From the very beginning, Depp has always had a bit of a wild streak, according to her website. As a kid growing up in South Florida, she often drew on her dolls and cut off their hair, despite drawing the ire of her mother. After that, she graduated to drawing on paper with makeup, a foreshadowing of her later creativity.
When she became a teenager in the 1970s, she found her inspiration in people who bucked the norm. "At fourteen, my biggest influences were musicians, groupies, models, drag queens, and actors and actresses," she wrote on her website. Citing David Bowie especially, Depp knew she was not interested in being a part of the mainstream. So, while her peers in school were studying to be doctors and lawyers, she was shaving her eyebrows, dying her hair, and rocking some off-beat clothing.
And being different never bothered her. "I was considered a freak among my peers, but the ability to be creative was more important to me than fitting in," she noted. And that spirit is clearly still within her today.
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