Madi grew up Catholic in Chicago, part of a tight-knit extended family where everyone lived within half an hour of each other and weekends meant everyone together. Her parents' separation gave her unusual mobility as a teenager — she bounced between states, cycled through five high schools in three years, and when she finally landed back at the school she started at, they told her she didn't have enough credits to graduate. She walked. She got her GED before her friends crossed any stage, and went straight into the working world, pulling double shifts between two restaurant hosting jobs in the same mall. Waitressing still makes her nervous, she says — something about taking orders genuinely frightens her in a way that stripping never did. That contradiction is very Madi: Catholic upbringing, close family, and a career she disclosed to every cousin herself, personally, before anyone else could. She wanted them to hear it from her.
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