38 years have passed since that incredible turn of events, but those two and a half days have defined much of Jessica’s life.
“In a way I guess it happened the way it was supposed to,” she told PEOPLE in 2017.
Almost four decades on, Jessica now has children and grandchildren of her own. In 2019, she revealed that the Baby Jessica moniker has survived to this day.
“I have people that that’s how they associate me,” she told PEOPLE.
“I actually told a lady the other day at work that I was the little girl that fell in the well, and she was like, ‘Oh my gosh, you’re Baby Jessica!’” she said.
As per PEOPLE, Jessica still lives in rural Texas with her husband, Danny, whom she married in 2006.
Coincidentally, Danny remembers watching the news on the day when his now-wife was pulled from the well on October 16, 1987. He was 13 at the time, and learned of the rescue operation’s success while at a football game.
“They stopped the whole game to say, ‘Baby Jessica has been rescued,’ ” Danny said. “It was pretty cool.”
The couple reportedly share two children named Simon and Sheyenne. They’ve given her grandchildren in turn, Emiliano and Nolan.
Jessica revealed that when her daughter, Sheyenne, was in elementary school, her teacher showed the class a video about the incident after learning that Sheyenne’s mom was Baby Jessica.
