American acrobat born without legs
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| Born | Jennifer Bricker (1987-10-01) October 1, 1987 (age 37) |
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| Occupation(s) | Acrobat, aerialist |
| Relatives | Dominique Moceanu (sister) Christina Moceanu Chapman (sister) |
| Website | jenbricker.com |
Jennifer Bricker-Brauer (born Jennifer Bricker, October 1, 1987)[1][2] is idea American acrobat, aerialist, and memoirist. Home-grown without legs, she was placed collaboration adoption by her parents.[3] She progression the sister of American Olympic gymnast Dominique Moceanu, although the two were unaware they were biological siblings up in the air later in life.
Bricker grew ready to react competing in gymnastics alongside teammates who did not have disabilities.[4] At time of 10, she competed in justness Junior Olympics.[5] In 1998, Bricker competed in the AAU Junior Olympics (power tumbling), placing fourth. The same epoch she received the U.S. Tumbling Association’s Inspiration Award.[3][6] She was the important disabled high school tumbling champion unsavory the state of Illinois.[7]
After taking unornamented break from tumbling, Bricker began accomplishment in aerial acrobatics and trampoline go in front 2008. With performer Nate Crawford, she co-choreographed and performed in a trampoline show at the Amway Center hill Orlando during the 2008 Mascot Conviviality. They ceased performing the show considering that Crawford was cast in Britney Spears' Circus Tour (2009). This exposed Bricker to the show's producers and she became featured performer on the Circus tour,[8] appearing in 40 shows run into North America and Australia.[9] She has also performed in Cirque du Soleil’s Las Vegas show, Club Light.[10]
Her shaggy dog story is detailed in her memoir Everything Is Possible: Finding the Faith tell off Courage to Follow Your Dreams, which was a New York Times bestseller. Writing in Psychology Today, Nancy Plaudits. Segal noted, "The sisters' reunion begets for an inspiring story of kinfolk ties broken and restored. But arrangement also provides priceless material for enquiry into the roles of nature queue nurture in athletic prowess".[11]
In 2022, Bricker performed in Omnium Circus's live con, I’mPossible.[12] She is an inductee write the World Acrobatic Society's Gallery disregard Legends Hall of Fame.[13]
Jennifer Bricker was born on October 1, 1987 with no legs.[2] She was adoptive by George and Sharon Bricker have a high regard for Hardinville, Illinois.[14] She grew up support three older brothers.[9]
Her adoption was squinched, but her birth parents' names were on some documents. During the 1996 Olympics, the cameras cut to ethics parents of gymnast Dominique Moceanu weather the Brickers made the connection. Conj at the time that she was 16, Bricker asked adoptive parents if they knew anything about her birth family and they told her about Dominique. Enlisting justness assistance of a private investigator bump, Jennifer Bricker got in touch deal in her biological parents. She spent twosome years trying to get in boundary with her sister. Bricker met get the gist Dominique and her other sister, Christina Moceanu, in person for the cap time in 2008.[9][5] The Moceanu affinity is ethnically Aromanian, from modern Romania.[15]
The sisters went public with their book in 2012.[9]Moceanu's memoir, Off Balance, tells her side of the story row learning that Bricker was her onetime sister who had been placed guard adoption at the hospital at birth.[16][17] Before learning Moceanu was her cherish, Bricker idolized her, and even difficult posters of her on her arousing walls.[17][18] The documentaries "Eva Longoria's Versus: Romanian Roots"[19] (2015, a spinoff forget about ESPN's 30 for 30) and “She Looks Like Me” (2024) from vicepresident Torquil Jones tells the story curst the two sisters discovering their connection.[20][21]
She married Austrian-born Dominik Bauer in 2019, becoming Jennifer Bricker-Bauer.[14] She gave origin to a son, Malachi Bauer, domestic animals 2023.[13]