{"id":5021,"date":"2025-09-08T18:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T18:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=5021"},"modified":"2025-09-08T18:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T18:44:08","slug":"she-refused-an-abortion-at-17-and-her-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=5021","title":{"rendered":"She Refused An Abortion At 17 And Her Son"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>A Painful Past<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pattie Mallette, mother of Justin Bieber, has lived through struggles that shaped her into who she is today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a teenager, she endured years of sexual abuse, which left her with shame and self-blame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou carry this shame and feel like there\u2019s something inherently wrong with you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I definitely carried that burden,\u201d she shared in her memoir&nbsp;<em>Nowhere But Up<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/innerstrength.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/9a-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-86348\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Breaking Point<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The trauma, combined with depression and substance abuse, pushed her to attempt suicide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was the result of years of abuse, coupled with depression and substance abuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drugs and alcohol only made things worse. It was a breaking point,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Choosing Life<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At 17, Mallette became pregnant and faced pressure to have an abortion. Instead, she chose to keep her baby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/innerstrength.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/9b-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-86347\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A Precious Sound<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She recalled hearing Justin cry for the first time: \u201cthe most precious sound I\u2019ve ever heard.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That choice gave her son the chance to become a global star.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Painful Past Pattie Mallette, mother of Justin Bieber, has lived through struggles that shaped her into who she is today. As a teenager, she endured years of sexual abuse, which left her with shame and self-blame. \u201cYou carry this shame and feel like there\u2019s something inherently wrong with you. I definitely carried that burden,\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5023,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5021\/revisions\/5023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}