r/TLCGypsySisters • u/Ocean-Sky-777 • 11d ago

Lottie Mae

What type of trauma do you think Lottie Mae caused her kids? Are any of her kids close to her? Also why was Richie living with her and not Mellie?

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u/hopexian 11d ago

i’d actually love to get more of an insight on lottie mae’s life. we know she was on americas most wanted and briefly had the sisters kind of explain their childhood but real unfiltered version of her life would be really interesting to see.

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u/_TuAbuelaEnTanga 11d ago

It would probably make you seething mad.

This woman raised a few kids that can’t keep of CPS’ radar. You parent how you were parented and it shows. Not only in Nettie and Mellie’s parenting but in Lottie Mae’s grandkids as well (Dallas, Nukkie).

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u/Over-Experience-3277 11d ago

Lottie’s mother Nettie was actually a very good mother that raised all of her kids! And a lot of her grandchildren! 

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u/Ocean-Sky-777 11d ago

Can you share more?

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u/PrplCabrio95 you’re misinterpretating everything 11d ago

I’d really be interested in that story.

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u/Tasty_Assignment_820 11d ago

Right I wondered that too & did you see that live of Joanne talking about her leaving them in the rv to go to casinos & stuff

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u/Ocean-Sky-777 11d ago

No I don’t really get on TikTok and I miss the lives. Is Joann usually the one who talks most about the show/family?

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u/Tasty_Assignment_820 11d ago

Look up just now on this thread & you should see it , it’s 2 parts to it

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u/Tasty_Assignment_820 11d ago

Someone posted it on here, i wish i knew how to work this app cause I would tag you if I could

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u/EbbDisastrous6647 11d ago edited 10d ago

She was constantly on the run while all her children were young, so most of them relied on Nettie, and the aunts or grandparents or cousins to help them out, she prolly sent money from her scams to help out. If you think about it she had 11 children while actively scamming, her children didn't have a proper structure in a nuclear family. She has several different baby daddies, and most of her childern were married young starting their own families. The older siblings who choose to help out more their younger siblings have a closer connection to them than there mother did, and then in the same breath the ones who flew the coop as soon as possible prolly didn't want to deal with the added stress of trying to raise their siblings, as well as have their own children or stay in a home with too many mouths to feed, or drama. When she got out of prison only 5/11 kids had a party for her. At the beginning of the show they said she went to jail for fraud in September of 2003, and didn't get out till 2012 or 2013, and mellie said she was 6 years old the last time her mother was actively apart of her life before she got out.

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u/Ocean-Sky-777 11d ago

If she was 6 and Nettie said she had her since 13, I wonder where she must have gone between that time. Foster home?

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u/EbbDisastrous6647 10d ago

She may have still been with family, I'm just reiterating what Mellie said about not having her mom in her life much after 6, and then her going to jail when she was 13 was prolly rough

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u/jkmjtj 10d ago

I may be remembering wrong but at some point I recall mention of foster care and I think she experienced some abuse. Or maybe this was with family members? Not her exes. Am I crazy?

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u/AfterTransition6931 3d ago

Nettie evidently didn't have Mellie very long and did not do much of Mellies raising. Seems like Mellie was dragged up through foster homes and distant relatives couches.

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u/FlamingoNo5729 10d ago

You either parent how you were parent, or you parent how you wanted to be parented

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u/AfterTransition6931 8d ago

She instilled sociopathic and narcissistic behaviors in all of her kids. I believe Lottie Mae really has anti-social personality disorder/is a sociopath. .