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  • 13-Year-Old Father Alfie Patten Isn’t What He Thought He Was, DNA Tests Prove

    Alfie Patten, who in 2012 broke UK records by becoming a 13-year-old father, was recently discovered not to be the father of the baby of Chantelle Steadman, his then 15-year-old girlfriend. DNA tests have reportedly proven that Alfie isn’t the father of Maisie Roxanne, the supposed result of the one time he and Steadman had sex during their relationship.

    After several boys claimed to have had sex with Chantelle, Alfie’s mother Nicola Patten was able to convince him to take a DNA test, explaining that it would establish his paternity over Maisie. The results showing he wasn’t the baby’s father apparently devastated Alfie. “When we told Alfie the baby wasn’t his he was absolutely hysterical. He burst out crying and then he ran out of the room,” said Nicola. “It was a lot to deal with for an adult, let alone someone his age. But he dealt with it brilliantly.”

    “When I found out about the DNA I was sad at first. I suppose if you want something that badly you make yourself ­believe it’s true,” said Alfie, who is now 15 years old. “But I just moved on. Family helped. Friends helped.”

    The test also reportedly proved that Alfie was and still is a virgin, said Nicola. Alfie’s mother also claimed that he wanted to stay that way until he was 18 years old.

    Back in 2012, Alfie made headlines when he was announced to be a father at age 13. His face has even been used on some condoms being sold on the Internet and Alfie became a subject talked about in places such as Parliament and news shows. Now that DNA results have shown that Alfie wasn’t a father after all, the boy’s life is once again under scrutiny.

    “I don’t want a girl to be ashamed to take him home to meet her parents because they’ll think he was the one who got a girl pregnant when he was 12,” said Nicola.

  • Rosario Dawson Plays Vanessa Hudgens’ Mom in Film

    Rosario Dawson Plays Vanessa Hudgens’ Mom in Film

    Rosario Dawson plays Vanessa Hudgens‘ character’s mom in the new film Gimme Shelter. Hudgens plays the role of a pregnant homeless teenager with Dawson as her incredibly abusive crack addicted mother.

    During a recent interview with Yahoo, Dawson dished about how this role was very different from those she typically plays, and not in the least bit glamorous.

    “That was the challenge and what drew me to this, playing Vanessa Hudgens’ mother,” she said. “We both had to really go for it, and if she hadn’t gone all the way, what I was doing would just seem cartoonish and vice versa. When we were going to do this, we were on our way to Cannes – and talk about indulgence and all the glamour, beauty, partying on boats, fabulous dresses and so on! – and suddenly we’re in this motel and I’m barefoot and I’m attacking her, and we’re in it. But that’s what you want as an actor, to challenge yourself.”

    Dawson is almost unrecognizable in this role in Gimme Shelter.

    Rosario admitted that some of the film’s content hit home with her–taking her to some fairly dark and unusual places in her past.

    “We’re doing a fight scene and they’re actually fighting me! It was really painful. So you do put your own life into it,” she explained. “My mom was just 16 when she got pregnant with me, and I never knew my biological father. He didn’t choose to be in my life. And then my step-dad stepped in and married my mom when I was one, so I always grew up with a dad . And my grandmother, who raised five kids on her own, could easily have told my mom, ‘You got pregnant – get out of my house!’ But she didn’t, even though she was mad, upset and disappointed. She was scared for my mom and me, but also kept her door open and kept us in. So this film is so close to home for me for so many reasons. My mom also worked in a shelter, in San Francisco, when I was 10, where they took in abused women and their kids. And I grew up in New York in the 80s and 90s and there was this big crack epidemic.”

    Rosario Dawson has family members who became crack addicts–as she plays in Gimme Shelter–and lost everything they had to the addiction.

    “I have family members who suffered crack addiction and lost their entire families and careers and children from it. So all that drew me to doing this film,” she said.

    Gimme Shelter with Rosario Dawson and Vanessa Hudgens is likely to shed new light on to both of these actors. Hopefully it sheds light on the crack epidemic and the plight of the homeless, too. It is currently playing in theaters nationwide.

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