April Jeanette Mendez是美国作家，前职业摔跤手。她最为人所知的是她在职业摔跤推广WWE的戒指名为AJ Lee。
When I was really little, I wanted to be a wrestler so I could be like the girls I looked up to. My brother then told me that 'You don't want to be like your idols; you want to grow up and be better than them.' To this day, that's the best piece of advice I've ever gotten.
当我很小的时候，我想成为一名摔跤手，这样我就可以像我仰望的女孩一样。 然后我哥哥告诉我：“你不想像你的偶像一样； 你想长大并比他们更好。 '到目前为止，这是我所获得的最好的建议。
It wasn't cool that I didn't comb my hair and had books and wore glasses. It was never cool be a nerd and tomboy, and these days, it really is. And I'm like, 'You guys have no idea what I went through.' How many times my mother yelled at me to comb my hair.
我没有梳头，读书和戴眼镜并不酷。 做一个书呆子和假小子从来都不是一件很酷的事，如今，确实如此。 我想，“你们不知道我经历了什么。 '我母亲大喊大叫我梳头。
Everything I was told should be my greatest insecurities and weaknesses, everything that I've been labeled - short, nerdy, skinny, weak, impulsive, ugly, tomboy, poor, rebel, loud, freak, crazy - turned out to be my greatest strengths. I didn't become successful in spite of them. I became successful because of them.
告诉我的一切都应该是我最大的不安全感和弱点，我被贴上的所有标签-矮小，讨厌，瘦弱，虚弱，冲动，丑陋，假小子，贫穷，反叛，大声，怪胎，疯狂-原来是我最大的 尽管有这些，我还是没有成功。 因为他们，我成功了。
When I was diagnosed, I believed my illness would be my great, lifelong weakness. Bipolar disorder was to be my impenetrable prison, and I would be locked up with it in a castle Princess Toadstool style. Thinking there was no way out, I let it consume me.
当我被诊断出疾病时，我相信我的疾病将是我一生的巨大弱点。 躁郁症是我的牢不可破的监狱，我将以城堡毒菌公主的风格将其关在监狱里。 认为没有出路，我让它消耗了我。