Tonight's episode of 'Escaping Polygamy' will see Rosie Barlow achieve out to her older sister, Yolanda, who effectively escaped the FLDS. Where is Yolanda now and how is she doing today?
Lifetime's Escaping Polygamy could be probably the most intense display at the channel these days. The sequence follows individuals of the Kingston Clan and FLDS who face the life-altering number of escaping the polygamist order and development a new existence for themselves within the free global.
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And fanatics who have been tuning into Escaping Polygamy because the early days may consider Yolanda Barlow, who the sisters helped escape again in Season 1.
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Yolanda is returning to the Order.
We'll be able to see how Yolanda's lifestyles has taken a turn for the easier when we see her go back to the Order on April 22nd's episode, with the hopes of rescuing her more youthful sister and getting her to escape polygamy, as neatly. "Rosie, she's scared because of what's brainwashed into her her whole life," an absolutely remodeled and made-up Yolanda says in a clip forward of the episode.
Back when she lived inside "the polygamist group, the FLDS," as she describes it, Yolanda had never worn make-up, watched TV in the convenience of her personal area, and even attempted on any clothes that were not the floor-length dresses the gang dictated. In fact, she stated she'd simplest been swimming in her full-length dress, because she was so uncomfortable with revealing her frame in a go well with.
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And while she does not feel sorry about escaping, Yolanda admits that leaving her family and the order in the back of was harder than she used to be ready for. "When I got out, I kind of thought it'd be real easy — I'd just get a job, go to school, get all my stuff together real quick, get a car," she mentioned in a clip posted by way of
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"But it's a lot harder than I thought. Over the course of about a month, I probably applied to about 32 different places trying to get a job, and my social skills weren't where they needed to be. It's so hard for me to just go up to a stranger and start talking to them because all my life I was raised, 'Don't ever talk to anybody out of the religion'," she said.
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Yolanda promises her sister Rosie that everything's "going to be OK."
When Yolanda returns to the Order 4 years after her get away, it is with one challenge in mind: rescue her sister Rosie. "I'm just pissed off at how a piece of s--t in a jail cell can have so much control over so many people," a annoyed Yolanda says between tears. But things get just a little more sophisticated when Yolanda learns that her and Rosie's mother knows that one thing is up and might try to foil the escape plan.
Fans can leisure assured that Rosie did arrange to flee with the assistance of her super courageous sister. "I know it has to be hard to enter a world that is largely new, but she'll do it," one fan reassured Yolanda on Twitter. After all, Yolanda is a super function type for how to find your method in the real international after leaving the confines of FLDS, and we're sure she's going to assist her little sis out.
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Follow Yolanda on Twitter.
Yolanda's come the sort of long way since her days within the FLDS that she's even adopted social media! Though she's now not on Instagram, Yolanda stocks her updates — and a lot of Escaping Polygamy content material — over on her Twitter page. She's even become something of a fitness blogger, and has been posting inspiring workout pics of how she managed to shed 80 lbs.
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Yolanda also stocks one of the crucial heavier truths she's needed to take care of since escaping the Order. "Kids my age don't know how to take responsibility," she wrote a little over a 12 months ago. "If I have trouble with anything, I have to figure it out and take responsibility. I can't just call mommy and daddy to fix my problems like you do."
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And more recently, she shared a message with lovers of Escaping Polygamy who don't understand why some former members attempt to take their furniture with them on their escapes.
"The thing that everyone needs to realize," Yolanda wrote, "is that when you leave polygamy you have nothing at all, little to no education, and not much support. So when people take their bed, dressers, etc, it's because they get out and have absolutely NOTHING."
Yolanda also retweeted a statement from any other former member who echoed her sentiment, "Also people need to realize that when we leave we have no job, no savings (most of the time), and we need our furniture. It's expensive to go buy all that when you're just out trying to get on your feet!"
Watch Escaping Polygamy on Mondays at 10 p.m. on Lifetime.
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