Background
Cupcake Brown was erroneously named when a nurse misunderstood her mother"s post-delivery request. She remembers a happy childhood until the age of eleven when her mother died of choking on her tongue during her sleep (seizure).
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Cupcake Brown
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San Diego State University.
Career
She was placed in several foster homes, in which she was abused both physically and sexually. She ran away and was subsequently introduced to prostitution. She later joined a gang after moving in with an aunt in Los Los Angeles A few days before she turned sixteen, Brown was shot by a rival gang in a drive-by.
The doctors told her that she may not be able to walk again.
Three weeks after that, she decided to quit being a gang member and later that same year, she left the foster care system, declared legally emancipated. As an adult, Brown obtained work in a law firm, but continued struggling with drug addiction until she reached out to her boss for assistance and went to rehabilitation
She wrote an autobiography called A Piece of Cake: A Memoir.
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