Born Fighter

This is what Uma Thurman has to say about her formative years. "I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird", said Uma. "I was maybe 5ft 8in when I was 12, that's pretty damn tall. When you're a girl and you're tall and you look much older and have a vocabulary and look people in the eye, it's not out of confidence, it's out of simple honesty and directness. It's a challenge to be yourself because you're not emotionally capable of dealing with what the world will throw at you just because they think you can take it."

Clearly, she was not comfortable with herself. Coming from a respectable background, she had it in her to fight her own demons. She did and how! We love the present day sword fighter who slayed her demons.