn't been tapped for her talents and skill in front of the camera!!

[Sunflo]

03:25 AM on 10/10/2011

She's very beautiful. Something about her reminds me of J.Lo.

[caution08]

12:14 AM on 10/10/2011

SO!!!!!! WHO CARES .

[lcisme70]

04:34 PM on 10/13/2011

so!!!! why comment?

[caution08]

10:31 PM on 10/13/2011

cause i can ! DUMMY;

[Raging Cajun]

10:10 PM on 10/09/2011

I must note that the HPost has a story on Herman Cain's "controversial" remarks that racism does not hold blacks back in a big way. Most comments disagree and point to the high level of black poverty, unemployment and the high percentage of black men in prison. The engine that drives black poverty is our high illegitimacy rate. The black illegitimacy rate is at least 70%. In cities it is upwards of 90%. The same percentage of black children live with grandparents as live with 2 married parents. Nothing guarantees poverty better than having a child as a teen and having a child before 22. Shame on the Huff Post for glamorizing this TEENAGERS out-of-wedlock pregnancy. Did she even graduate from high school? She most certainly does not have a college degree and modeling is not a career that will provide her with stable employment and benefits. Would anyone find the prospect of an unmarried black teenager glamorous and something to celebrate if she were not a model and just another pregnant black teen from the hood? Shameful. Absolutely shameful, and disgusting.

[Samantha Monteleone]

05:21 AM on 10/13/2011

Seriously, whatever. I know it is your personal opinion, but not everyone goes to college or wants to. I am a mother of two. I had my first child at nineteen, and I am now twenty-one, have two beautiful children, and am getting married next month. I couldn't be any happier, and I certainly hope Rose feels the same. I believe that a good, dedicated mother certainly deserves recognition.

Also, personally, I don't mean to be so touchy about this, but besides, do you really even know all of the details of this girl's personal life? Who is to say that she doesn't know the father or that they aren't in a relationship? Who is to say she won't have help or won't have enough money to support herself? Who is to say that she won't get another job to support her child? I believe that you are being a little too harsh and judgemental.

[Raging Cajun]

01:01 AM on 10/14/2011

No, not everyone goes to college, or pursues other higher education, or wants to. However, those of us who do are financially better off than those of you who do not. This horrible recession we are having, with our 9.1% official unemployment--actually it is really closer to 15% when you count the discouraged, underemployed, and those who can only find part-time jobs. For those with AT LEAST a bachelors degree the unemployment rate is only 4%. I believe a good, dedicated mother deserves recognition, as does a good, dedicated father. I also believe a good dedicated mother and a good dedicated father would wait until they were old enough to at least legally drink before having children! A good dedicated parent would wait until he/she had earned enough education to be financially secure, in a stable marriage and committed to being married and creating a stable, loving home until each child was at least 21----if they had any desire to divorce, it would wait until the child was of age and nurtured. A dedicated mother would honor herself by not becoming a young/teen mother and she would enjoy her teen years and her early adult years. She would spend these vital years educating herself, growing, working, traveling and doing the things of youth. Then in her late 20s or 30s or 40s she would have children as she would be financially secure and mature enough to be a dedicated mother.

[gantsld]

09:41 AM on 10/13/2011

I guess there aren't many of us left who just have good 'ole fashioned values. Call me judgemental, but I don't see anything so great about it. Why because she's a fashion model? Does that make it somehow ok? And I am tired of people saying that it's what God intended. Yes, children are a gift from God, but I don't think he intended for such a beautiful gift to be raised in broken homes. I work at a high school so I see how such a situation would affect a child. I work at a predominately african-american high school that is economically disadvantaged, and guess what? A large percent of our children are being raised without a father in the home, the mothers are fairly young, or they are being raised by a grandparent. Some of them cannot read or write very well. It's a really sad situation. So for someone to make this a headline and make it seem like it's ok. Really, it's not. We are in a sad state of a downspiraling in morality.

[liberalbarbwire]

07:53 PM on 10/09/2011

ok i this supposed to be a big deal.. i'm sure shes not the first and i.m sure she wont be the last...

[Aitch5]

05:30 PM on 10/09/2011

Who is the Daddy?

[LeftLeanWing]

08:54 AM on 10/14/2011

FlavaFlav

[January James]

09:24 PM on 10/08/2011

so pretty so young so dayum dumb!

[Susan Shaffer]

07:23 PM on 10/09/2011

If she was 16 I might agree with you on the dumb part

[Shelly Santiago]

09:28 PM on 10/14/2011

Yet she will be able to take care of her child unlike most of the people in America today. If she is still working at 7 months pregnant ...she must be a hot item in the modeling world.

[Kym Lewis]

12:56 PM on 10/08/2011

Being pregnant wont make her any less beautiful.

[marisoldiaz]

05:54 AM on 10/09/2011

That is her business..probably a pill malfunction and s' la vie, its a life lesson she won't forget and it from now on handle properly it can bring joy and rewards, good look, from a career wise and womanhood perspective.

[Char den]

10:22 PM on 10/07/2011

JHuff68, you need that invisible sky man much more than you think. But, I guess ignorance is bliss untill it runs out. Then what?