Three kids are enough for this online Lothario, who married his a 14-years-older US lover.
He chose nappies and sleep deprivation over clubbing and hanging out with mates when he fell in love at 16 and became a dad soon after his 18th birthday. Now, three-and-a-half years later and father to three children, James Barry, 21, has added “vasectomy” to his “been there, done that” checklist.
“Chronologically I’m young, but in terms of life experiences I’m doing well,” he says.
When Woman’s Day first met James four years ago, the young Perth man had just proposed to his sweetheart Karen Anderson. The loved-up couple had braved damning headlines worldwide for their brazen fling, after they met on the internet and Karen flew from her home in California to meet James. She was accused of preying on the teenage virgin, who was still at school.
“I can see why the public said we’d never make it,” Karen, now 35, says. “When I saw those articles on us I felt violated, but hopefully now people will see I wasn’t a predator. It was real love.”
Within months she was pregnant and the pair had married and moved to America. However, they had to wait six weeks after the wedding for their marriage to be declared legal because Karen’s divorce papers hadn’t come through in time.
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