Molly O’Malia, a 14-year-old girl, told press Monday night that Tyga contacted her first on Instagram with hopes that it was about her music since she is an aspiring model and singer. She quickly got uncomfortable when he surprisingly did not mention her music at all and instead, repeatedly asked her to Facetime him after rejecting his offer three times. O’Malia eventually stopped replying because of her discomfort with why he wanted to communicate with her. She spoke through her tears as her lawyer, Gloria Allred, comforted her throughout the press conference, ending with: “because I don’t want what happened to me to happen to any other young girl.”
But that wasn’t the only reason why the young girl came forward. Last month, OK! Magazine published a tabloid story on their cover page claiming that O’Malia and Tyga had a sexual relationship. Not only that, but they also published O’Malia’s blurred out selfie and the exchanged messages between the two. She felt the need to come forward after the false accusations. There was a lot of buzz around Tyga when his relationship with Kylie Jenner became known to the world. The two were clearly a thing while Kylie was underage because as soon as she turned 18, they didn’t bother to hide their PDA anymore.
So where does Tyga draw the line? In the past, James Franco was also in a similar situation where he DM’d a message on Instagram to an underage girl. Is dating underage girls okay as long as they look older? There is a reason why the law protects minors from being in a relationship with people older than them… because their mentalities are different. When you’re 14, you’re still figuring out life. You don’t know who you are yet, you have so much to experience, you’re so eager about everything. And unfortunately, you’re also easy to manipulate. When I was 14, I was a naïve young girl. (Now, that’s not to say that every teenager is naïve and doesn’t know who they are because that isn’t true.) But there is a huge difference between being 14/15/16 years old and being 26. I’m sure most people can agree that you learn and grow a lot within those years. I cannot sympathize with men who willingly get into romantic relationships with minors and continue on a similar path. Regardless of whether Tyga cheated on Kylie or not is irrelevant to me and doesn’t pertain to what the tabloid story has done to O’Malia. We have a 14-year-old girl who has to hold a press conference for the media to hear her side of the story; a story she never had control over. A story that told false accusations and produced a very harmful story about a minor. I’m very proud of her for coming forward and doing this, because who knows who else this is happening to?
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