Secret 019: I Am an Avondale Quad!
Beyond the Secret
Ace Fanning
5 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2019
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Secret 019: I Am an Avondale Quad
In 1998, a set of quadruplets received national attention when they were subjected to severe abuse at the hands of their mother. One quadruplet talks with Ace about the way growing up in the national publicity affected her upbringing, and the way it has impacted her own experience of pregnancy and motherhood.
AZ Central, Avondale Quads: From birth and abuse to a new beginning: https://youtu.be/2xzNlyVoi-8
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this podcast is not kid-friendly. |
| 0:05.0 | So if you don't want your kid to hear about sex and the word shit and all that other stuff, |
| 0:10.0 | you should probably get them out of the room right now. |
| 0:16.0 | Everybody has a secret. This is Beyond the Secret, an anonymous podcast where I uncover the truth |
| 0:20.0 | behind people's deepest secrets. My name is Ace Fanning and I want to know |
| 0:27.3 | what's your secret? |
| 0:31.6 | Welcome back to another week of Beyond the Secret. |
| 0:35.0 | Guys, this week's secret is unlike any of the secrets that I've ever shared in the past, mainly because this week's |
| 0:47.3 | secret is not a secret at all. In fact, if you go to Google and type in Avondale Quads, you'll get about 70,000 results. |
| 1:00.6 | There are websites upon websites dedicated to this story, articles, videos. |
| 1:07.0 | But the problem is, so much of what these websites and stories are focusing on is a woman named Elizabeth Shannon Whittle. |
| 1:20.0 | And I don't want to focus on her. |
| 1:29.0 | So today I'm going to focus on her. |
| 1:29.0 | So today I'm going to focus on somebody else, somebody who I think is a lot more important in this story. |
| 1:40.0 | And I hope her story touches you. |
| 1:44.6 | So this week's secret, I am one of the Avondale Quads. |
| 2:00.9 | To prepare for this interview I did some research and I don't want to be the person to tell your story and so I just want to ask if you can give us the |
| 2:07.6 | information that you have on what happened. Okay so from what I know is my birth parents, they were just getting together, they weren't into like the whole like serious thing. |
| 2:21.0 | I have a sister who's about six years older than me but she has Down syndrome and that plays |
| 2:26.6 | into the factor of this story later. But basically what happened was my birth mom and my birth dad got pregnant basically on accident. |
| 2:36.9 | They weren't going through fertility or anything. |
| 2:40.1 | No IVF and she got pregnant with quadru Blitz and it was a big story because the way the situation was was there was two sacks and my brothers were in one and I was in another and there was three boys and one girl. And she went through the whole pregnancy, |
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