Talk about a woman with a lot of love to give. Emily Horne, 30, has been married five times -- most recently to 25-year-old Ashley Baker in 2007. Thing is, the former escort and bartender never technically divorced hubby number one, which means her last four husbands didn't actually marry her. Sigh.
Yep, in this case it's not the a man who's loading up on wives -- it's a female polygamist who's racking up husbands.
Horne convinced Baker to marry hastily by telling him she had cancer. Another big lie.
Read more about this nightmare bride after the jump.
After the "wedding," the marriage magnet admitted her polygmatic ways to Baker, on what must have been the worst honeymoon ever. During a train ride to Scotland, she showed Baker news clippings and even confessed to serving jail time in 2004.
While he may have been excited to hear that she didn't have cancer, Baker couldn't have been too excited about the tattoo he'd gotten of Emily's name on his neck. (Better than 56 stars on his face.)
Still, he stayed with her for 10 months, believing their relationship was real.
Web of Lies
So what's with this always-a-bride-never-a-bridesmaid chick? A former friend says, "She just likes wedding cakes and dresses!" For example, she wore a black gown and dramatic silver choker to wedding number four.
At one point, she claimed to be engaged to one man, then began a relationship with another, married the second, and moved in with him at the home of the third "husband" -- explaining to her latest spouse that their roommate was just a friend of hers.
The men she's left in her wake are far from happy about the deception. "She wore a lacy thing over her head on her wedding day," her first husband told the U.K.'s Daily Mail. "It's a pity it didn't go round her neck." Ouch.
On the upside, Horne (who's now facing jail time again) is finally receiving treatment for bipolar disorder, and she regrets any hurt she caused her former "spouses."
Does this woman like weddings way more than the average person? Or is she mentally messed up? And what did these dudes see in her?
More cool stuff from around the Web:
Awkward family photos -- more painful than a sham wedding? (Asylum)
Seriously weird theme weddings (Lemondrop)
Some folks never get lucky -- seven real people with insanely bad luck (Cracked) 
Real-life videotaped proposals... where she said "no." Ouch! (AOL Personals) 
Study: Men like food more than sex (Asylum)
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Wednesday 24 June
By mamatukol
It's not a female polygamist (which means a female many women) but polyandry, which means many men.
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Thursday 25 June
By bellagrlxitalia
interesting... i was hoping they all knew about each other lol and lived together lol
Thursday 25 June
By AM
Actually, polygamy just means multiple marriages...you're thinking of polyGYNY, which is the opposite of polyandry.
Thursday 25 June
By Samuel W. Garner
Good reply I also took Cultural Anthropology 101 and have ever since spotted this misnomer in the media. Good Job
Thursday 25 June
By mldspenser
Doesn't the use of polygamy, polyandry, and so on imply that the multiple spouses and the "boss (whether mall or female)" all live together? This woman was committing the crime of bigamy repeatedly but she kept the husbands ignorant of each other.
Like bellagrlxitalia, I was hoping to get details of how they all got along together and how they worked out who did what when. With so many husbands, I hoped that she never had to nag to have the trash taken out or the grass mowed.
Thursday 25 June
By Linda Mitchell
I'm not sure where your definition comes from. I understand that it is from the greek "polus" (many) and "gamos" (marriage). I do not think there is a reference to mail versus female in the word.
Thursday 25 June
By Diane
Actually, the term polygamy infers marriage to more than one 'spouse' at a time. Although the term may also refer to polyandry (marriage to more than one man), it is most often used as a synonym for polygyny (marriage to more than one woman).
Thursday 25 June
By Rosemary
That's what I was going to say. You'd think with the internet, "journalists" would check things before they write them. It's not like it takes any effort.
Thursday 25 June
By Jharris352
I belive the word is Bigomy. Polyigamy is not illegal.
Thursday 25 June
By ah825
Actually, polygamy means more than one spouse. While it's usually a wife, the word usage in this article is correct. Polyandry itself does mean more than one husband, but polygamy is not gender specific.
Thursday 25 June
By frebyrd35
I thought bigamy was multiple marriages. Polygami is married to only one person but has one or multiple families are live-in-situations
Thursday 25 June
By christine
I was just going to leave the exact same comment. Thank goodness there is someone out there that knows the correct terms. Female polygamist...bhahaha.
