4. Her self-confidence all stems from a cruel childhood nickname.

"I had lice in third grade and my mom shaved all my hair off. Basically I had no hair, no boobs, and big muscles — I was so tall! I had a pretty masculine face and so my mom had me in a dress and everyone nicknamed me 'Tranny Danny.' Now, I didn't know what a tranny was — I was just a kid and we didn't have television. I didn't know these things and I thought it was somebody who was into trains. I actually had my mom buy me a conductor cap and I wore that for three years. Whenever someone called me Tranny Danny, I would be like, 'Choo choo, All aboard, motherfuckers!'

I had a nickname so I thought I was popular. I thought everyone was calling me this thing because I was the shit, essentially. I went into high school not knowing anyone and I had such high self-esteem because I thought I was popular. I actually ran for class president!

Halfway through my freshman year of high school I found out what a tranny was and I realized that my entire childhood had been built upon people laughing at me and I didn't even know. It was a little hard to swallow for a minute; I never thought I was masculine. There are sorority girls and then there are girls that are in action movies like Sigourney Weaver. I just thought I was an action kind of woman."