My mom got me into some commercials, and I basically, I guess, just got out of my shell I was in at the time because I can't remember. I've just been blessed ever since.
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My mom put me in a Pampers commercial on TV.
When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
I started as a teenager going up on commercials.
My mom had an audition for a commercial when I was about two and a half, and I ran in crying and interrupted her. They thought I was cute so they offered me a commercial role. My mom was skeptical and a bit nervous about the child actor thing, but I was extremely bossy and convinced them I wanted to try it.
Shortly after my dad died, my mom figured that if I could do a few commercials, I'd get a college fund.
When I was two and a half or three, my mom got a call from someone asking if wanted to go on an audition. I ended up getting the job; it was a commercial for Hasbro. It was my first audition and first commercial. I just had to smile and laugh and dance around.
I bugged my mom and dad to 'get me inside the television set' when I was about four years old.
Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in.
I remember being 24 in Los Angeles. And up until that moment, when my mom would call my cell phone and it would ring, I would be flushed with some sort of excitement that we all have - a little dopamine rush, when my phone rings - and I'd look down, and it would say, 'Mom.' It used to feel like a job to pick that up.
When I was in college in Chicago, I was doing a lot of commercials - that was my bread and butter.