In the Beginning…
Ricki Pamela Lake was born on September 21, 1968, in Hastings-on-Hudson in New York, to a secular Jewish family. Her mother, Jill, was a homemaker, and her father, Barry, was a pharmacist. Ricki was, however, mostly raised by her paternal grandmother, Sylvia Lake, for the first ten years of her life until Sylvia died in 1978.
Source: Instagram, @rickilake
Ricki released a book called ‘Your Best Birth: Know All Your Options, Discover the Natural Choices, and Take Back the Birth Experience,’ in 2009 (with co-author Abbey Epstein). The 7th chapter of the book discusses the time when, at the age of six, Ricki was sexually assaulted. She stated: “I’m not telling that story to sell books. I’m telling that story because you can feel violated.”
This is her story…