"Whale Rider" Kid Star Preggers

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"Whale Rider" Kid Star Preggers
By Gina Serpe

Let's hope she's taking home ec this semester.


Oscar-nominated actress Keisha Castle-Hughes, 16, is reportedly expecting a child with her boyfriend of three years, Bradley Hull, 19.


The Whale Rider star is due this spring with what will be her first child, according to People. There's no word yet on the sex of the baby.


Castle-Hughes reportedly began dating Hull three years ago--but for what it's worth, she has already lived quite an accelerated decade and a half.


In 2002, at just 12 years old, she made her acting debut in the art-house hit Whale Rider, a big screen adaptation of a Maori legend following a girl who worked against the gender conventions of her tribe to fulfill her destiny as chief.


The following year, Castle-Hughes was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar at the tender age of 13, becoming the youngest person in Academy history to receive a nomination in the category.


Earlier that same year, the New Zealand native began dating Hull, whom she met while attending high school. At the time he told Australia's Age newspaper that he didn't attend the Oscar ceremony because "her people don't want me there."


"Maybe it's the age thing," the then-17-year-old said of his then-14-year-old girlfriend. "And she's real mature for her age--sometimes it's like she's 30."


Castle-Hughes will likely take some postpartum time off. But in the meantime, the actress, who most recently appeared as the Queen of Naboo in last year's Star Wars: Episode III--Revenge of the Sith, has got several films to promote.


She recently finished filming Nativity for New Line, where she will star as young mother Mary in the story of the birth of Jesus. Call it a trial run.


Castle-Hughes stars opposite 24's Shohreh Aghdashloo, who plays Elizabeth, Mary's mother, in the film, due out in time for Christmas.


She's also set to star alongside fellow Down Under native Toni Collette in Hey, Hey, It's Esther Blueberger, a coming-of-age story centering on a 13-year-old girl who tries to fit into both posh private and run-of-the-mill public schools.


Shooting hopefully starts soon.

[Xray]

That was a pretty good movie too. It turns out she's not too bright becoming pregnant at 16. What is wrong with Hollywood????

[wildwood]

61, Awful news......Keisha should have been more careful.......