The daughter of famous pastor T.D Jakes is sharing her story of teen pregnancy, infidelity in marriage and growing up as a preacher's daughter in her new book.
According to the Grio, Sarah Jakes is sharing details of her life with readers to show that everyone makes mistakes.
"Outside of wanting to know what would be the ministry legacy that you would create from your last name, they also wanted you to know that everything needed to be perfect." Jakes said.
Her marriage to NFL linebacker Robert Henson endured a lot of trouble when she discovered that he was cheating on her, which ended with the couple divorcing after four years of marriage. She also shared how her pregnancy made he feel like a black sheep in the church.
"In my case, you're pregnant at 14, your stomach is growing, you're sitting in a church, within service and people want to know who the father is and how it all happened," she said. "I mean that pressure very much made me want to hide and I became comfortable being an introvert."
She also shares how she wrote a letter and left it in the family's mailbox to deliver the news about her pregnancy.
"My parents were speechless," she said. I mean, my father was a preacher, who speaks for a living, and he was speechless," Jakes said. "And that's when it dawned on me that this was so much bigger than being grounded. [I was] bringing a life into the world and while I certainly had other options, whether abortions or adoptions, there was something inside of me that said I could do it."
Source: thegrio.com
