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Toy Stories

You gotta be tough to survive in Port Charles, and anyone who's ever seen Carly swing a baseball bat at a battie or Courtney wield a weapon knows that doesn't go for the guys. Luckily, their portrayers Tamara Braun and Alicia Leigh Willis respectively logged a lot of "tough chick" hours as children, much to their dismay of their dolls! "I would actually burn the legs of my sisters Barbie dolls," admits Willis. Her confessions elicit an understanding laugh from Braun, who says, "I took Barbie dolls and shaved their heads and put them in dye." Ah, the joys of childhood! But the extreme dolly makeovers didn't stop there! "I'd put pins in them," recalls Braun. "I was sick!" Although Braun says she wasn't exactly a tomboy growing up, the beauty doesn't deny that she wasn't all sugar and spice and everything nice. "I was a big dork," the actress proclaims with a big simile. "Stringy, curly, knotted, snarled up hair that was always messy. "And no wonder! Like Carly, Braun wasn't one to sit and watch life pass her by. "I'd love to climb trees and stuff like that. I played in the dirt. But they I definitely had my very girly side, too."

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