Monday, March 16, 2009

Amy Juergens



Amy Juergens, played by (Shailene Woodley), is the daughter of George and Anne Juergens and is the older sister of Ashley Juergens. She is fifteen years old, and is pregnant with school's bad boy Ricky's baby, after a one night stand at band camp. At first she doesn't want anything to do with him, but Ricky then takes responsibility for what happens to this baby and does get involved. She has a boyfriend Ben, and Ben asks her to marry him so he can help Amy. The two get married with fake id's but is not legal. As her pregnancy proceeds Amy gets mixed feelings for Ben and Ricky. It was just revealed that Amy finally decides to keep the baby, and has a job at the church's daycare, which provides insurance. On the day of her baby shower she goes into labor.

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Amy Juergens is the pregnant fifteen year old daughter of George and Anne Juergens and the elder sister of Ashley Juergens. She is in the ninth grade at Ulysses S. Grant High School where she plays the French horn in the school marching band and dreams of attending Julliard[1]. The summer before her freshman year Amy attended band camp where she lost her virginity in a one night stand with band mate Ricky Underwood. In the show's premiere episode, Amy discovers she has become pregnant from this encounter. Upon returning to school, Amy also begins a relationship with Ben Boykevich, a highly supportive classmate with whom she falls in love.

Amy struggles to balance a teenage life with pregnancy and to find a way to provide the best possible life for her child once it is born. After she was unable to follow through with an abortion, Amy planned to move in with her grandmother and attend school while "Mimsy" took care of the child. When it was discovered that Mimsy had Alzheimer's disease, Amy hoped that her mother would take care of the baby, but Anne refused. Amy then planned to marry Ben and raise the child together, but the couple's parents intervened.

Around this time, Amy and Ben's relationship became strained after Amy refused to consider allowing Ben at doctor's appointments, birthing classes, or the baby's birth. Although Amy originally wanted Ben to be involved with the baby, she becomes angry and frustrated with Ben's attempts to control her and Ricky's decisions about raising the child together, causing Ben to tell her he needed space. With encouragement from her mother, Amy agrees to consider adoption so that she can pursue a relationship with Ben without worrying about creating a family for her child. Amy learns she will have a boy and agrees to give her son to family friends Donovan and Leon, a gay couple, but the adoption is sabotaged by Ricky. Finally, with encouragement from her friends and family Amy decides to keep her son in episode 20, "Maybe Baby".

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