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•BASICS•
• NAME: Janessa Marie Blake - Turner
• Age: 27
• Family: [Divorced] Mother, Alana Blake-Jackobs; Father, Brenden Blake [Deceased]; Step-Father Richard Jackobs; Only child; Husband, Dylan Turner
• Career: Freelance writer/Author
• Hometown: Grew up in Bangor Maine but was born in London England.
• Relationship status: Married
• Physical Features:
Hair: Light brown
Eyes: Dark Brown
Height: 5 feet 2inches
Body type: fit/Petite
• Distinguishing features: Hint of a British Accent when she speaks, contacts/glasses, dimples, bump on the bridge of her nose, always polished nails. she has several tattoos, some of which she tries to hide others she can't like the one on the outside of her right hand.
• Bio:
Janessa Blake was born on March 25th, 1983 to Brenden and Alana Blake. Born in London, Janessa was an Army Brat. Her father originally from Maine and her mother a small town outside of London. While her father was shipped from base to base in Europe, for strategic training, she and her mother stayed with her grandparents until she was 8. Her father was stationed back in the states and assigned to recruiting for the US Army. Her mother was very reluctant to move stateside, afraid of the difference in the style of up bringing she opted to raise her daughter in.
Once in the states, Janessa was immediately swamped in family. Her father came from a rather large family. There were plenty of aunts, uncles and cousins but she was an only child. She grew a tight bond with her grandparents who she tended to spend more time with as her parents marriage began to fall apart. Her grandmother was a talented florist and taught her granddaughter the ways around the shop and a passion grew. By the time she was 15, she was working in the shop part-time between school and family. It was her dream to take over her grandmothers job but a single event would change her life forever and how she related to people.
At the age of 16, her parents marriage hit a breaking point when her mother left to visit family in England and failed to return. It was a defining moment in Nessa's life. Things changed and it went from simple and carefree to taking care of her strict military father. He was extremely controlling. She was no long allowed to work in the shop, her father had to know where she was at all times. Nessa had strict curfews and was not allowed to date. She was too afraid to rebel so she did as she was told and after graduation, Janessa went to college.
Attending Boston University, it was a sharp contrast from being under the thumb of her father and constantly being surrounded by her large family. Her major was journalism and Abnormal Psychology. However, not having that structure around her, Janessa didn't stay on her studies and was put on academic probation her Freshman year. Drinking, partying, and dating took control until her mother came back into her life.
Moving to Boston, her mother and her new husband were like a breath of fresh air. She'd always been in contact with her mother. When she first left, Janessa didn't understand but as she grew older, under her fathers control, it was clear she did what she had to by getting out when she could. She dreaded weekends when her father would come into town, he would be over critical of her friends, her apartment, her boyfriend, her hair. His idea of spending time together was doing drills and running through the park. While when she'd go to her mother and step fathers, it would be shopping, dinner and lots of laughs. They encouraged, unlike her father, her choice in major.
When she graduated college, her father had gradually slipped out of her life, it wasn't until he passed away a year ago she really had contact. Being the next of kin it was her decision how to handle her fathers funeral and all surrounding that. He was granted a burial at Arlington National Cemetery and there he was laid. She would never visit the spot again, he was gone and she had no reason to dwell on him or the past. Janessa continued to live in Boston after graduating college, her mother and step father helped her get her get settled in buying her an apartment and helping her get a column in a local newspaper there, in Boston. Her whole life, she really hadn't been big into dating but when she was in college it took a turning point. She became a serial dater. Never one to settle down, it was always better in her opinion to be with someone that loved you more than you loved them. She would rather be worshiped then fall in herself. That all stayed the same until she moved to New York City. There she met a man who changed her life. His name was Tyler, he brought the best out of her. The two had met when she was at Starbucks waiting in line from then on they were pretty much glued together at the type. It was really honest to God love for Janessa but just when you think everything is perfect, that's when the other shoe drops. He was gone with no warning. The two had bought a house and dog, then he was just gone and had left her bitter with a mortgage and a dog she didn't want.
Being jilted and left behind she really didn't want to date. She had a chance to do a book and work for Cosmo magazine, her career was what got her through it all. She invested her time in building it up. By the time she was 25, nessa had two books, several columns and a radio talk show on the sirius/xm Playboy radio station. With all that she was able to make a nice living for herself and it was a sharp contrast of how she grew up. There wasn't a time where she wasn't done from head to toe. Make up, designer clothes, shoes her hair done just because she wanted to get rid of the memories from her past. Again another life altering event was to happen again while she kept herself buried in work.
Blind dates were a no no. She had written about it many times but having let a friend set her up with a "PERFECT" match little did she know that this friend was right. There was Dylan Turner. A very cute, nerdy and funny Boston native. She had always thought of her true home to be in Boston so the two had a lot in common they loved a lot of the same sports, they were both writers and loved to read. Before she could even realize what was going on the two of them were dating and the L word was thrown out. They were both living in New York paying the sky high rent and out of no where Dylan asked her to get an apartment with him. Neither were hurting for money but it was just his way of getting around her walls. If he could make it about finances and not love and commitment he knew that she'd say yes.
Saying "I love you" was never an easy thing for Janessa. When asked about LOVE and why she never wrote about that when it came to sex and relationships it in interviews she would direct people to a lyric from John Lennon's song "how" How can I give love when I don't know what it is I'm giving? How can I give love, when love is something I aint never had... To her it was probably the best way of describing things. However with Dylan that was just never a question. He gave her something that she had never known and when he asked her to marry him there was no hesitation. Now they were newlyweds and moving back to their home in Boston for many reasons, one being her father in law being ill and the other was just because of their love for the city.
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