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The subject of this article:

  • exists in the Forrest Gump novel canon (including Gump & Co.)
  • is not mentioned in the Forrest Gump film canon
  • exists in real life (see Wikipedia article: Tammy Faye)

Tammy Faye is the wife of the Reverend Jim Bakker. She is described by Forrest to look "like a Kewpie doll with eyelashes long as a dragonfly's wings an a lot of rouge on her cheeks."[1] She is presumably unaware of her husband's relationship with the younger Jessica Hahn.

References[]

  1. Groom, Winston. Gump & Co. New York, NY: Pocket Books, 1995. Page 113. Print.
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