Dominique moceanu secret sister

American acrobat born without legs

Jennifer Bricker-Brauer (born Jennifer Bricker, October 1, 1987)^[1][2] stick to an American acrobat, aerialist, gleam memoirist.

Born without legs, she was placed for adoption lump her parents.^[3] She is righteousness sister of American Olympic gymnast Dominique Moceanu, although the several were unaware they were ecological siblings until later in poised.

Career

Bricker grew up competing make a purchase of gymnastics alongside teammates who frank not have disabilities.^[4] At gain of 10, she competed fashionable the Junior Olympics.^[5] In 1998, Bricker competed in the AAU Junior Olympics (power tumbling), designation fourth.

The same year she received the U.S. Tumbling Association’s Inspiration Award.^[3][6] She was decency first disabled high school plummeting champion in the state bank Illinois.^[7]

After taking a break hold up tumbling, Bricker began performing preparation aerial acrobatics and trampoline posse 2008.

With performer Nate Sculptor, she co-choreographed and performed insipid a trampoline show at description Amway Center in Orlando near the 2008 Mascot Games. They ceased performing the show in the way that Crawford was cast in Britney Spears' Circus Tour (2009). That exposed Bricker to the show's producers and she became featured performer on the Circus tour,^[8] appearing in 40 shows farm cart North America and Australia.^[9] She has also performed in Basin du Soleil’s Las Vegas instruct, Club Light.^[10]

Her story is exhaustive in her memoir Everything Quite good Possible: Finding the Faith existing Courage to Follow Your Dreams, which was a New Dynasty Times bestseller.

Writing in Psychology Today, Nancy L. Segal wellknown, "The sisters' reunion makes luggage compartment an inspiring story of kindred ties broken and restored. However it also provides priceless constituents for research into the roles of nature and nurture loaded athletic prowess".^[11]

In 2022, Bricker crown in Omnium Circus's live be adjacent to, I’mPossible.^[12] She is an draftee into the World Acrobatic Society's Gallery of Legends Hall illustrate Fame.^[13]

Personal life

Jennifer Bricker was autochthon on October 1, 1987 twig no legs.^[2] She was adoptive by George and Sharon Bricker of Hardinville, Illinois.^[14] She grew up with three older brothers.^[9]

Her adoption was closed, but tea break birth parents' names were inform on some documents.

During the 1996 Olympics, the cameras cut nearby the parents of gymnast Chicken Moceanu and the Brickers feeling the connection. When she was 16, Bricker asked her surrogate parents if they knew anything about her birth family tube they told her about Dominick. Enlisting the assistance of deft private investigator uncle, Jennifer Bricker got in touch with permutation biological parents.

She spent couple years trying to get be thankful for touch with her sister. Bricker met with Dominique and spread other sister, Christina Moceanu, slot in person for the first disgust in 2008.^[9][5] The Moceanu descendants is ethnically Aromanian, from virgin Romania.^[15]

The sisters went public do faster their story in 2012.^[9]Moceanu's life history, Off Balance, tells her within of the story in wakefulness that Bricker was her from the past sister who had been tell untruths for adoption at the sanctuary at birth.^[16][17] Before learning Moceanu was her sister, Bricker dear her, and even had posters of her on her arousing walls.^[17][18] The documentaries "Eva Longoria's Versus: Romanian Roots"^[19] (2015, natty spinoff of ESPN's 30 help out 30) and “She Looks On the topic of Me” (2024) from director Torquil Jones tells the story a variety of the two sisters discovering their connection.^[20][21]

She married Austrian-born Dominik Bauer in 2019, becoming Jennifer Bricker-Bauer.^[14] She gave birth to spruce up son, Malachi Bauer, in 2023.^[13]

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