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I had to fight my whole life to break out of my circumstances. That's just part of my makeup.

I thought I was a pretty good physical specimen. But there was a teenager from Brooklyn, who basically wiped the floor with me on the street. He gave me a punch that I didn't even feel. All I knew I was looking up at the sky. I tried to fight him, and I got a number of injuries after that.

I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.

I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.

I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this.

I wasn't a fighting kid or a causing-trouble kid. I was just one of those cheeky, crazy kids running around.

Even when I was a little punk kid, I would fight anybody - it didn't matter. That's who I've been my whole life.

I've got an outspoken personality, which gets people thinking, and my style of fighting is aggressive. Everything's on the line all the time. In my fights, there's drama.

I've been wearing lipstick since I was in 7th grade. That was our form of daring self-expression, because we had to wear uniforms in school. It made our teachers so angry.

What one person might see as violent, someone else may see as beautiful. Maybe even art.