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- Chyna Chyna Info Has one sister, Kathy, and one brother, Sonny. Her sister is five years older and Joanie says she's her best friend and "like a mother". Joanie and Kathy used to work out together, wrestle each other, and at one point Kathy was considering getting into wrestling too. Her mother, Janet, had "revolving door marriages" and her father, Joseph, was an alcoholic. She has no contact with her parents and says she wouldn't want to ever be around them. She describes it as "a very dysfunctional family". Was kicked out of her house when she was 15 and traveled around Europe while living on her own. She won a scholarship to the University of Tampa and graduated in two years with a 3.8 GPA. Says she always had a job and made her own money. She sold beepers, was a belly dancer, and sang in a "hole in a wall" band with, what she describes as, "old geezers". She was also a bartender and a cocktail waitress and worked for a 900 number -- while dating an abusive man who was into drugs! Attended flight attendant school, but near the completion of the course, she was in a car accident in which two people were killed which caused her to change the course of her life. She has a great voice and also plays the cello! She likes to knit! Has a boxing license but joined the World Wrestling Federation just prior to her debut fight! She was an independent wrestler for a while under the name Joanie Lee. At the beginning of her wrestling career Joanie taped an interview for Eric Bischoff asking him if she could join WCW! Was never a fan of wrestling when she was younger and even says she hated it! As a teenager, she flirted with bulimia to get herself down to a size 4. |
