Keeping it real.

Bachelor Nation star Amanda Stanton and her husband Michael Fogel got married in 2023 and welcomed their first child together last year. 

As Bachelor Nation fans know, Amanda already had two daughters, Kinsley and Charlie, from a previous marriage.

Now, the Bachelor Nation star is taking to social media to get candid about the difference between having babies at 21 and 24 years old versus 33 years old.

Amanda started off the video by saying, “A lot people ask me if it was hard being pregnant in my early 20s because most of my friends were in a very different phase of life. My sister was actually in college at the time and honestly, it never bothered me. I’ve always been kind of a homebody. I never felt left out or wished that I was doing something different.”

She shared, “The only thing is, I felt like my friends didn’t understand if I couldn’t make it to something or [was] ever flaky. I feel like having a kid at 33 was nice because all of my friends either have kids or were having kids at the same time as me. Even though it was never something that bothered me in my 20s, it was really nice to be able to talk to all my close friends about mom stuff this time around.”

Then when she got pregnant at 33, she said that people scared her about pregnancy and postpartum in her 30s by telling her it would be much harder.

Those comments bothered Amanda and she shared, “I tried to ignore the comments, but I do think sometimes they caused me a little bit of stress, especially postpartum. And I can now tell you that was not the case. I’m actually in the best shape now that I’ve ever been. Those types of comments bothered me even if some were true. I had a lot more energy in my early 20s. I was still tired, but if I don’t get sleep for one night now, I cannot function the next day.”

She opened up about some of the differences between having kids in two different decades of life, saying that she felt anxious and insecure having kids in her early 20s because other parents “judged me for being so young.”

And now in her 30s, Amanda said, “I now know how fast time flies, so I really soak in every moment. Having kids in my early 20s, I feel like I grew up with them. I know some people want to be fully settled down before having kids, but for me, growing up with them created such a special bond that I could never replicate.”

But at the end of the day, the mom of three said, “There isn’t one age to be pregnant that I prefer over the other. No matter what age you are, don’t let people scare you. You’re a great mom and you’re doing amazing.”