Thursday 25 June
By Mary Ellen
Well another person with bipolar and will receive social security and health insurance for the rest of her life. She was smart enough to do the things that she has done and got away with it, so what better way then to act crazy and all will be excused because she is suppose to be ill. I know at least 4 people who claim to have this bipolar and only one that I can say that really has something wrong with her, all the others say they were diagnosed with it but they get the meds for free on SSI and then toss them away and on top of that they get close to 800.00 dollars a month with all the benefits and the biggest kicker is they have jobs making like 400.00 a week under the table. It makes me sick, these are young kids who know exactly what they are doing and me, myself I have MS and had a bad relapse and I was barely able to function or walk right and the pain among other thing associated with it and I could not get any help from social security or anyone and hearing how many cases there are with bipolar I wonder how many are real, because I know for a fact there are people playing this sick game and winning and others who really are sick and need it get nothing! Now that's sad.
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Thursday 25 June
By Amy Thomas
What IS sick is YOU lashing out at people with bipolar disorder. Shame on you! Not only was your comment completely ignorant, but as a person living with a disease yourself I would think you would be a little more compassionate. This story is about ONE sick person and does not speak for the rest of us. You are in pain? Imagine having that physical pain but mentally and multiply it by 100......
Love,
A person living with bipolar disorder AND MS
Thursday 25 June
By Shirley Craddock
you are so right about the disability. people really that need it can't get it. i know of one lady who used her back to get she also rode workmans comp all the way and it still pays her doctor bills me myself have eplispy and recently had back surgery i am unable to hold any job that entails heavy life repertive work or prolong standing. i cannot get even disabilty. but the people who are not disable enough does get it. i think we need to overhaul some of the programs to which people who really needs it can get it without have to spend thousand of dollars for a lawyer and still get denied.
Thursday 25 June
By Liz
Before you start finding any excuse to spout off your unwarranted views, you may consider reading the article. This woman is European. The last time I checked, SSI was uniquely American.
Thursday 25 June
By newyorkelle
I don't think you need to worry. It appears they are from the UK. Hope this helps you sleep better this evening.
Monday 29 June
By Parauntie
It's not "this bipolar ", it is a seriously debilitating disorder. My 13 year old niece was diagnosed 2 years ago with BPD and finally put on the correct medication and I can't begin to tell you the differnce it has made in her (and everyone she lives with) life. She still has episodes and can't be trusted with money or left to take care of herself (and probably never will be), but she is more stable and able to notice the beginning signs of an episode and try to control it. Yes, she gets SSI and Medicare, but her meds are almost $1,000 a month and she has therapy that is in the hundreds of dollars a month. This is going to be a situation she must live with for the rest of her life. The likelyness of her holding a full-time, self-sustaining job, is slim. She will always need help and support from an external source. Right now that source is me, but who knows who and/what it will need to be in the future.
If you ever knew anybody that actually had BPD, you wouldn't say the things you are. Here's a suggestion: Don't talk about things you know nothing about. And as far as this bride, she probably is bipolar and in a manic episode, irriational actions/decisions is a hallmark trait of BPD. Learn about what you are dispariging, don't make ignorant (uneducated) statements and spout them as facts.
Thursday 25 June
By nikole
O come on she's not divorcing these guys so its not like shes marrying a bnch of men to get their money when she divorces them. I think its hilarious. So shes a bit nutty and likes weddings. A lot. If these guys are this dumb to not know her better (come on the new hubby didnt know her other hubby was living with her? didnt he wonder who this guy was that she was living with?? Dont guys talk to each other when all of a sudden a new guy is around?) its their own fault....
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Monday 20 July
By nolka
you have a great point here, that looks more at the social interactions than a medical one. WHERE were the hidden cameras on his REAL LIFE situation?? I'm not one for watching these reality shows. After a while they are scripted like a soap opera. If there had been a hidden camera, then we would have learned a little on how this woman opperated. I really have my curiosity sparked on this one on HOW did she live with one "husband" and date her future spouse at the same time? What an incedible play on human behavior to be able to spin the web of lies long enough to fool these men. Yet the same has happened where some men have multiple wives. They are a little less involved with complicated arrangements, so these wives are spread out to where there would be a very small chance of them ever meeting each other. This woman lived on the thrill of danger. Have your date come over and meet your husband, face to face, both men unaware of the other's role. Or have them pass each other in the hallway and know about each other. being a former Escort and Bartender, one does pick up on the vulnerability and practice of deception on the clients, and have an ear out for those who can be a target. This is where the hidden cameras would come in. Telling the public how she met these men, (a guess here would not be hard), and wham, blindsided. On the thinking side of this woman, perhaps she became bored with just loving and leaving these men. Always an Escort, and never a bride...
Genius, no divorce required. It definately would have been quite the interest to see the challenges this woman would have had in having 5 husbands, or less, live under the same roof as hers. On one hand, sometimes one husband is too many, yet on the other, they could share the honey-do list. BUT... sigh, the trash would still be left behind for her to take out............