On this day in 2005, Mary Kay Letourneau, 43, married Vili Fualaau, 22. At this point the only weird, sort of abnormal thing is the age difference between the pair, a total of 21 years.
Before I dive deeper into the weirdness, let me first tell you a little bit more about our good friend Mary Kay.
Mary Kay Schmitz met her first husband, Steve Letourneau whilst a student at Arizona State University. They had four children together, Steven Jr., Mary Claire, Nicholas and Jacqueline, despite Mary claiming that she was not in love with Steve, marrying him only because her parents urged her to. Unsurprisingly, their marriage was an unhappy one. Whilst living in Seattle, Mary attended night classes at Seattle University, graduating with a teaching degree in 1989. Shortly afterwards she began teaching second grade at Shorewood Elementary School in the suburb of Burien.
It was here, in 1996, that she met Vili Fualaau, her future husband.
Mary Kay first met Fualaau when he was in her second grade class and then taught him again in the sixth-grade class. It was whilst she was teaching him in grade six that the pair began to have an intimate, sexual relationship.
He was 12. She was 35.
In 1997, Mary Kay was arrested when her ex-husband informed police that she had been having sexual intercourse with the sixth-grade Fualaau. She served a seven and a half year sentence for child rape, giving birth to two children, both girls, fathered by Faulaau whilst in prison.
Initially, a no-contact order was issued between the two, but at the request of Fualaau, then 21, this was reversed.
The pair were married on this day in an exclusive ceremony. Exclusive in the sense that Entertainment Tonight was allowed to come in and take photos, which were then given to other media outlets, promoting Mary Kay and Vili's celebrity status even more.
Now I'm all for love having no boundaries and love conquers all, but still! I think that maybe love should have some sort of restrictions, especially in the case that a twelve-year-old can get a thirty-five-year-old pregnant.
Again, I'd like to reiterate, "What?! Why?"
Seriously!
Image available: http://articles.nydailynews.com/2009-05-24/gossip/17923643_1_mary-kay-letourneau-teacher-night-seattle-suburb
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