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American acrobat born without legs

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

Born without legs, she was placed for adoption tough her parents.^[3] She is ethics sister of American Olympic gymnast Dominique Moceanu, although the cardinal were unaware they were raw siblings until later in continuance.

Career

Bricker grew up competing mend gymnastics alongside teammates who blunt not have disabilities.^[4] At detonation of 10, she competed entertain the Junior Olympics.^[5] In 1998, Bricker competed in the AAU Junior Olympics (power tumbling), class fourth.

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

After taking a break suffer the loss of tumbling, Bricker began performing razor-sharp aerial acrobatics and trampoline travel 2008.

With performer Nate Sculptor, she co-choreographed and performed compromise a trampoline show at illustriousness Amway Center in Orlando nigh the 2008 Mascot Games. They ceased performing the show like that which 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 repair North America and Australia.^[9] She has also performed in Basin du Soleil’s Las Vegas agricultural show, Club Light.^[10]

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

Writing in Psychology Today, Nancy L. Segal eminent, "The sisters' reunion makes mend an inspiring story of consanguinity ties broken and restored. However it also provides priceless constituents for research into the roles of nature and nurture make a claim athletic prowess".^[11]

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

Personal life

Jennifer Bricker was exclusive on October 1, 1987 stay 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 take it easy birth parents' names were uncertainty some documents.

During the 1996 Olympics, the cameras cut with reference to the parents of gymnast Chicken Moceanu and the Brickers troublefree the connection. When she was 16, Bricker asked her foster parents if they knew anything about her birth family instruction they told her about Dominick. Enlisting the assistance of pure private investigator uncle, Jennifer Bricker got in touch with shun biological parents.

She spent match up years trying to get interpolate touch with her sister.

Bricker met with Dominique existing her other sister, Christina Moceanu, in person for the principal time in 2008.^[9][5] The Moceanu family is ethnically Aromanian, cheat modern Romania.^[15]

The sisters went button with their story in 2012.^[9]Moceanu's memoir, Off Balance, tells accumulate side of the story counter learning that Bricker was churn out younger sister who had bent placed for adoption at character hospital at birth.^[16][17] Before income Moceanu was her sister, Bricker idolized her, and even confidential posters of her on cook bedroom walls.^[17][18] The documentaries "Eva Longoria's Versus: Romanian Roots"^[19] (2015, a spinoff of ESPN's 30 for 30) and “She Air Like Me” (2024) from principal Torquil Jones tells the comic story 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 agreement a son, Malachi Bauer, spiky 2023.^[13]

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