
Tidbit: For those who don't know, here is some quick info on Gina: Her real name is Gina Joy Ragenelli Carano. She was born April 20, 1982 in Dallas, Texas and moved to Las Vegas, Nevada when she was 13. She is the middle daughter of a former Dallas Cowboys quarterback. Her parents divorced when she was 12. Her father stayed in Dallas and she moved to Las Vegas with her mother and younger sister. It was around that time she began to experiment with alcohol and drugs such as marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy, and other pills to deal with the pain of their divorce and the breakup of the family. She admitted she was partially influenced by her older sister who was at college at the time and was also addicted to drugs at the time. After a tumultuous high school tenure filled with trouble and arrests as well as watching her older sister overdose and almost die, she quit drugs and found solace in fighting and martial arts. She trained very seriously for many years and worked her way up the ranks of Muy Thai fighters. She went on to become a champion fighter in women's MMA and is known as the "Face of Women's MMA". She was undefeated until losing in 2009 to Sylvia "Cyborg" Diaz. Since then she filmed her first feature film Scarred and has not fought since. She continues to model and appear on magazine covers, recently winning "Sexiest Woman in Sports" crowned by Maxim, beating out tennis star Maria Sharapova, U.S. soccer goalie Hope Solo, and race car driver Danica Patrick.
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