Jean Furella Carson

Jean Furella Carroll
Birth Date	1910
Birth Place	Schenectady, New York, USA
Death Date	March 20, 1903
Occupation	performer
Website	none

Jean Carroll (born in 1910 as Jean Furella) was a tattooed lady and a bearded lady from Schenectady, New York.

Biography

Jean Carroll was a genuine bearded lady (most are gaffs) who traded her natural abnormality for a man-made one. Carroll has a beard since she was a little girl. She joined the circus at the age of 10. She eventually met and fell in love with a contortionist/sideshow talker named John Carson. He loved her too, but couldn't get passed the beard.1 She removed her beard for him through electrolysis. She became a tattooed lady instead and got tattooed by Charles Wagner. She also began working as a stripper. In 1951 her husband died.

While working at Coney Island she met a sideshow talker named Larry Rapp. She married him April 30, 1953.2 3