{"id":220570,"date":"2020-03-26T08:35:01","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T13:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=220570"},"modified":"2020-03-30T16:06:04","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T21:06:04","slug":"jen-bricker-bauer-everything-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/jen-bricker-bauer-everything-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"Newlywed acrobat Jen Bricker-Bauer: Everything is possible, even without legs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jen Bricker-Bauer, a newly\u00a0married<\/a> 32-year-old living in Los Angeles, likes to remind social media followers of her favorite Bible verse. Mark 9:23 reads, “Everything is possible for the one who believes,” and it seems to sum up Bricker-Bauer’s life story. Born to Romanian immigrants to the United States, Jen was left at the hospital by her overwhelmed biological family when she was born without legs. She hadn’t even been given a name. But she was adopted by parents who raised her with the belief that she could do anything.<\/p>\n

At a 2019 talk in Malaysia, Jen said that the first team of doctors her adoptive parents consulted said that she would never be able to sit up unassisted. But her parents persisted. They went to a second team of doctors at a different hospital, who told them instead that “she’s going to do things beyond your wildest imagining.” From then on, Jen wrote on her website<\/a>, her\u00a0 family gave her “one simple rule, Never say can\u2019t.”\u00a0She grew up hearing, “You were born this way for a reason. It wasn’t an accident. It was on purpose.”<\/p>\n

READ: Woman with no limbs creates beautiful paintings<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Jen went on to play sports, including softball, basketball, and volleyball, but tumbling quickly became her favorite. She would eventually become a power tumbling high school state champion, motivated particularly by Dominique Moceanu, a member of the 1996 Magnificent Seven Olympic gold-medalist gymnastics team.<\/p>\n

In a stranger-than-fiction twist, Jen eventually learned that Moceanu was her biological sister, and the two have a close relationship to this day. Jen made a career performing as an acrobat and an aerialist, touring with Britney Spears during her 2009 Circus World Tour. And in 2016, she wrote the New York Times best-seller, “Everything is Possible: Finding the Faith and Courage to Pursue Your Dreams.”<\/p>\n

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