Wendy Davis successfully blocked anti-abortion legislation last night during a 11 plus hour filibuster without a bathroom break or leaning on the podium, but she's got a history as a teen mom herself.

The 50-year-old state senator disrupted the legislative gathering long enough to block abortion regulations, which would have marred abortion laws in the state moving forward.

She helped care for her three siblings as the daughter of a single mother herself when she was just 14-years-old. At a time when most kids are in college, Davis also had a daughter as a single mother.

"She's a total fighter," said Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Action Fund and daughter of the late former Texas governor Ann Richards told USA Today.

"And the thing about Senator Davis, she says she's going to do something, she gets it done."

After hearing about a paralegal program from her co-workers at 19, she became the first member of to go to college.

At the time, she was in a trailer park and raising her daughter all by herself, something anti-abortion activists cannot shun as they fight her recent actions.

She told the New York Times of that time in her life, "We were the working poor."

Wendy clerked for a federal judge, practiced law and was a CEO before running for Fort Worth City Council in 1999.

She unseated a longtime Republican incumbent in a 2008 election for state senator from Fort Worth and won "Rookie of the Year" by Texas Monthly magazine before winning re-election in 2012.

After filibustering for 11 hours, it seemed like Wendy Davis' last ditch effort to block the abortion regulations would be all for naught.

But with 12 minutes to go before the deadline would pass to vote on the measure, state Sen. Leticia Van De Putte asked, "At what point must a female senator raise her hand or her voice to be recognized over her male colleagues?"

That when the crowd of protestors outside went into hyperdrive with their voices effectively rendering a vote impossible.

Asked whether she was worried about the political backlash after a successful filibuster of then-governor Rick Perry's budget that would have slashed $4 million in funding for education, Davis responded to the New York Times:

"I've never worried about payback. People are hungry for leadership that's not afraid of political consequence."