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News: 33 y.o Woman Pretends To Be High School Student
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33 y.o Woman Pretends To Be High School Student
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Why One Woman Pretended to Be a High-School Cheerleader
At 33, Wendy Brown stole her daughter’s name, grabbed a pair of pom-poms, lived a teenage dream—then she went to jail for it.
On September 2, 2008, a shy, blonde transfer student strolled into Ashwaubenon High School in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The petite sophomore wore a pink hoodie and carried a new school bag decorated with hearts, eager to start the new term. But just 16 days later, she was standing in court wearing an orange prison jumpsuit and shackles, charged with identity theft. There, prosecutors revealed that Wendy Brown was not really 15, but a 33-year-old mother of two—who had stolen her teenage daughter’s identity in an attempt to relive her own high school days. In her weeks as a student, Brown had taken classes with students half her age. She had tried out for the Ashwaubenon High School cheerleading squad and even attended a pool party thrown by the cheer coach.
Television crews surrounded the courthouse and besieged Brown’s family at their home in Nevada. “It was bad,” recalls her father, Joe. “Every show that’s on in the morning called. … Oprah didn’t call. She was the only one that didn’t call.”
A bespectacled Brown spoke like a teenager as she addressed the court: “I just wanted to say that I’m sorry for what I’ve done,” she said softly. “I feel bad about it. And I regret it. Um, I always have … I am not a bad person. I just made a mistake.”
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Oh my lord, you have to read the whole story. Bitch got onto the cheer squad and went to a party
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Literally how? She doesn't look remotely like a teenager.
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In what world does she look 14-18?
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Did she finally get kissed at the end?
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I've seen some ugly mother ****ers in my day. She could've definitely passed as a horse girl in my tenth-grade English class
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Brown says her husband took her to the mall to buy school clothes. (She says he was in on it, even encouraging her plan, but the judge later said that her husband had “no idea.”) She selected a fashionable Esprit shoulder bag. Then she flicked through racks of jeans and Levi’s clothing in the junior section. She weighed 103 pounds and wore a petite size. Brown tried on a pair of Nike shoes, the brand she always bought her own children. But the real trick was the voice. “I just did that little valley girl thing, the California thing,” Wendy says. In the coffee shop, she transforms her voice into an up-speaking teen’s. It is disquieting.
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On August 8, 2008, Johnson invited the cheerleaders to a pool party at her home. Brown was a ball of nerves. It had been 19 years since she was first a sophomore. Katy Perry now dominated the Hot 100. When she arrived, the cheerleaders were catching rays in tiny two-piece suits, enjoying the fading Wisconsin summer. Brown, anxious about the stretch marks from her pregnancies, wore a one-piece underneath a t-shirt, an outfit that she says puzzled the other girls.
“I told [them] the reason I had the T-shirt on, you know, was that I used to be really fat. I lost all the weight,” she says.
“She’s just shy, leave her alone,” Brown recalls a cheerleader saying.
Then she jumped in the pool. Brown tried her best to fit in, playing volleyball, and copying how the other girls nibbled at the cheese, pepperoni, and sausage pizzas.
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In homeroom, Brown remembers, the teacher had to call “Jaimi” three times before she remembered to say she was present.
“You’re daydreaming, huh?” Brown recalls the teacher saying. “That’s okay. It’s your first day? And you’re new here?”
Brown nodded. One of the cheerleaders from the pool party was in the same homeroom and greeted her enthusiastically. “She said, ‘Oh my god, we have the same schedule! Oh my god, we’re in the same classes!’”
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Under questioning, Brown admitted that she “wanted to get her high school degree and be a cheerleader because she had no childhood and was trying to regain a part of her life she missed.” News of her confession spread through the school at roughly 300 times the speed of regular high school gossip. “[I’m] still kinda like in shock,” wrote cheerleader Kelci Ashton on Facebook, on September 18, the day Wendy Brown first appeared in court. The press had a field day. “Pom-Pom Mom Goes To Extreme,” read a CBS headline. “Mom, that's my cheerleading outfit!” joked New York Daily News. Newspapers as far away as England ran with the story. “Everything was just done,” Brown says, tearfully. “It was devastating. I just wanted to get in a hole and die.” She would never cheer at a competitive game.
