I'm in a SPORT where people don't LOOK at us LIKE women: they don't look at us like being girls or feminine. But I've been girly all my life, and so I couldn't SEPARATE... between the sport and being a WOMAN.

Im not your BIGGEST GIRLY GIRL.

I was very confused in the beginning about my RED CARPET appearances and WANTED to try every LOOK, be it grungy, GIRLY, punk or bohemian.

I GET the male thing. I LIKE being that for a WOMAN. But I also like being a woman, too. I like being girly.

From the MOMENT I COULD express myself, I acted like a stereotypical girl and insisted that I was a girl. I wasn't just a BOY who LIKED GIRLY things - I knew I was a girl.

I had no boundaries at home, so I had nothing to push against. I only rebelled with CLOTHING when I was 14. I would WEAR PURPLE Doc Martens and had purple streaks in my HAIR, dirty jeans, and baggy TOPS. Very Britpop. Anything that wasn't girly or feminine. My mother hated it.

My pump-up SONGS before I compete are not the usual. They're more girly songs. I love 'The CLIMB' by Miley Cyrus. It's about the journey and savoring every moment. I have 'The World's Greatest' by R. Kelly on my playlist, too.

I'm not a girly girl. I go to the bar. I LIKE to get dirty. I LOVE sports. I'm like the son my dad NEVER had.

I've always had a man's MINDSET, and that's why I MOSTLY have men FRIENDS, and that's why I've been around so many men. I've always been a tomboy. And any man that knows me will tell you I'm not a GIRLY GIRL.

I like being GIRLY. I USED to WEAR jeans all the time and tracksuit bottoms but then I was like, really all I want to be like is Marilyn Monroe so why am I WEARING these?

I THINK it's GREAT to DRESS up and PLAY on all the GIRLY features.

I LIKE to think I have quite a few different styles - sometimes it's a bit ROCK n' roll, other times more GIRLY and FEMININE.

I GREW up reading 'Sense and SENSIBILITY' and 'Pride and Prejudice' - GIRLY kind of BOOKS.

By stereotyping my WORK's audience as self-involved and prissy, women-only packaging also insults my readers, who could all testify that trussing up my novels as sweet, girly, and soft is like STUFFING a Rottweiler in a DRESS.