Megan Phelps-Roper is an American inspirational personality, author, blogger, and former spokesperson of the Westboro Baptist Church. She became a member of the church since the day she was born as her grandfather was a pastor of the church. Her beliefs in the preachings of hatred towards uncommon cultural development were quite strong. Her doubts took over when she took charge of the WBC Twitter profile to protest on social media and was confronted by other religious congregations. She was so devastated that she left her home and began to criticize the church for their false beliefs and unconventional preaching. Her story has made a big impact on actor and several other celebrities.
Sun Sign
Aquarius
Nationality
Education
Megan graduated from Washburn University in Topeka, with a degree in the field of Law. Later, she began working at a family owned law firm.
- Others – Catherine Idalette Johnston (Maternal Great Grandmother), Fred Wade Phelps (Maternal Great Grandfather), Fred Wade (Grandfather) (Founder of Westboro Baptist Church), Nathan Phelps (Uncle) (Author, Public Speaker)
Manager
Megan is represented by Charles Yao of The Lavin Agency.
Boyfriend / Spouse
Megan has dated –
- Chad Fjelland (2014-Present) – Megan met her husband Chad after she formed a mutual alliance with the Jewish blogger. The couple started privately messaging each other in February 2011. Then in 2014, just a couple of months after Megan had left the Westboro cult, she went on a date to Omaha with Chad and it was there that they fell in love with each other. Then on August 15, 2016, the couple got married at the beautiful Halsnøy Island in Norway.
Sexual Orientation
Straight
Distinctive Features
Beautiful eyes
Religion
She has lost faith in Christianity and does not practice any religion anymore.
Best Known For
Being a former member of the Westboro Baptist Church and for breaking free from their ways of preaching and picketing
First TV Show
Megan made her TV show debut on The Show in 2003.
Megan Phelps-Roper Facts
- As children, her brothers and sisters were isolated from the world.
- She spent most of her childhood as a front line picketer for every protest that the WBC held against different races of the society.
- Her mother Shirley is forbidden to ever enter into the United Kingdom.
- Megan was sent to study law at the same university, where her grandfather Fred Phelps had graduated from in 1964.
- Apart from Megan and her sister Grace, 2 more siblings have left the cult in the past. In 2014, according to reports from Capital Journal, Megan’s brother, Zach Phelps had left.
- She and were both members of the Westboro Baptist Church who chose to leave.
- She is the niece of Nathan Phelps, a public influencer, and son of the founder of Westboro Baptist Church.
- In 2017, according to The Kansas City Star, actress wanted to produce a feature film based on the life of Megan Phelps-Roper titled This Above All.
- In 2013, when Megan and her sister left the cult, their family had cast them out of their lives forever leaving the two to fend for themselves.
- Her life changed after she tried to prompt her beliefs of hatred on Twitter and was convinced that WBC’s preaching was unruly by a Jewish man named David Abitbol.
- On more than one occasion, there had been attempts of murder on Megan’s mother. In one such incident, she was nearly shot by a sniper.
- In January 2017, Megan spoke about her life as a member of WBC in front of the world on TED Talks.
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Featured Image by Megan Phelps-Roper / Instagram
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Facts of Megan Phelps-Roper
- Gender Female
- full nameMegan Phelps-Roper
- nicknamesMarie
- birthplaceTopeka, Kansas, United States
- Date of Birth January 31, 1986
- Age 38 years 9 months
- Horoscope Aquarius
- Lucky Number 11
- Lucky Stone Amethyst
- Lucky Color Turquoise
- Best Match for Marriage Aquarius, Gemini, Sagittarius
- ethnicity / ethnic backgroundWhite
- nationalityAmerican
- net worth$65 thousand
- professionFormer Spokesperson at Westboro Baptist Church, Author, Blogger, Actress
- weight65 kg65 kg or 143 lbs
- height5 ft 10 in or 178 cm
- hair colorDark Brown
- eye colorBlue
- body type / buildAverage
- motherShirley Phelps-Roper
- fatherBrent Roper