My Mom Said I Was A Handful.

I'm A Performer. I've Just Been One Since I Was A Little Girl. I Used To Pretend All The Time.

And I Was Ashamed Of Myself For Feeling Like I Had To Do That In Order To Look A Certain Way. I Felt Misshapen, Just Not Natural Anymore. And I Think It Was A Big Stimulator Of My Drug Use.

My Husband And I Are Very Different. Our Company Is Called Syzygy Industries, Which Can Mean A Pair Of Opposites. And That's Exactly What We Are. Yet There Is Obviously A Very Strong Pull Toward Each Other.

Now All Of A Sudden I'm So Less Interested In Pretending To Be A Lot Of Other People, And Much More Interested In Being Me.

My Husband Once Said He'd Never Met Anybody Who Walked So Fast And Ran So Slowly. As I Said, It's A Little Hard For Me To Try New Things, And This Was Me Facing A Fear That I'd Had My Whole Life. Since I Had No Experience Running, I Felt Like A Failure Before I'd Even Begun.