My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron.

Growing up I was as big a tomboy as you can get.

I love leather and it's great to be a bad girl at times. But there is a time and place for everything. When I'm with Grandma it's flowers, and when I'm out on the town scoping guys, you know.

Well, when I moved to L.A. at 17, I had just come out of high school. I grew up and went to public school in Boston.

My mother would take groups of students to different countries and always brought us along, so by the time I was 10, I had been to Russia, China, Nicaragua and several other countries.

I'm self-confident and not afraid to speak my mind.

I don't care who you are, everyone has been through it - that feeling where you'd like to be someone else.