"I was miserable. I was a miserable young teen. I was absolutely . . . I felt very much like Nadine. I felt like a misfit toy. I was. I felt completely abandoned by my group. I felt like I was so not popular. I was desperate to be popular. I got ganged up on a lot. I remember, this just tells it all. I have this curly kinky hair, and all the cool girls had stick-straight hair. Totally waspy, stick-straight hair. (Not that waspy is bad.) My hair was very curly. At night I would wet my hair I would pull it down really straight. I would press it against my head and lie down on the pillow and just hope I wouldn't move all night. And hope that miraculously my hair would wake up straight. That is such a, that is such a symbol of someone who is fighting a losing battle. Fighting to be this person they're not. To me, that's what a teenager is. It's so painful. That's what is great about the movie. It's so painful but so funny. And so real. We can all relate to it."
