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Born in Manhattan, New York, raised in New Jersey and California, she traveled all over the United States, most of Europe, Brazil and the Bahamas. She lived in Monte Carlo, Monaco for one year and spent another near Cape Town, South Africa. She began to gain weight at the age of 9, when her mother put her on a diet, and further gained at 15 when using illegal diet pills. Following years of failed diets and divorce from a husband that wanted her to be a size 12, Betsy accepted herself as a BBW in 1993 at 309 pounds (which she attributed to dieting).
[[File:Betsy01edit.jpg|thumb|220x220px|Betsy at 170 lbs. in 1988]]
Betsy became one of the earliest open feedees on the internet, with her images featured on Feeders.co.uk. She was featured in [[Dimensions Magazine]], [[BUF Magazine]] and a [[Dimensions Wide Angle Video Productions|Wide Angle Video Production]] titled ''Dimensions Presents: Besty's Food Fantasies - Passion for Food''. She eventually opened BBWSanctuary.com, a resource for size acceptance, and SupersizeBBW.com, which featured pictures and movies of her gaining journey. She married a German feeder named Stephen and moved to his home country, where she continued to gain.
In total, Betsy was featured in four movies chronicling her weight gain journey, from 316 pounds to over 500 pounds, which were formerly available through her website on CD-ROM.
{| class="article-table"!!#!Title|-|[[File:316betsy01 small.jpg|thumb|100x100px]]|1|''Betsy at 316 lbs.''|-|[[File:Bbwbetsy15.gif|thumb|100x100px]]|2|''The Feeding Fantasies of Betsy: Betsy at 410 lbs.''|-|[[File:Bbwbloated small.jpg|thumb|100x100px]]|3|''Betsy: Still Growing After All These Years - Betsy at 462 lbs.''|-|[[File:Dsc 077 small.jpg|thumb|100x100px]]|4|''Betsy Over 500 lbs.!''|}
Partial slips from Betsy's movies can now be purchased from Bountiful Productions' Clips4Sale page [https://clips4sale.com/17763/bountiful-bbw-17763/Cat0-AllCategories/Page1/SortBy-bestmatch/Limit10/search/betsy here]. The full movies may still be available for purchase by contacting Bountiful Productions directly.
Betsy was also a writer and poet, and has been a published author since 1973 including numerous non-fiction articles on size-acceptance, a hardcover book, two screenplays, two teleplays, and hundreds of poems. Betsy comes from a long line of writers; her great-great grandfather was a "poetmeister" in Germany, her grandfather wrote the editorial page for Hearst's Journal American, her mother was an advertising copywriter and teacher, and her daughter, Raven Demers, is a published poet.
In 2002 she penned the children's book ''The Big Happy Bear: For Children of All Sizes'', which is available in paperback on Amazon and digitally on Kindle. The book was written to help fat children with issues of self-esteem.[[File:51XxxKe1ohL.jpg|none|thumb|330x330px|''The Big Happy Bear: For Children of All Sizes'' can be purchased from Amazon [https://www.amazon.com/Big-Happy-Bear-Children-Sizes-ebook/dp/B007FNQIJM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1493367038&sr=8-1&keywords=bear+betsy+bogert here].]][[Category:Apple]]
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