I was born two months early, weighing less than four pounds, on October 20th. Shortly after that, my Family moved to Guadalajara, Mexico. In 1972 we settled in Saltillo, Coahuila where my brother and sister were born. My family moved back to the United States in 1984. After graduating high school, I traveled the world with “Up With People” for a year. Then from 1992 to 1994 I traveled back and forth to Europe as a fashion model.

Eventually I came back to the US, settled down (for about a minute!) and went back to school. In school I changed my major several times, and kept leaving the country to go see the things that I studied about in school. I was one of those students that got bored in the classroom, but loved traveling to the places I learned about in class. I also loved a good adventure, and adventures didn’t come in the classroom, but they did come when traveling alone through Europe!

In 1995 I started competing in Fitness and Bodybuilding… I loved it! Then in 2002 I had one of the greatest adventures of all, I got to be a Gladiator on the Swedish version of “American Gladiators”, or Gladiatorerna in Swedish!