I've always been a creative speller and never achieved good grades in school. I graduated from high school but didn't have the opportunity to attend college, so I did what young women my age did at the time - I married.

I flunked three grades before I got out of high school.

I've always been a huge proponent for education; I graduated high school at 14 years old and graduated college at 17 years old.

For me, sports is a big part of my life. It helped me through high school. It helped me get better grades, because if you don't have good grades, you can't play sports.

Everyone is told to go to high school and get good grades and go to college and get good grades and then get a job and then get a better job. There's no one really telling a story about how they totally blew it, and they figured it out.

I went to school and made good grades and went to college. So I was afforded an opportunity through my parents' hard work that most people don't have.