Trust Issues
But it wasn’t only their family that had questions; people from all over the world got concerned with trying to find out the facts of the affair that Schwarzenegger and Mildred had been having. [T]he affair that Schwarzenegger and Mildred had been having had a lot of people curious. As a direct consequence of this, the mother and son continued to get more attached to one another up until the time came for them to return to California.

Trust Issues
After things cooled down, they returned to Bakersfield and enrolled in high school, where Joseph discovered that even his friends saw him differently. Baena started high school poorly, unsure how to handle social issues and distrusting classmates.
No Luck at Sports
At Frontier great School in Bakersfield, Baena had great hopes that if he participated in sports, it would help him fit in better with the student body. Baena, on the other hand, came to the conclusion that he wasn’t cut out for athletics after failing to make the cut for both the basketball team and the soccer squad during tryouts. This was especially true when considering his physical appearance.

No Luck at Sports
“In high school, I was truly rather overweight. “Like, really overweight,” Baena explained to Unwaxed. But then a friend pushed him to join the swim team, which changed his life forever.

