Janine Lindemulder had the blue glove half on when the photographer took the picture that would define an era.
That Enema of the State cover, released in 1999, turned her into a silent pop-punk icon: she also appeared in the video for “What’s My Age Again?” and her face circulated through millions of teenage bedrooms without almost anyone knowing her name.
What came next was anything but iconic. In 2008, she spent six months in prison for failing to pay 300.000 dollars in taxes. She married Jesse James, owner of West Coast Choppers and Sandra Bullock’s ex-partner, and with him fought a custody battle over their daughter that became public and grueling. By 2011, she had already accumulated several arrests over court orders related to James, all linked to harassment allegations. The woman frozen on an album cover lived, off-camera, through a decade that no image could capture.
