Johnny Culpepper Bundy

Just before his fourth birthday, Eleanor moved to Tacoma, Washington.

There, she met and married Johnny Bundy in 1951.

They formally adopted Ted when he was five years old.

The couple had four children together, but Ted reportedly didn't form a close bond with his new family and still believed his mother was his sister.

So that's where it all started.

And then she met, uh, Johnny Bundy, who became her husband just not long after she moved out.

She got a job.

She got busy and started establishing herself.

I'm, I'm almost exactly five years younger than Ted.

So, uh, were, did you actually grow up for a while in the same household even?

No, 'cause by then she had married Johnny Bundy, and they had their own place, and they were living their own lives, and she was having child after child during that time.

And but we did spend time.

Just before his fourth birthday, Eleanor moved to Tacoma, Washington.

There, she met and married Johnny Bundy in 1951.

They formally adopted Ted when he was five years old.

The couple had four children together, but Ted reportedly didn't form a close bond with his new family and still believed his mother was his sister.

Just before his fourth birthday, Eleanor moved to Tacoma, Washington.

There, she met and married Johnny Bundy in 1951.

They formally adopted Ted when he was five years old.

The couple had four children together, but Ted reportedly didn't form a close bond with his new family and still believed his mother was his sister.