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Vehlanzzi Puertar
Vehlanzzi-Madeleine Ivangeline Vitalloni Puertar (born July 26, 1995), known by her nicknames Vee and Lanzzi and by her own first, first name Vehlanzzi, is a British-African-American teen internet star, web show producer, entrepreneur, amateur model, and public figure but wants to be addressed as an average American citizen. The young teen is mostly known for her web reality series show Fine Time at the Heights, produced by her own production company Reprobate Mentality Inc., where she stars as herself and portrays the role of an average American citizen. Born in Flint, Michigan but moving her whole life and not seeming to be able to settle down until her teen years has caused her to frequently switch elementary schools and even high schools very often. All that can really be remembered through all of this nomadic chaos is her high schools which included the International Academy of Flint in Flint, Beecher, Michigan or formally addressed as Beecher Middle/High School in the Mount Morris, Michigan area of the Beecher Community School District, Flint Northern High School back in Flint, Michigan on the north side, and most recently or either currently attending Flint Southwestern Academy in Flint, Michigan on the south side. Other elementary schools she attended were in Indiana, Mississippi, Georgia and Michigan; although none of the names of the schools were remembered.

Early Life
Vehlanzzi-Madeleine Ivangeline Vitalloni Puertar was born July 26, 1995 in Flint, Michigan to a mother and father whose names have yet to be revealed. All that is currently known about her father is that he is currently a full-time commercial truck driver for an unknown company. He now stays in Flint, MI on the north side near her old school Flint Northern High School in a pretty moderate neighborhood, but he has informed Puertar in February that he would be moving his family (excluding Puertar and her older brother) out to Jacksonville, Florida. Puertar says "It's not that we [Puertar and brother] can't go with them [the family] because we're always welcomed and we've always been a very close-knit family! We normally always do everything together, but since my brother and I have moved out, coming along would only be an option that we chose not to do and not a family event that we were already included in against our will." Puertar's father's family include his wife (Puertar's step-mom), and his two little girls (Puertar's two little half-sisters). Puertar's birth mom hasn't yet been revealed as well, but it was mentioned that she no longer works due to her mental disability Schizophrenia and her no longer occurring physical health disability Diabetes. Puertar's mom is no longer Diabetic, but the Schizophrenia has taken a toll on her life and her relationships with many people esp. Vehlanzzi Puertar.

Domestic Violence & Child Abuse
Since Puertar was a young child, she's been in many one-way altercations with her mother. This means she's been victim to domestic violence; Child abuse in particular. Puertar has been physically and mentally abused by her own mother prospectively from ages 4-8. She says she can remember her first abuse, but she can't remember going to certain schools that have been documented on her school record and she can only remember having a handful of friends. The first time Vehlanzzi can remember being mentally abused by her mother was when she was 4 and starting pre-kindergarten. She said it started out with her mother hitting her for simply things like not remembering how to spell her name or tie her shoe. "My mother's always had this very intimidating voice and she didn't really have to raise it to let you know she was upset, but when she did, she said unforgettable things that should not be said to a 4-year-old. Her intimidating voice and her saying those distasteful, heart-wrenching words was enough for a sensitive, people-loving 4-year-old like me to become traumatized." When asked what type of things her mother would say, she replied "Oh, well, she would say things like, 'I'mma get my friends to jump you...' and 'None those girls at school like you...' Just degrading things that a child shouldn't hear coming from their own parent's mouth! It's very heart breaking!"

Puertar's mother told her that she would get her friends to jump on her a few times but not quite often. This occurred once when she and her mother stayed with her grandmother in Georgia and it also happened once more when her, her mother and her baby brother stayed in a South Bend, Indiana homeless shelter. Luckily, that was at age 8, the last time any abuse has ever occurred between mother and daughter. The abuse abruptly stopped when Puertar's grandmother called for her father who was staying in Michigan at the time, not too far from South Bend, Indiana, to come and get Puertar because her mother was having another episode. Proud father of four came rushing the very next day to get Puertar and bring her back home to Michigan with him and his family, claiming legal custody over his first born and warm-heartedly welcoming her as a new addition to the residence.

Added Personal Issues
Aside from domestic abuse, Puertar had other issues to deal with. At age 7, she lost one of her very best friends and the only one who understood her well which was her grandmother on her father's side. She can remember being home from school in a different part of South Bend, Indiana and staying with her grandmother on her mom's side who had legal guardianship over her. "I can remember what I was doing like it was last week," she says. "I had just come home from school and my grandmother was preparing me lunch while in bothered my pet cat, Tiger, who was locked behind the basement door ... After pestering my cat, I sat down to a cold-cut and Hot Cheetos™ and I took one bite out of my sandwich before the phone rang. Little did I ever expect, it was my dad. My grandmother came back after a little while and sat down all serious and stuff. She was like 'Do you want the truth, or do you want a story?' And I expected nothing, so I said 'The truth,' and she was like, 'That was your dad on the phone.' At that point I was already in shock be it's only been my lifelong dream to speak with him, but then she finished. She said 'He was calling to tell you your grandmother just passed.' I immediately started crying rivers and I can remember her grabbing me into her arms..."

