""I was severely depressed," Neeley says in a video interview with TODAY.com. "I've never felt like that my entire life. I kind of just felt like my life was over. I had nothing to look forward to.""
""Something just switched inside of me," she explains. "Those feelings you feel when you have a baby are so magical that I just couldn't imagine life without him. He is what I was put on earth to do, even though I'm so young. I was like, 'This is my purpose.' He made my life make sense again.""
""I didn't want to become a mom that young. I was not ready. I'll just put it that way," she says."
By age 20, Mayci Neeley had been abused, drugged and raped by an ex-boyfriend. She later entered a relationship that felt healthy and became unintentionally pregnant, only to discover the boyfriend's infidelity. After sending angry texts, she received a final typoed message, "J.", and hours later learned he died in a car crash, which plunged her into severe depression. Neeley was a Division I tennis player at Brigham Young University and used partying to escape trauma. The birth of her son Hudson transformed her outlook, provided a sense of purpose, and family support helped her rebuild.
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