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They said, you know, mommy, you know, why do you have these scars and I said I had an accident?

But, you know, as they got older and they learned about the World Wide Web.

I remember the day they came in and said,

Mommy, you're famous, you were on TV, like they were excited.

Kendra Beebe met her ex-husband on a trip to London.

Their relationship was a whirlwind, to say the least.

He was from London, England.

He seemed very exciting. He claimed to have been a professional dancer and we started a long distance relationship and the first time I went back to visit him, he took me on a trip to Amsterdam and he told me he had owned a business and had sold it and was retired. I ended up pregnant after only knowing him about eight months.

So because I was raised in kind of like with a strict Catholic upbringing I felt like I needed to get married.

So we got married in Las Vegas and in a week later I found out nearly everything that he had told me was not true.

Well I separated from him and went through the pregnancy alone and by the time our child was six months old he had been contacting me telling me

he was a changed man that you know he was 40 years old now and that he had come to his senses and he wanted to have a family and he had three other children from two other women, but he said this was different and I guess I just really wanted to believe that all of that was true and I didn't want to be an unwed mother and I wanted to have an intact

family so bad. Kendra took him back and shortly after she got pregnant with her second child.

And after I had our second child,

it was just a few months later,

we had had the same cell phones

and accidentally switched them

and I saw the text from other women and found out he was

still cheating on me so I was no more than a green card and a meal ticket.

Her kids were very young at the time,

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