She was born into a world that expected her to lose. Raised in the unforgiving shadows of the projects, her childhood was marked by survival, not softness. Her mother - strict, cold, and controlling - believed discipline was the only way to shield her from the streets. But for a girl yearning to breathe, love, and simply be seen, that kind of love felt more like a cage than protection.College was her first taste of freedom - two years of possibility, independence, and a glimpse of the life she'd always dreamed of. She was finally becoming someone beyond her past. But the moment she returned home, reality came crashing in. Instead of a new beginning, she found herself caught in a different kind of prison: pregnant by an emotionally and physically abusive boyfriend, her dreams slipping through her fingers once again.Now forced to navigate a life she never planned for, she faces impossible choices - about motherhood, identity, safety, and healing. As she confronts the pain of her upbringing, the betrayal of love, and the weight of generational wounds, she begins to ask the question she's always buried: Who am I, outside of everything I've survived?Becoming Her is a deeply emotional coming-of-age story about the invisible battles young women fight in silence - and the quiet, relentless power it takes to reclaim yourself when the world tries to write your story for you.