Career
Born and raised in New York, after attending a Catholic school, Breyer became a registered nurse, primarily caring for children with terminal illnesses or incurable disabilities, and also did voluntary work for animal charities in New New York After marrying, Lady Jaye lived in Brooklyn and began collaborating on art and music projects. In 1995, Genesis was badly injured when escaping from a fire at a residence owned by Rick Rubin, and they used money from the legal settlement to undergo a series of surgical procedures to look like each other, including breast implants and cosmetic facial surgery.
"We view Breyer P-Orridge as a separate person who is both of us," Lady Jaye explained.
"Neither of us take cr for the work, the work is a melding of both of our ideas which we would not have had singly. Both of us are in all of our art
That third being, Breyer P-Orridge, is always present."
Lady Jaye died in October 2007 of stomach cancer. Breyer P-Orridge is the subject of the 2011 film The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye.
