Victoria was born upstate New York to a father who owned an auto body garage and a mother who was raised in the south. This combination made for a fun balance between tomboy and debutante. Picture a prom queen but instead of a tiara, a bandana and instead of a gown a pair of denim, grease covered overall shorts from working on cars and motorcycles all afternoon.

After attending college she moved to NYC and worked at a boutique law firm for four and a half years. Right before Christmas in 2000 she went to London for a friend's birthday party and, making a typical American mistake, she leapt into the street one evening, looked left and was hit by a car coming from the right traveling at about 40 mph. After four days of being paralyzed from the waist down due to a pinched nerve she came to the realization that she didn't want to work at the law firm anymore. The man who hit her was from India and believed that there was a reason this had happened. She felt the same and was very inspired by his hopefulness. Turns out he was friends with someone in the movie industry and she was interested in the production of films. They spoke every Friday for months and after rehabilitating her legs he made a call. The following Monday she was on the midtown movie set of Bad Company working with the producer Jerry Bruckheimer. She did that until September 11th, 2001.

Life was turned upside down on that tragic morning. She remained in NYC to attend seventeen memorial services and then her friend suggested she move to LA and stay with her for a while. So she did. She took that entire first year off and did nothing but paint, swim, drive up the coast in her little red convertible, play golf and enjoy what California had to offer - nice weather. After that year she was offered a job at Innovative at Ford and worked there for 18 months. At the same time she was also on a comedy show with Chelsea Handler called Girls Behaving Badly. You can see one of her many episodes here: http://youtu.be/iKrElyRsJqk

After working at the agency and in front of the camera she eagerly returned to NYC. She was out west for two and a half years.

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