Little Bear, right, found love with polyamorous Satanist, Tobias Bradick. Photo / Facebook
At the age of 14, "Renee", who would go on to change her name to Little Bear, began shaving her face to keep the dark hairs sprouting on her chin a secret.
Diagnosed with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome - a condition that affects fertility and can cause excessive hair growth -
Little Bear eventually decided to stop trying to control her facial hair. In 2014, having settled in Seattle, Washington, she won a competition for "Bearded Ladies", called Whiskerinas, and went on tour with a sideshow for four years, according to metro.co.uk.
While she's gone on to make a name for herself online, thanks in part to her unique look, when she found herself without a partner in 2017, she feared she would be single forever.
Sharing her concerns on Facebook, she was contacted by a man named Tobias Bradick, who asked her on a date. According to metro.co.uk, the pair had met in 2014 through an online polyamory group but it wasn't until Bear's Facebook comment that things moved forward between them.
After a year together, the couple were engaged and in late February tied the knot in a somewhat unusual ceremony: Little Bear is a Christian and now-husband Bradick identifies as a Satanist. But the new bride says it works, claiming their code of ethics is actually the same.
