Background
Sizemore, Chris Costner was born on April 4, 1927 in Edgefield, South Carolina, United States. Daughter of Doctor Acie and Eunice Zueline (Hastings) C.
Sizemore, Chris Costner was born on April 4, 1927 in Edgefield, South Carolina, United States. Daughter of Doctor Acie and Eunice Zueline (Hastings) C.
Her case, with a pseudonym used, was depicted in the 1950s book and film The Three Faces of Eve by her psychiatrists, Corbett H. Thigpen and Hervey M. Cleckley. She went public with her true identity in the 1970s. In accordance with then-current modes of thought on the disorder, Thigpen reported that Sizemore had developed multiple personalities as a result of her witnessing two deaths and a horrifying accident within three months as a small child.
By Sizemore"s own report, these incidents triggered the evidencing of selves which were already present.
"Despite authorities" claims to the contrary, my former alters were not fragments of my birth personality. They were entities, whole in their own rights, who coexisted with my birth personality before I was born.
They were not me, but they remain intrinsically related to what it means to be medical "
While The Three Faces of Eve was written by Thigpen and Cleckley with limited input from Sizemore, her later books I"m Eve and A Mind of My Own fill in details. Much earlier, in 1958, she had written Strangers in My Body: The Final Face of Eve, using the pseudonym Evelyn Lancaster.
According to psychiatrists who worked with her after she moved from South Carolina, Sizemore did not experience three selves, but approximately 20.
The doctors reported that her selves presented in groups of three at a time. Sizemore has reported feeling exploited and objectified by the media blitz surrounding the book and film. Sizemore"s papers, covering 1952 through 1989, have been acquired by the Duke University Library.
An overview of the collection and a summary of Sizemore"s story are included on its website.
Sizemore was interviewed on the British Broadcasting Corporation News channel series Hardtalk on March 25, 2009.
(A Mind of My Own with Chris Sizemore, The Reflections of ...)
Chair Human Rights Committee Dorothera Dix Hospital, Raleigh, North Carolina, 1986. Member National League of America Pen Women (charter, chaplin 1994, recording secretary 1994, vice president 1994, president 1996, Florida state chaplain 1996-1997, Woman of Year 1997, Individual Achievement award 1999, state president 2000-2001), Pioneer Garden Club, Pilots International (honorary), Republican Women Federation (honorary), Ocala Art Group (honorary), Alpha Delta Kappa (honorary).
Married Don G. Sizemore, December 18, 1953 (deceased August, 1992). Children: Taffy A. Fecteau, Don Robert.