The star, who is now famed for her good looks and svelte figure, was desperate to emulate her small feminine friends - but had her plans scuppered by her mother's insistence on boyish home-haircuts.
She says, "I was a real tomboy. My teacher used to write on my report card, 'Michelle is one of the biggest girls in class.'
"All I wanted to be was to be one of the petite little girls but my mother always cut my hair in a pixies and there was nothing feminine about me."
Source: WENN