Christine sizemore biography

American depicted in The Three Faces of Eve (1927–2016)

Christine Costner Sizemore (April 4, 1927 – July 24, 2016)^[1] was an American woman who, in the 1950s, was diagnosed with multiple personality disorder, now known as dissociative identity disorder.

Her case was depicted in the 1950s book The Three Faces of Eve, written by her psychiatrists, Corbett H. Thigpen and Hervey M. Cleckley, upon which the film of the same name, starring Joanne Woodward, was based.

Christine sizemore biography

She went public with her identity in the 1970s.

Background

Sizemore was born Christine Costner on April 4, 1927, to Asa "Acie" Costner and Eunice Zueline Hastings in Edgefield, South Carolina.^[1]

In accordance with then-current modes of thought on the disorder, Thigpen reported that Sizemore had developed multiple personalities as a result of her witnessing two deaths and a horrifying accident within three months as a small child.

However, in Sizemore's own report, t