Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Naomi Swartzentruber Naomi Swartzentruber before leaving the Amish; Naomi Swartzentruber during her career as a stripper. Naomi ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Daniel Beiler grew up in an Amish community with few modern conveniences. He dreamed of a bigger world, and was excommunicated a ...

Lizzie Ens was shunned by her family after leaving home to start a new life at the age of 19 Lizzie Ens grew up Amish until the age of 19. She was shunned by her family after escaping to start a new ...

Two decades after she was shunned by her family, Lizzie Ens is pursuing a PhD in functional medicine Lizzie Ens grew up Amish until the age of 19, when she left the community to start a new life in ...

Jennifer Garner grew up in a strict West Virginian household with two sisters and her parents. Her mother, Patricia Garner, and her father, William Garner, were born during the Great Depression and ...

HARMONY, MINN. – Eddie Swartzentruber’s childhood growing up in Minnesota’s Driftless Area was different than many of his “worldly” neighbors. There was no TV or video games — or even electricity, for ...

Naomi Swartzentruber escaped her Amish community at age 17 after rebelling against the lifestyle's restrictive values throughout her teen years. Two years later, she started dancing in strip clubs to ...

It was March of 1999, and Naomi Swartzentruber was on her own for the first time. She had no one to call — no parents, no siblings nor the ex-boyfriend who coaxed her out to Minnesota in the first ...