Well guys, let the online proposals continue as the aptly-nicknamed “bikini teacher” is back in circulation!
Tiffany Shepherd, the Port St. Lucie High biology teacher who caused a media frenzy when she said she was fired over her skin-revealing side-job, filed for divorce on the third birthday of her youngest boy, May 27.
On Wednesday, the soon-to-be Playboy model proclaimed: “Yep, I’m single, and I could use a boyfriend. I hope there’s someone for me out there. I need $6,000 for my lawyer’s bills.”
Citing “irreconcilable differences,” she’s asking a St. Lucie County court in Fort Pierce to order construction superintendent Benny Shepherd to pay child support for their two children and divide up their marital assets.
According to records, the couple was married in Fort Pierce in 2001, nine months after she sued a former boyfriend to determine the paternity of a son born in 1999. The Shepherds had two more sons of their own, now 5 and 3.
“I always have the same problem with guys and it happened with my husband,” said Tiffany Shepherd when asked about the split. “At first, it’s all sweet and exciting even when other guys pay attention to me. But then, it gets old to whomever I’m with.
“My husband once told me I was too pretty to be his wife. His new girlfriend’s bikini size is a 13 … I’m a 3.”
Benny Shepherd couldn’t be contacted.
Photogenic Tiffany, 30, exploded onto the Web in April when her firing led computer users to pictures of her taken on the Fort Pierce-based Smokin’ Em Charters. She had become a maid on the boat, serving amateur fishermen their booze in a teeny bikini.
St. Lucie County school officials, by the way, claim she was fired for missing work, nothing else.
In addition to agreeing to pose for the aging girlie-magazine-that’s-purchased-for-its-stories, Shepherd this week retained a lawyer to make sure the state doesn’t go after her teaching certificate.
“My health insurance is running out,” she said. “I need a job. I have a feeling I’m blackballed by schools in the state, but I’ll give it the good old college try.”
