Cupcake Brown Obstacles allow people to learn a lot during their journeys about their own Identity. Her childhood is what sparked the bad events that would come in the future. Many horrible things went on during her time in foster care. Her years as a teenager wasn’t any better than her childhood. She started to realize what was important to her in her adulthood. Cupcake Brown’s life is shaped by her experiences she had along the way. Her birth name was La’Vette Brown. When her mother was pregnant with her she always ate cupcakes. After La’Vette was born the nurse asked what she wanted to name her and she said cupcake and then passed out. The nurse interpreted what her mother said as La’Vette’s name. Her birth father changed her name to La’Vette, but her mother always called her cup. She has one brother but she hates him. Her mother got married, but not to Cupcake’s real father she always thought that he was her real father since she didn’t remember her real father When Cupcake was just eleven years old, her mother had died of an epileptic seizure. She called up her dad and told him that her mom was dead, he told her to call the cops and she did. After her mother died, La’Vette, her brother, her father, and he uncle Jr. had to go to the Judge to decide who the kids would stay with. The judge said that since her father wasn't her real father, he doesn't have the right to keep the kids since their birth father was still alive, the judge sent the kids to live with him and all he did was drop them off at a foster home. The foster home was terrible, Cupcake and all the other kids there were repeatedly beaten and the foster mother, Diane, put locks around the refrigerator and the kids were forced to turn on each other in order to get food. Cupcake was raped by Diane’s nephew. Cupcake’s brother ran away and he didn't come back so she decided to run away and she