After Getting Pregnant, Teen Promised Parents She’d Keep Going to School. She Did – and Just Graduated

It was a rocky road to her high school graduation at times, but Fabiola Solis Cisneros and her family got there together

On Thursday, June 6, Fabiola Solis Cisneros walked across the Coalinga High School stage, making good on a promise she made to her family.

In 2022, Solis Cisneros, now 18, was almost done with her sophomore year when she discovered she was pregnant. She tells PEOPLE it was a rocky road for her and her dad, who was initially angry and disappointed in her.

But her resolve to continue her education after the birth of her son Xavier helped pave the way for reconciliation. And it doesn’t hurt that when her father picked her up from the hospital and saw his grandson for the first time he felt an instant connection. “It was love at first sight,” she says.