Puertar claims to not remember how she carried herself throughout the following days, but apparently it was a significant change. Shortly after, Puertar was enrolled into a therapeutic place for teens and young children at risk called Madison Center and Hospital which is a local mental health facility. Puertar would visit here every Tuesday after school with two counselors and a group of other girls to have discussions, although, Puertar was never quite sure what none of the discussions were ever about. She never really spoke upon any discussion unless she was asked to speak except one time when she told the group that she liked gambling. In fact, she loved it. "So all of the girls were talking about gambling and it all started when one girl mentioned how were mother was a compulsive gambler or something like that. Then the counselors were talking about how bad gambling was and the girls went around the table one-by-one confirming that they didn't support gambling. But me, being the sweet little 7-year-old who didn't want gambling to feel bad said 'I like gambling.' Everyone just stopped and looked at me but my mind never really processed that maybe I had said something wrong because at the age, I knew everything. So one of the counselors and a few of the girls tried to confirm had I said something I really meant and I said, 'Well, yeah! I love gambling!' Everyone was again in shock until one of the girls asked had I even known was gambling was and I just sat there quietly but I'm pretty sure the look on my face confirmed that I didn't. None of them ridiculed me, but they did try to explain what gambling was. I still had no idea what they were talking about because I had never been exposed to that type of environment, so I just nodded and acted like I agreed but somewhere inside, I still had feelings for gambling (laughs).' She says she'd never spoken up about anything again unless she was asked but she broke out of it in her teen years

Also, Puertar went every other Thursday to see an individual psychologist to talk about her own issues. They met in a more sporadic manor rather than on schedule. "We were scheduled to meet every other Thursday, but sometimes we met Friday, sometimes we met Wednesday, and even one time immediately after counseling!" The psychologist was also in Madison Center, actually right around the corner from where Puertar did counselling, "first door on the right." There were no issues on making it there on time right after counselling. Puertar remembers having good times at Madison Center like going to their school-like gym and playing jump-rope with some other girls from different counselling classes and her whole counselling group leaving Madison Center on foot to 7/11 Convenience Store right up the street for slushies. Unfortunately, aside from all the counselling and therapy she's had, including seeing a therapist names Dawn who worked in the South Bend homeless shelter and hanging out with her mom's social worker who also worked in the homeless shelter, Puertar feels she never got the required amount to attention needed to cope with her mental trauma. Instead, she claims her mind has its own way of dealing with it all. When she met up with her mom's mom for the first time in December 2012 since she moved with her dad at age 8, they did some catching up. Puertar's grandmother was mentioning things like schools she's gone to and life events that she's been through, yet Puertar never recalled any of it happening. "I started to think okay she's old, just disregard it. But then, she started mentioning things around those schools and life events that I started to remember and maybe would have never remembered had not she brought any of it up. This was jogging my memory, and yet, I still didn't remember going to certain school's she named or going through some of the life events she mentioned but I'm 100% convinced they happened." Puertar went on to say, "I guess my mind just has its own way of dealing with things it doesn't want to deal with, which is by completely burring it or locking it up and throwing away the key..." Puertar referred this doing in her song Good For Nothing when she said If it was alright I'd give you the key to unlock my mind and discover a world of secrets from such a corrupted young girl But I can't let all that I've been through here in my head leak out to meet you...

Moving On
After moving with her dad in 2003, Puertar has had a chance to settle her nerves and let her mind do all the burying as she enjoyed memorable times with her new family. Puertar's father is a traveler and her family enjoys going along on for the ride. Every summer, to this day, Vehlanzzi's immediate family on her dad's side takes annual summer trips to the metro states of Michigan but mainly Ohio for Cedar Point near the fourth of July to see the fireworks, and best of all Illinois for Six Flags Great America to see the fireworks off of Lake Michigan in Chicago. Even in Michigan, Puertar says her family knows how to have a good time and that "the party don't start 'til they walk in because they are the party" In fact, everything is well and Puertar claims to not have anything to complain about. "It's just that when I was going through my teens years I felt a bit misunderstood and I said and did and wrote some things I regret ever saying, doing and writing. I felt like my mom [step-mom] and I couldn't really get along because there was just to many minor things that happened between us and I feel it was all my fault so at 17 in the winter of 2012, I just moved out and went to live with my aunt." Puertar says her family on her mom's side doesn't do as much travelling and haven't been to some of the places she's visited such as Crossroads village in Michigan, but is okay with because "I'm about to be 18 and then I can do all the travelling I want." The only problem is, "...my aunt says I'm not grown until I'm 21 and even then I can't have a long-desired Margarita on my birthday." Puertar concluded by saying, "I love and absolutely adore my family no matter what they do. They say things like that and it's makes me laugh. My family is always very entertaining on both sides and I love both sides equally because they both claim to love me more than the other! If that's not blood, then what is?"