{"id":2500,"date":"2025-09-03T19:00:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T19:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/?p=2500"},"modified":"2025-09-03T19:00:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T19:00:28","slug":"angus-t-jones-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/?p=2500","title":{"rendered":"Angus T. Jones,"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ann Bevan\u2019s life is remembered as both heartbreaking and courageous. Born in London on December 20, 1874, she enjoyed a normal childhood, trained as a nurse, and later married Thomas Bevan, a farmer from Kent. The couple had four children and lived a modest, happy life until Thomas\u2019s untimely death in 1914. Left a widow, Mary Ann was forced to support her family alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-623.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-72111\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Soon, she began developing symptoms of acromegaly, a rare disorder caused by excessive growth hormone. Her features changed dramatically\u2014her hands, feet, and face grew disproportionate, leaving her unrecognizable. With few medical treatments available at the time and facing social stigma, she struggled to find steady work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-624.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-72112\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Desperate, she entered a \u201cHomeliest Woman\u201d contest and won, which led to sideshow opportunities. In 1920, she accepted an offer to join Coney Island\u2019s Dreamland amusement park, performing alongside other well-known circus acts. Branded cruelly as the \u201cUgliest Woman in the World,\u201d she endured public ridicule but used her earnings to provide her children with a better life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-625.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-72113\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By the 1930s, she had become an international sideshow attraction. Mary Ann Bevan died in 1933 at age 59, remembered not for her appearance but for her sacrifice and devotion as a mother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-626.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-72114\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ann Bevan\u2019s life is remembered as both heartbreaking and courageous. Born in London on December 20, 1874, she enjoyed a normal childhood, trained as a nurse, and later married Thomas Bevan, a farmer from Kent. The couple had four children and lived a modest, happy life until Thomas\u2019s untimely death in 1914. Left a widow,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2502,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500\/revisions\/2502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}