Elsa Chang

Often when people are planning to run for president, they write an autobiography.

Your new memoir is out this week.

Why does now feel like the right time to be telling everybody your life story?

What do you mean?

What's different about yours?

One of the things that I learned about you for the first time when I was reading this book was

was how you kind of felt like a dork growing up.

I mean, you were bullied in high school.

You wondered how to remake your image, which led to the whole origin story of your now famous hairstyle.

I read that.

You decided.

That's what I want to ask you because you decided you wanted to look like Pierce Brosnan from the TV show Remington Steel.

Explain why that was the solution to your teenage problems at the time.

She said you weren't helping her luck in high school.

Yeah, the gel.

Whatever that substance was.

But it stuck, so to speak.

I mean, you did live sort of a split screen reality between growing up with your single mom and then

the occasional proximity to the Getty family.

And you do acknowledge that you were a beneficiary of that proximity.