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Post by Admin on Jul 17, 2016 22:34:32 GMT
Seven years after she was liberated, kidnapping survivor Jaycee Dugard is reveling in her freedom – and open to finding love. Subscribe now for the exclusive interview and excerpt from her new memoir, only in PEOPLE. They say beauty lies in the eye of the beholder, and for 18 years of Jaycee Dugard's life, the beholder was Phillip Garrido, the man who kidnapped her from a bus stop in 1991.  In her second memoir, Freedom: My Book of Firsts, the 36-year-old kidnapping survivor describes how her "sense of beauty" was "tainted" by her years under Garrido's control.  "When a psycho grown-up man that has kidnapped you and taken you away from everything you have known and loved forces you to 'dress up' and put on makeup for his personal fantasies ... your viewpoint can change," she writes. "I know mine has."  |
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Post by Admin on Jul 18, 2016 22:47:07 GMT
Learning to drive was one wistful goal she set for herself back when she was a scared child at the mercy and sexual servitude of the Garridos, who snatched her from her South Lake Tahoe neighborhood in 1991. Phillip Garrido is now serving a sentence of 431 years to life at Corcoran State Prison, while his wife is serving 36 years to life at Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla.  Dugard said in the TV special that she does not “want to give one more minute to Phillip and Nancy — I gave them 18 years of my life.” But in a surprising turn, she says she wouldn’t begrudge her daughters, who are now in college, if one day they wanted to visit their father.  “I want them to make their own choices in life,” Dugard said. “I wouldn’t be OK with it, but I wouldn’t not let them go through with it.”  Along those lines, she spoke of how she and her daughters, who were initially raised to believe that she was their much older sister, have gotten to the point where they can talk about it with no equivocation.  “They lived with a crazy person for a long time,” Dugard said in simulating an instance of that conversation. “They came out of the backyard, there were ups and downs, and a lot of amazing people, and they lived their life.” |
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Post by Admin on Jul 20, 2016 22:33:59 GMT
 During the nearly two decades Jaycee Dugard was held captive in the backyard of her kidnappers, she hid small scraps of paper to write down her thoughts and feelings.  While held captive, Dugard wrote down a list she called "My Dreams for the Future." "See mom," was the first thing she wrote down. It is dated March 28, 2006, three years before she was miraculously rescued.  Dugard was just 11 years old when she was kidnapped by Phillip and Nancy Garrido in 1991 near her home in Lake Tahoe, California. She was held captive for 18 years and gave birth to two daughters while she was a prisoner. Dugard and her girls were rescued in 2009, and she was reunited with her mother, Terry Probyn.  Dugard, now 36, first detailed her horrific experience in her 2011 best-selling book, "A Stolen Life: A Memoir," and now has a second book, "Freedom: My Book of Firsts," about moving on after those years in captivity. The memoir is due out on July 12.  This was a recent check for Dugard, who got to go on a ship called the Adirondack III in June. While on board, one of her shipmates shared a favorite saying, "You can't control the wind, but you can adjust the sails." |
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Post by Admin on Jul 27, 2016 21:37:47 GMT
Jaycee Dugard and her two daughters were photographed looking happy and healthy, grabbing ice cream as a family. Their outing comes shortly after Jaycee appeared on ’20/20′ and discussed how they were able to survive and thrive during their horrific imprisonment, seven years ago. Seven years after they were finally freed from kidnapper Phillip Garrido, Jaycee Dugard and her two daughters seem to have found some sense of normalcy. Sadly, photographers followed Jaycee and her girls during a quiet family outing. This was the first time that Angel Dugard, 21, and Starlit Dugard, 18, have been seen since escaping Phillip and Nancy Garrido‘s horrific backyard prison with their mother in 2009.  Jaycee, Angel and Starlit were spotted window shopping and grabbing lunch and dessert near their Northern California home sometime in July 2016, by the National Enquirer. Jaycee spoke to 20/20 on July 8 and discussed how she was able to survive her horrific ordeal. Jaycee was kidnapped in 1991 when she was just 11 years-old, and raped repeatedly for the 18 years she was held prisoner in a delaptitated backyard shack.  |
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Post by Admin on Aug 1, 2016 21:28:02 GMT
 Now 36, and seven years removed from the backyard compound in Antioch where she spent 18 years in captivity -- during which she gave birth to two daughters fathered by her rapist kidnapper -- Dugard runs her own foundation, is a prominent victim advocate and an occasional celebrity who has been feted by Diane Sawyer and Oprah Winfrey.  But as Dugard conveys throughout her new memoir, "Freedom: My Book of Firsts" (Simon & Schuster, $25, 272 pages) she is also someone who, in many ways, is experiencing the world for the first time.  Among her discoveries: An affinity for Starbucks coffee. A penchant for horses and animals in general. The anxiety of flying alone. Learning to drive and getting a speeding ticket. Nursing a champagne hangover. It's a stark contrast from her 2011 memoir, "A Stolen Life," which recounted her captivity in heart-wrenching detail. That account was gripping, because before she resurfaced in 2009, there had been no known instance of a kidnap victim emerging alive after being missing for so long.  The 33 vignettes that comprise "Freedom" could easily be read as diary entries not much different from a running chronicle of a life on social media; much of the memoir has the feel and tone of a Facebook profile converted into book form. A restoration mission in a hurricane-ravaged part of Belize and a trip to Ireland all come with the requisite photos that one would post online.  Still, no matter how mundane some of her experiences might seem, Dugard makes them compelling by periodically flashing back to her time in the clutches of Phillip and Nancy Garrido, who kidnapped her from her South Lake Tahoe street in 1991. Both are now serving lifetime prison sentences. |
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