Jaspers past is something that she always tries her hardest not to talk about.
Jasper and her twin brother Tiberius were born into an already failing marriage. Two young people married before they ever really had the chance to know one another, it didn't take long for Marie and Nicholas to realize that their marriage was failing. Despite her husbands cold demeanor, Marie did love him, and in one last, desperate attempt to get her husband to stay - they decided to have a baby. Nicholas wanted one
child.One son. Jasper was the surprise - but obviously not a happy one.
In their haste to try and save their marriage, Jaspers parents failed to realize just how much responsibility having children was. Bounced around from Nanny to Nanny during their early childhood, Marie and Nicholas were always focusing on their careers more than their family. When a car crash caused Marie to break her left leg, the woman gave up her modeling career, convinced that it was the end of the world. By the time that her leg was healed, Marie had began to drink heavily and became addicted to the pain pills that the doctor had prescribed her. Being stuck at home with her children made her begin to hate them. One last failed attempt to find a caregiver for his children, Nicholas finally found a nanny named Rosalinda, who took great care of the kids. While she wasn't a replacement for Jaspers parents, she did help the kids in many ways.
Rosalinda is who Jasper has to thank for her ability to play the violin and guitar. She also owes the woman for sheltering her and her brother from their parents arguments.
Obsessed with her own body image, when Jasper hit the age of thirteen, her mother began to hound her over her weight. Beginning to grow into her body shape more now with puberty, Jasper did need new clothes every now and then - but she was by no means overweight. Sadly, Marie didn't look at it the same way.
From the age of thirteen until she was sixteen, Jasper was constantly told that she was fat, overweight, and even ugly. She knew that she would never be a model like her mother, and that didn't bother her. What did bother her, however, was the fact that her mother would do things to make Jasper feel fat. The young woman recalls on multiple occasions where her mother would buy clothes that were to small for her and expect her to be able to fit them. When she couldn't, Jasper was more or less forced to exercise at home, and eat small portions of so called healthy foods. Ty did his best to make his sister feel more valid in her own skin, but he could only do so much. While their mother was mentally and verbally abusive, their father was physically. Ty took the brunt of most of his rages for her.
By the age of fourteen, Jasper had began to develop an eating disorder. She would go days without eating only to gorge herself and ultimately feel guilty and make herself sick. When Marie found out, she was more than sure to let her daughter know that she thought she was a freak.
"If you didn't eat all the time, and actually followed the exercise, it wouldn't be so hard for you to be thin," she would say.
Her mother - to everyone surprise - actually put her daughter into therapy. While it took three years and her mothers eventual death to over come her eating disorder, Jasper was more than grateful for her brother and Rosalinda being there for her in every way that they could be.
Finding a love for cooking after her mothers death, Jasper fount that having curves and indulging yourself wasn't a bad thing at all. Jasper is now proud to say that she is comfortable in her own skin.
As payback for Ty standing up to him, their father has decided to split the twins up for Christmas this year. Thus, Jasper is now as Second Horizons