Growing up with three older brothers and being the youngest and the only girl, my mom always made me tough. She's taught me over the years how to be a strong, independent woman, how to carry yourself in a positive way and anything that my brothers can do, I can do.

Of course I want to bring home a gold medal, and that's what I'm planning on doing. For me, that's not pressure. It's a chance to show the world who I am.

It was natural for me to go to local tournaments with my mother and watch my brothers compete and sometimes be left with my mom at home while my dad would take my brothers away to different tournaments and competitions. So I started doing everything they did.

If people look at me and, certainly, my brothers, and they see strength and guts, they'd have to know my parents. If they wanted to know why we're so close as a family, that closeness comes from my mother and father.

It just runs through my family, to be honest. I come from a very big musical, entertainment background.

Almost every time we get together with family or friends, the conversation ends up being about food.

Growing up, it was very clear that I was a member of a royal family with a potential function later on. The question was: when and how and if?

My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man-made religions.