TOPPENISH, Wash. — A high school student who faked her pregnancy for six months as a social experiment stunned a student assembly this week by taking off the belly bundle.
Only a handful of people knew Gaby Rodriguez, 17, wasn’t pregnant, including her mom, boyfriend and the principal, according to the Yakima Herald- Republic. They kept the secret from some of her siblings, her boyfriend’s family, students and teachers, all as part of a senior project on stereotyping.
Before the revelation, she asked several students and teachers to read quotes people said about her during the course of her experiment.
“Her attitude is changing, and it might be because of the baby or she was always this annoying and I never realized it,” read her best friend, Saida Cortes.
It grew quiet in the gym as more and more quotes were read aloud. Then Rodriguez dropped her bomb: “I’m fighting against those stereotypes and rumors because the reality is I’m not pregnant.”
“In essence, she gave up her senior year,” said principal Trevor Greene. “She sacrificed her senior year to find out what it would be like to be a potential teen mom.”
