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Brooks Nader took a leap of faith into Hollywood and never looked back.

Nader, 28, was born in Baton Rouge and raised in an "extremely Christian and extremely conservative" household with her mother, father and three younger sisters.

The "Love Thy Nader" star always fantasized about pursuing her big-city dreams but told Maxim magazine her parents were "totally against" the idea.

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"For the majority of our childhood, my dad was working for a non-profit, and my mom was at home with the babies," Nader recalled. "We didn’t have a lot of money. We really just had each other and had to be self-entertaining. I wouldn’t t

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