Kelly Healey, a mother-of-five who became Britain’s youngest grandmother at age 30, after her 14-year-old daughter gave birth, has spoken out about discovering she was about to become a granny and somehow the youngest one in the UK.

Kelly’s teenage daughter, Skye Salter gave birth to a baby boy, Bailey in August 2018.

According to Kelly, she offered her daughter “love and support” because “what was done was done”. However, she said she never expected to find out she was going to be a grandmother so young.

Speaking to The Sun, she said: ‘I never expected to find out I would become a nan while still in my 20s.

‘But there was no point in yelling at Skye about contraception and safe intimate relationship. What was done was done.

‘All I could do was offer love and support. As a mum, you just deal with these things.

‘I act like I’m in my early 20s, so it doesn’t feel right to be a granny.

‘My friends think it’s hilarious I’ve got a grandson. He’s always getting mistaken for my son.’ 

Skye was living in Cranford, West London when she took a test and discovered she was pregnant in 2018.

She was rushed to Isleworth’s West Middlesex Hospital for an ultrasound, where doctors discovered she was already 36 weeks and four days pregnant.

The adolescent had been coitus and took the test as a precaution before getting the contraceptive implant.

Skye was taken aback by the news, and doctors advised her that because she found out about the pregnancy so late, ‘an abortion was not an option.’.

Skye, now 17, recalls: ‘I was stunned. I had a secret feeling I might be pregnant which is why I’d suggested the test. The dad is a local lad around my own age. 

‘I couldn’t believe it. I was potentially days off becoming a mum. Just weeks earlier I had been doing PE and climbing up and downhills.

‘Of course, finding out I was pregnant so late meant abortion wasn’t an option.

‘But I couldn’t have done that anyway. Seeing my baby’s heartbeat on the screen, my heart filled with love.

‘I knew from that point onwards I would always take second place, and my baby boy would take first.’

Meanwhile,  Ms. Healey revealed that her own mother doesn’t feel ‘ready’ to be a great-grandmother at just 48.

She told the newspaper: I’m not sure my mum was ready to be a great-gran at 48, though. I think that makes her the youngest great-gran in the UK, too.’

It comes as mother-of-three Gemma Skinner is believed to have become Britain’s youngest grandma at 33 after her 17-year-old daughter gave birth last October.

Ms. Skinner, whose daughter Maizie gave birth to a little girl, said she was mistaken for the baby’s aunt by nurses in the hospital.

The mother-of-three from Amersham, Buckinghamshire, told The Sun: ‘At first I didn’t want to be called ‘nan’ or ‘granny’ — but now I’m loving it.’

Ms. Skinner said that she is having a great time taking her new granddaughter out and about, with everyone thinking that she is the girl’s mother.

She has three daughters of her own with her youngest, four-year-old Bella, also becoming an auntie with the birth of the new baby.

Source: dailymail.co.uk