

While visiting John, Ricky finds out about Anne’s pregnancy. Meanwhile, Ben decides he does not like Betty, with whom his father is seemingly in love, and expresses to Amy that he wants to have sex. Struggling to deal with motherhood, Amy suspects that Anne could be pregnant.

The second 12 episodes finished their run on March 22, 2010. Though marketed as the season finale, the mid season finale aired on September 7, 2009, with the second half of the season returning on January 4, 2010.

Season 2 began with 12 episodes broadcast starting June 22, 2009. The official press release was released on February 9 with ABC Family ordering 24 episodes for season two.
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Scroll through the gallery below to see what the cast has been up to since the show ended.This season follows Amy Juergens and Ricky as they juggle being teenage parents and their personal relationships, while their friends going through the pangs of high school.įollowing the success of its first season, ABC Family announced on January 31, 2009, plans to renew Secret Life, following the cancellation of its hit sci-fi TV show, Kyle XY. So to me, you guys actually feel like my, like, OG high school friends, which is kind of cool.”

“Even if lots of time has passed, and you see whether it’s kind of like no time has passed, because we just sort of had these formative years together. “We already feel like we’re actual high school friends,” Megan Park (Grace Bowman) said during the cast’s October 2020 virtual reunion. The Big Little Lies alum formed lasting friendships with her costars while shooting the show too. “And after reading for the role of Amy, when Shailene left the room, I said, ‘She is a star.’” “Before Shailene Woodley ever walked into the room to audition, I looked at her headshot, looked at Peter Pappas, who we can all thank for casting this show, and I said, ‘She looks like a star,’” creator Brenda Hampton told Entertainment Weekly in 2012. So being on Secret Life propelled me to be more vocal about my own belief systems.”ĭespite her negative experience behind the scenes, Woodley certainly made a lasting impression with her performance, from the time of her audition. To this day it’s one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do. “There were belief systems that were pushed that were different than my own. “There were a lot of things that were written into the scripts that not just me, but a lot of the cast, disagreed with,” she explained. However, Woodley’s opinions about the story lines changed as in later seasons she saw her character’s pregnancy become a cautionary tale while abstinence was encouraged. ‘The Secret Life of the American Teenager’ Cast: Where Are They Now? It felt like everything that I wanted to be sending into the world.” I had friends in high school who were pregnant. “When I signed onto Secret Life, I read episodes and I signed a contract for six years,” she revealed in an April 2020 interview with Bustle. The Emmy nominee appreciated the subject matter of The Secret Life of the American Teenager when she agreed to embody the lead character. from 2003 to 2004 and on a variety of other shows as a guest star. Woodley was not a novice when she landed the role that would propel her to stardom.
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The series followed Amy Juergens ( Shailene Woodley) as she handled pregnancy and parenthood while also struggling with everything that comes from being a high school student. The ABC Family drama aired for five seasons from July 2008 to June 2013. The series also made a household name out of one of the most sought-after actresses working today. The Secret Life of the American Teenager dealt with teen issues in a way perhaps never seen on a TV show before it.
