In fact, Karamo loved being a dad so much that he asked for full custody of Jason, now 29, six months later.
“This is what I respect about her as a mother and as a woman. She understood that my son needed his father,” Karamo explained, “and that because of a choice she had made, I missed years.”
“But I said, ‘You did it all, now let me take the stress off of you,’” he added. “And I got full custody of my son and raised him.”
And though the culture expert—who adopted Jason’s half-brother, Christian, 26, a year later—was bummed to have missed out on so many years with his son, he ultimately had nothing but gratitude for Stephanie’s decision.
“I didn’t fault her for making a choice because I was able to go to school, do things, to provide for us,” he said. “Now, we’ve all got a great life because of her choice. If we would have both been teen parents, I don’t know where we would have been.”
