Career
Jeff Tremaine, producer of Jackass, once referred to her as "everyone"s mom", telling how she cooked dinner for the entire Jackass crew on their first trip to West Chester. In 2006, she published a cookbook called April Cooks: There"s An Alligator In My Kitchen, which is a play on the fact that Bam put an alligator in her kitchen as part of a skit on Jackass: The Movie (he was trying to make her swear because the movie would be uncensored). In December 2011, it was announced that April had opened The Rose Hip Barn, along with her mother Velma and her daughter-in-law Kelly.
The store, located in Thornton, Pennsylvania, sells refurbished furniture as well as homemade purses and accessories for the home.