biography
CHLOE'S FATHER WAS A BASTARD. AT LEAST THAT'S WHAT HER MOTHER, POPPY ALWAYS TOLD HER. A WANNABE PROFESSIONAL SURFER NAMED HEATH WHO BREEZED INTO SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA FOR A FEW WEEKS JUST LONG ENOUGH TO CHARM HIS WAY INTO HER PANTS. BY THE TIME POPPY REALIZED SHE WAS PREGNANT HEATH WAS NOWHERE TO BE FOUND SEALING HER FATE AS A SINGLE MOTHER. A ROLE IN WHICH SHE WAS EQUALLY DISINTERESTED IN. POPPY WOULD OFTEN DELEGATE THE CARE OF CHLOE TO BABYSITTERS AND EXTENDED FAMILY MEMBERS AS SHE TRIED UNSUCCESSFULLY TO FULFILL HER DREAMS OF BEING AN ACTRESS. OFTEN UNABLE TO CONCEAL HER DISDAIN FOR THE CHILD SHE NEVER REALLY WANTED, CHLOE WOULD OFTEN FEEL THE WEIGHT OF HER BURDEN THROUGH HER MOTHER'S BOLD NEGLECT. SHE WOULD SPEND MUCH OF HER FORMATIVE YEARS TRAILING BEHIND POPPY AS SHE MOVED FROM CITY TO CITY IN SEARCH OF STARDOM AS WELL AS THE COMPANY OF VARIOUS MEN. MARRIED AND DIVORCED TWICE BY THE TIME CHLOE WAS THIRTEEN. IT WOULD BE HER THIRD HUSBAND PAUL, A MUCH OLDER BUT WEALTHY AMERICAN LAWYER THAT BROUGHT WITH HIM A SEMBLANCE OF STABILITY FOR THE EVER EVOLVING FAMILY.
RELOCATING TO MANHATTAN NEW YORK WITH HIM, CHLOE EXPERIENCED MANY SIMPLE LUXURIES FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HER YOUNG LIFE- THE BENEFITS OF HAVING A HOME ADDRESS FOR LONGER THAN A YEAR AMONG THEM. PAUL WHO HAD NO CHILDREN OF HIS OWN PROVED TO BE AN EXCEPTIONAL FATHER FIGURE TREATING CHLOE IN MANY WAYS FAR BETTER THAN POPPY EVER DID. A YEAR INTO THE MARRIAGE HE WOULD LEGALLY ADOPT HER AND OFFERED A LAST NAME THAT WAS READILY ACCEPTED. IN THIS NEW ENVIRONMENT, THE SLIGHTLY OVERWEIGHT AND SAD LITTLE GIRL BLOSSOMED INTO A CONFIDENT YOUNG WOMAN. IN SCHOOL SHE WOULD EXCEL IN SPITE OF THE DISADVANTAGES BROUGHT ON BY HER PREVIOUS SPORADIC EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES - A PAST THAT CHLOE WOULD EVENTUALLY START TO RESENT POPPY FOR. A SENTIMENT THAT ONLY BECAME MORE SEVERE WHEN POPPY DIVORCED PAUL FOR A PERUVIAN PLAYWRIGHT MANY YEARS HER JUNIOR WHO SHE WOULD LATER BIRTH A SON FROM. INFURIATED BY HER MOTHER'S CARELESS ANTICS, CHLOE SIDEDED WITH PAUL. IT WAS A DECISION THAT WOULD RESULT IN OVER A DECADE OF SILENCE BETWEEN THE TWO WOMEN.
GRADUATING HIGH SCHOOL A YEAR EARLY, CHLOE WENT ON TO ATTEND NEW YORK UNIVERSITY. IN A REVERSE FRESHMAN FIFTEEN, SHE SHED HER EXTRA WEIGHT BY LEARNING TO EXPRESS HER EMOTIONS IN MORE CREATIVE WAYS RATHER THAN THE TENDENCY TO OVER INDULGE THROUGH AN ON CAMPUS COUNSELOR. THE EXPERIENCE PROVED NOT ONLY EYE OPENING BUT ALSO LIFE CHANGING AS SHE DECIDED TO BECOME ONE HERSELF. EAGER TO WORK WITH CHILDREN TO HELP GUIDE THEM THROUGH THEIR ADOLESCENCE. SHE WOULD ALSO START QUIETLY PERFORMING SONGS WRITTEN ABOUT HER TROUBLED FORMATIVE YEARS IN LOCAL BARS AT OPEN MIC NIGHT AND FOUND IT TO BE ADDITIONALLY THERAPEUTIC - OUTSIDE OF THE OCCASIONAL BIT OF STAGE FRIGHT, AS WELL AS SURPRISINGLY WELL RECEIVED.
REGARDLESS OF HER OPTIONS BEING SEEMINGLY NUMEROUS AFTER LEAVING THE PRESTIGIOUS INSTITUTION WITH A MASTERS UNDER HER BELT, CHLOE WOULD WAFFLE A BIT IN THE REAL WORLD. MOVING BACK IN WITH PAUL SHE MANAGED A BOOK STORE FOR A YEAR BEFORE FINALLY SECURING A JOB AT A HIGH SCHOOL UPSTATE. SHE WOULD LIVE IN AN APARTMENT WITH HER THREE CATS AND OCCASIONAL ODD DUCK ROOMMATE COURTESY OF CRAIGSLIST FOR THE BULK OF HER TIME THERE. HER RELATIONSHIP WITH HER MOTHER CONTINUED TO BE EVEN FURTHER STRAINED WITH THE THE BIRTH OF HER HALF BROTHER SALVADOR. TO MAINTAIN A RELATIONSHIP WITH HER SIBLING SHE WAS LEFT NO OTHER CHOICE BUT TO REACH OUT TO POPPY AND THE TWO DEVELOPED A TENTATIVE TRUCE OF SORTS. ON THE OPPOSITE OF THE SPECTRUM, PAUL AND HER WOULD REMAIN ESPECIALLY TIGHT. EVEN AFTER HIS SECOND MARRIAGE TO A DELIGHTFUL WIDOW FROM SEATTLE WITH WHOM SHE QUICKLY BONDED WITH ALONG WITH HER SON WHO WAS JUST A FEW YEARS YOUNGER.
IN EARLY 2016 HER LIFE AS SHE KNEW IT WOULD START TO CHANGE DRASTICALLY. IN ADDITION TO BUYING HER FIRST HOME SHE BEGAN SERIOUSLY DATING FELLOW MUSICIAN AND FRIEND JAXSON SILVER. THE ROMANCE THAT WOULD CATCH HER OFF COMPLETELY OFF GUARD WOULD RESULT IN not only a PROPOSAL but a marriage by the end of the year. AS THEY BLENDED THEIR LIVES TOGETHER IN PERPETRATION OF A JOINT FUTURE which included a baby, SHE FOUND HERSELF OVERCOMING THE GHOSTS OF HER PAST AND was OVER THE MOON ABOUT WHAT lie ahead.
