Tammy Faye Messner

Tamara Faye Messner ( born March 7, 1942 in International Falls, Minnesota, † 20 July, 2007 Loch Lloyd, Missouri) was an American Christian singer, evangelist, entrepreneur, author, and television personality. She was the former wife of televangelist Jim Bakker scandal-ridden.

Origin

As the oldest of eight children, Tamara Faye LaValley was born in International Falls, the daughter of the Pentecostal movement preachers Carl and Rachel Fairchild LaValley. Her parents married in 1941, a year before her birth. Shortly after birth, her parents got divorced and she now lived alone with her mother and her brother. When she was six years old her mother married a laborer in a paper mill. With this her mother had four more children.

In the following years she had to take care of the household and her siblings with their mother. Her aunt was the one who took it with to the church for the first time. At the age of ten she joined the Assemblies of God. Before she graduated in 1960, a university, suggested her mother, Tammy Faye that should be a pastor. After you went off together with her future husband Jim Bakker of the North Central University, she worked in a boutique. In 1962, she moved in together to North Carolina.

Television as a medium

Jim and Tammy Bakker were already active during their time in Minneapolis on television and were later in Portsmouth, Virginia founding members of the Christian talk show The 700 Club. In Portsmouth, they developed a Christian television program for children with the name Jim and Tammy and a children's show with puppets, which aired from 1964 to 1973 on CBN. They were also co-founder of the Trinity Broadcasting Network. Mid-1970s, she co-founded with her husband the PTL Club, a Christian television network, which was rocked by scandals later, ultimately led to the bankruptcy.

In 1996, she was with Jim J. Bullock presenter of the television program The Jim J. and Tammy Faye Show. After she was diagnosed with colon cancer, she left the show and was replaced. In the coming years, she was the center of various documents with the titles of The Eyes of Tammy Faye (1999) and a continuation of Tammy Faye: Death Defying (2004) from Lions Gate Films.

Tammy's performances with thick -applied mascara and permanent makeup won her a certain popularity in the gay community. She has several imitators with drag queens and is among other things one of the first evangelical Christians, won the support in the LGBT scene. She thanked me several times for support in the environment after the scandals to her ex-husband.

The Surreal Life

In spring 2004, she appeared in the reality TV show The Surreal Life. Along with Ron Jeremy, Vanilla Ice, Traci Bingham, Erik Estrada and Trishelle Cannatella she lived a house in California and had to perform various activities in twelve days.

Disease

In 1996, Tamara was diagnosed with colon cancer, which later formed metastases in the lungs. At this she died, according to her manager on the morning of 20 July 2007.