Few albums have a cover as immediately, viscerally recognizable as Blink-182’s Enema of the State. This 1999 record turned three idiots from San Diego into one of the biggest rock bands on the planet, and the image that came with it, a nurse in a red bra and a blue latex glove, became as much a part of the cultural furniture as the songs themselves.
Fifteen million copies sold. A generation of teenagers permanently imprinted. Travis Barker’s career launched into the stratosphere. And somewhere at the center of all of it, largely unrecognized behind the makeup and the uniform, was a real woman with a story that is considerably more interesting than most people ever thought to ask about.
