3. Loretta Lynn

Country singer Loretta Lynn didn’t have an easy life, and she isn’t ashamed of sharing it either. Her biography called the Coal Miner’s Daughter bares all the details. She writes in it that she was married at 13 and had 4 children by the time she was 18! (Some reports dispute this, saying she was 16 when she got married, but there’s no doubt she had multiple children as a teenager).

Lynn managed to take on motherhood, and life, by the horns, launching a famous and successful career. In 1972, she was the first woman to ever be honored with the Country Music Association’s “Entertainer of the Year” award.