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This lady is insane
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She looks britneys age I have no idea how she got away with it for over 2 weeks
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A home pregnancy test registered negative, but her mom and a doctor insisted on an ultrasound. “You’re pregnant,” he confirmed. “Four months.”
Brown’s boyfriend abandoned her instantly, but not before telling everyone at school. The kids threw paper at her, pushed her around. She could take the bullying no longer. “I wanted to get my high school diploma,” Brown says, “but there was just too much going on.” She quit, and on her 17th birthday, she gave birth to baby Joey, named after her father. Three months later she became pregnant again with a baby girl, Jaimi, this time by another boy.
In the meantime, she watched her younger sister, Jennifer, effortlessly rise through the school’s social ecosystem. “I hated her,” Brown says, “She got everything that I wanted. I was extremely jealous of her.” Seeing Jennifer wear the Bulldogs black and gold cheerleader’s uniform, she says, was enough to break her heart.
Drifting into her 20s, Brown held a series of short-term jobs at Kmart and Wal-Mart; she poured bad coffee at fast-food restaurants. Her longest period of employment, the court later heard, “was as a stripper.” It was a life spent on the move, transporting the kids from Texas, to Michigan, to Nevada, and back to Illinois, where she married a man in June of 2006.
Six months after their wedding day, she says the violence started. They moved to Cass County, Illinois, where the police chief, Tom Osmer, told the local paper that the police were frequently called to the couple’s home. A neighbor told the Galesburg Register-Mail in 2008, “[He] knocked all the windows out when he got mad at her.”
The couple moved to Green Bay in August of 2008 looking for a fresh start. Brown had an old friend there, and it was far enough from Illinois to leave their pasts behind. They rented a small apartment on Willard Drive, so close to the football fields of Ashwaubenon High School that you can hear the coach’s whistle at practice. Due to the violence and instability at home, Wendy says her two kids, by then teenagers, moved to Nevada to live with her parents, Joe and Judith. “I had a breakdown,” she admits. It was the lowest moment of her life.
And when she looked out her window she saw a high school, the place where it all went wrong.
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this is kind of sad tbh
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She doesn't look like any teen I knew back at school but okay
I take back my drag but girl... high school isn't that great
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She obviously has issues with her past and I'm glad she got the mental health services she needed but I honestly don't know how this happened in the first place.
Her daughter stopped talking to the mom after this too. The bitch just can't win.
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Originally posted by Callisto.
Did she finally get kissed at the end?
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A+ Reference
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This is hugely sad. I feel for her.
I hope she isn't in jail for long, I mean I get what she did was wrong and creepy but there's much worser crimes in the world. And she clearly just has a few emotional problems and wasn't looking to harm or hurt anybody
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Originally posted by Koons
This is hugely sad. I feel for her.
I hope she isn't in jail for long, I mean I get what she did was wrong and creepy but there's much worser crimes in the world. And she clearly just has a few emotional problems and wasn't looking to harm or hurt anybody
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MTE.
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Originally posted by Koons
This is hugely sad. I feel for her.
I hope she isn't in jail for long, I mean I get what she did was wrong and creepy but there's much worser crimes in the world. And she clearly just has a few emotional problems and wasn't looking to harm or hurt anybody
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true. this part especially broke my heart:
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“What was I gonna steal?” she asks. “Kids’ lunch boxes?” Instead, she says, it was to fulfill a dream that was crushed many years ago. Wendy had a speech impediment—she pronounced rabbit like “wabbit”—which led to bullying, and fights. Speech therapists uncovered deeper issues at home. “Brown has a long standing history of significant emotional problems,” a judge later concluded, after reviewing evidence. “They stem primarily from her relationship with her mother, which is very abusive.” Brown explains: “We fought all the time. … She put me down, said things about me, I got hit a lot.”
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this is kind of sad tbh
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You're right. The fact she's trying to create a better high school experience than the one she had
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Originally posted by Koons
This is hugely sad. I feel for her.
I hope she isn't in jail for long, I mean I get what she did was wrong and creepy but there's much worser crimes in the world. And she clearly just has a few emotional problems and wasn't looking to harm or hurt anybody
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Yeah she needs to get some help for her life cause she clearly is struggling all around.
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Damn, this story is half sad half mess, kii, cackle
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