Before the MTV series 16 and Pregnant, we had Fifteen & Pregnant. A film starring the then 15-year-old actress is based on a true story of Tina Spangler, a girl who is abandoned by her boyfriend when she discovers she is pregnant and must deal with life as a single parent.
In 1996's Lifetime fave Mother, May I Sleep with Danger, Spelling plays Laurel, a young girl who must struggle to escape the mountain cabin in which her serial killer boyfriend is holding her captive.
Bates earned an Emmy nod for her performance in Ambulance Girl as former food writer Jane Stern, who conquered clinical depression after becoming a paramedic.
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