 At the age of eighteen, she left her hometown and headed for New York City with dreams of pursuing her passions for singing and dancing, later appearing in several film and television productions such as "High Incident", "Lowball" and "Alchemy".Two years after arriving in New York, Girardi married and had a son, however she later divorced the father and move to Los Angeles and waited tables.Whilst waiting table, Thomas Girardi, a renowned attorney, frequented her workplace and the two fell in love and later got married.