'I'm pregnant!': Escaping Polygamy star Ariel, 19, reveals she's with child... 11 months after fleeing Utah church 

By Heidi Parker For Dailymail.com

Published: 16:35 EST, 31 January 2017 | Updated: 16:37 EST, 31 January 2017

A teen from the A&E TV series Escaping Polygamy: After the Escape is pregnant.

On Tuesday's episode, 19-year-old Ariel confesses she is with child.

Ariel delivers the news to her friend and mentor Kollene during a face-to-face meeting. 

Pregnant teen: Ariel reveals she's pregnant on Tuesday's episode of A&E TV series Escaping Polygamy: After the Escape

Eleven months earlier she had helped the women escape the Salt Lake City–based Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS).

In a preview for Tuesday's episode, we see Kollene driving to the house Ariel shares with Vanna. 'When we left Vanna and Ariel, I wasn't really worried about Ariel, but I was worried about Vanna because she left a little brother that she truly believed needed her,' said Kollene.

'She left a family and a religion that she still believed in. And that worried me because, would she go back?

Shock: Ariel (left) delivers the news to her friend and mentor Kollene during a face-to-face meeting

The moment: Ariel says frankly: 'I'm pregnant.' The father is not named. Kollene looks shocked

'I hope they're OK. It's weird that they would want me to come over, and they couldn't talk to me over the phone.'

 Kollene then arrives at the girls' home and gets the shocking news.

Ariel says frankly: 'I'm pregnant.'

The father is not named. Kollene looks shocked. 

Exiting church life: Eleven months earlier she had helped the women escape the Salt Lake City–based Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS)

Ariel was first seen at age 18 when she said the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was 'fun' but had become too much for her. 

'The reason why I want to leave is because it's not the same — it's not like it used to be,' she noted.

'There's no marriages. There's no intimate relationship with the man and wife that are married. You're not allowed to give hugs — you can only shake hands.

'One of the big things that's happened — splitting up families.'

Escaping Polygamy: After the Escape's first of four hour-long episodes airs on A&E Tuesday at 10 p.m. ET.

 

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