When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen a building over two stories high.
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I moved from a mountain with one traffic light to New York City when I was 17, and it was an amazing, eye opening, creative adventure. I would walk through the streets of Manhattan looking up at these huge buildings, amazed that I didn't know a single person in any of them.
It was only when I moved to New York that I realized tall is good.
I grew up in New York, and for the first ten years of my life, we lived across from the Metropolitan Museum. When I was an adult, I moved back to that neighborhood and lived there again.
I did children's theater when I was younger, and then when I was about 14 I started doing theater in New York City.
I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.
I don't know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can't see it.
I used to go to school in Manhattan with a bunch of the City Kids.
I was a girl from Massapequa, New York. I grew up in Massapequa. I lived in a basement with one window.
I was at a public school until I was in sixth grade when I moved to New York.
When I was 15, I was scouted at the mall by Elite Model Management. I started to go to New York on the bus in high school, which was about four hours door-to-door from my hometown, until I moved to New York and lived in models' apartments all over.