Jeremiah Thompson

**Education:** | Class of 2013
 **Housemates:** | Jake Sophet

* **Eye Color:** Brown
* **Height:** 5'5" (1.65 m)

Jeremiah has dark brown eyes and brown hair. His ethnicity is half Italian which comes from his father and half white which comes from his mother. He is not very tall and he gets that from his paternal grandparents who were 4'11 and 5'6. He actually doesn't want to grow anymore because he doesn't want to be too tall. Plus he likes his figure. He tends to work out often at the gym which is supposed to make him very muscular but it really does the opposite. He typically wears leather jackets, jean jackets, long sleeved shirts and collar buttoned shirts. He doesn't have a style, and he'll pretty much wear anything that doesn't have a brand on it and is plain or patterned.

When he was younger he used to feel like an outcast because he didn't fit into the partying scene plus, he wasn't popular and he didn't have the ideal body type most boys had in his school. Eventually after attending a seminar on body image and self esteem he stopped caring about that and learned to love himself for who he truly was.

On the first day of elementary school, they agreed to have each others backs. Ben told Jeremiah stories about big fifth grade bullies, wedgies and wet willies. Those things scared Jeremiah very much, he actually has never gotten over it and still has nightmares about it. He was actually very lucky he didn't get stuffed in a locker or get his head flushed in a toilet. After that he occasionally got bullied with or without Ben by his side but it never got to the point where it caused emotional trauma.
In high school, he started to feel different. Not different as in orientation but like in body image. He thought he looked like a girl because he was puny, skinny and everyone else including Ben had some form of muscle. He struggled with body image and guys picking on him for what he looked like. On a random Saturday he went to this seminar that his sister Jaime was supposed to go to but she didn't want to. When he sat down he noticed basically everyone else there was a girl. Much to his surprise, they didn't laugh at him but they thought he was brave for coming there. What he learned was that he should love himself for who he is. He also learned that it doesn't matter what's on the outside but what's on the inside.
After that, what the bullies said to him didn't matter to him and he simply just brushed it off and walked away. Soon in 2013, he graduated from Barfield High School and he applied to UMB which he got into. Currently he's a technician at Barfield Cable Company and he's in his junior year of college and he can't wait to graduate.

* **Gregory Thompson:** Greg is his father, whom he thinks of as a role model. Ever since he was little, Jeremiah has always wanted to be like his father and Jeremiah has done the most to impress his father by going into sports, trying to be popular and doing a lot of good stuff.
* **Melinda Thompson:** Melinda is his overnight and strict mother who doesn't like the idea of Jeremiah being away from home and plus alone. She's always babied Jeremiah and embarrassed him in front if his friends.