“I got back in shape, started walking, then I started running. I would write to my mom and tell her how sorry I was for disappointing her.” It took time, but she found mental healing through the physical. “I thought about all the beautiful women on stage I wanted to be, and I looked at myself, bald with crossed eyes and a tube in my throat, and thought I could never look beautiful like this. But with an almost unrecognizable appearance, her self esteem was bruised. While recovery seemed impossible, her mom was there through it all: including brain surgery and six months of rehab. “I woke from a coma to a collapsed lung, a swollen brain, and barely able to see,” Cruz remembers. I ended up becoming really good friends with a girl who turned out to be a bad influence, and I really paid for it.” The two were in a terrible car accident as a result of drag-racing, which nearly claimed Jackie’s life and swiftly changed the course of it forever. “I moved out at 16 because I thought I was a little rebel.
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The path to finding self love and a fulfilling career was quite literally full of complications for Jackie. I would write to my mom and tell her how sorry I was for disappointing her. Then I got back in shape, started walking, then I started running. “I thought about all the beautiful women on stage I wanted to be, and I looked at myself, and thought I could never look beautiful like this. The two gave her the ability to stay put in LA and try her hand at acting, as inspired by the talented - yet uniformly attractive - women she grew up watching on television.
Despite frequent changes in location, the few constants in her life have remained: a desire to perform and the unconditional love of her mother. From the DR to Queens to LA, Jackie has grown up a little bit of everywhere. I’ve always been that way.” With a cast full of woman on set of the Netflix Original Orange Is The New Black and a female-dominated Dominican upbringing, 28 year-old Cruz has a surplus of inspiring women in her immediate surroundings - the primary one being herself. “I’m most comfortable in all-female environments. Jackie Cruz is a Girl’s Girl on and off camera.
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