Jessica McClure Morales, now 30, says most of 1987 trust fund lost in 2008 market crash

PHOTOS: Baby Jessica rescued from Midland well In this October 1987 file photo, rescue workers carry 18-month-old Jessica McClure to safety in Midland, Texas after she was trapped for 58 hours after she plunged 22 feet into an abandoned water well. Click through to see more images from the event... less PHOTOS: Baby Jessica rescued from Midland well In this October 1987 file photo, rescue workers carry 18-month-old Jessica McClure to safety in Midland, Texas after she was trapped for 58 hours after she ... more Photo: Eric Gay/Associated Press Photo: Eric Gay/Associated Press Image 1 of / 132 Caption Close Jessica McClure Morales, now 30, says most of 1987 trust fund lost in 2008 market crash 1 / 132 Back to Gallery

According to reports Jessica McClure Morales has lost most of the trust fund that was set up for her in the days after being rescued from an abandoned well in a Midland backyard.

For a few days in October 1987 the story of Baby Jessica, cold and alone at the bottom of the backyard well, was international news.

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Crews worked tireless to get Jessica out of the well as she lay injured, hungry and thirsty. The world was captivated by the ordeal and rejoiced when she was finally rescued.

Money was donated to her family – her parents were poor teenagers -- and a trust fund was created. She even met Vice President George Bush and his wife, Barbara, who were former Midland residents, when they visited her in the hospital. President Ronald Reagan called her, too.

There was even a TV movie made about those few days, starring Beau Bridges and Pat Hingle.

This week People magazine checked in with Morales, 30, who is now a mother herself of two school-age children. She and her husband Danny live a quiet life Midland, with Jessica working as a teacher's aide and Danny a foreman at a piping supply outfit.

Morales told People that she lost a great deal of her trust fund dollars in the 2008 stock market crash. The $1.2 million dollars might have been a lot of money in 1987 but, 30 years later, not so much. Danny and Jessica did buy the home their family lives in with some of the funds.

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According to People, residents in Midland still refer to her as Baby Jessica. By all appearances she is a normal Texas mom like any other, with puppies and kids in her backyard.