What if you married the love of your life and then stood by them as they developed 21 new identities?

What would you do?

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podcasts. This is Tiffany.

Hey Tiffany, this is Jess, I just talked to on the phone phone I need to know how you got my number I'm reporting these things.

Oh, it's publicly listed on the internet.

It's not because my phone number is a brand new phone number.

Oh, is your privacy important to you?

It is.

It's important to all your victims too.

Okay. You have no person person I did anything.

I have so much proof, it's insane, baby girl.

So I'm sitting there at work and I get this message request on Instagram. I open it and it's literally a whole

ass book talking about someone using my pictures in Iowa to catfish girls.

And I was like, you're kidding.

I don't believe this for one second.

And they're like, no, it's, this is real.

I had to tell her three years into the relationship, quote unquote, with Brody that I've been talking to this guy I haven't met and she's terrified for me.

I wanted to fly there because he was in the hospital and she just had the worst feeling about it.

I feel like the reason she took so long to tell me was because deep down she knew something was not right.

From the moment Lauren met Jess, I thought that Jess was Brady.

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