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I was like a mutant when I was a boy. I learned to read when I was four years old; it was like a miracle.

I'm learning to accept everything that I am. I've accepted that I'm not going to be a stick-thin-model kind of girl. When I was 14, I was tall and spindly. By the time I turned 18, I had become a woman, and my body's not going to go back to what it looked like when I was 14.

I didn't want to feel constrained, so I took on the Mutants.

I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone has that when you're a teenager, especially, and especially in the society we live in.

I just wanted to fit in as a teenager, but it was hopeless.

I have never limited myself by focusing much on being a 'normal' teenager.

In the comic-book lore, of course, you mutate post a traumatic event. You must have the mutant gene, but if something traumatic happens to you, usually at puberty, then that mutation manifests itself.

Being a teenager is hard.

Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life.