I was in high school for the beginning of 9^th grade and then I was homeschooled. I like to say I got the best of both worlds because my parents wanted me to be able to experience normal childhood memories and experiences and to be able to go to homecoming games and the dances, yet I was able to come out here and live my dreams.

We come from Long Island, New York and my mom’s side is Sicilian and and my dad’s sad is Calabrese. Everybody has Christmas lights and you still go pumpkin picking at Halloween and make jack-o-lanterns and church,and every Sunday dinner my dad makes sure that we’re always at the dinner table every night, like seven, eight o’clock, whatever the time is. We can’t miss. We’re never not together for dinner, so it’s a really big deal in my family.

Every Sunday is meatballs and pasta and a feast for the army that my mother cooks up. We’re loud, we’re crazy, we’re very close knit, very traditional. My family had the biggest part in who I am today, just keeping me grounded and teaching me to respect myself and have morals, because some girls lost that out here in Hollyweird.

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