Single Mom of 5 Passes Bar Exam After Viral Graduation Photos

“I grew up in foster care,” Ieshia Champs says in a Facebook video, “I grew up on the street. I had given up on myself. I had checked the ‘she’ll never amount to anything box.'” Thankfully, Ieshia, a single mother of five, had a strong church family who had not given up on her.

In 2009, Champs was struggling. In an interview with USA TODAY, she says she had recently lost the father of two of her children to cancer, her mother had a stroke from which she never recovered, and she lost everything she owned to a house fire. Seeing no way up and out of this despair, she tried to commit suicide.


Jenny Rapson
Jenny Rapson
Jenny is a follower of Christ, a wife and mom of three from Ohio and a freelance writer and editor.

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