![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Nasty Gal Vintage featured vintage apparel and other items the first item sold was a book Amoruso had stolen as an adolescent. While working at the Academy of Art University, Amoruso opened an eBay store called Nasty Gal Vintage, named after the 1975 album by funk and soul singer Betty Davis. ![]() Shortly after discovering a hernia in her groin, she relocated to San Francisco, where she worked as a security guard at the Academy of Art University to pay for health insurance for surgery. While living in Portland, Oregon in 2003, Amoruso stopped thieving after she was caught shoplifting. Following her move, she carried out a peripatetic existence that consisted of hitchhiking, stealing, and dumpster diving up and down the West Coast. After Amoruso completed her high school degree, her parents divorced she subsequently moved to Sacramento to live a more liberated lifestyle. She got her first job working at a Subway restaurant, and then had a number of odd jobs at places such as a bookstore and a record shop. As a teen, Amoruso was diagnosed with both depression and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder as a result, she dropped out of school and started to be homeschooled. She is of Portuguese, Greek, and Italian ancestry, and was raised in the Greek Orthodox church. Sophia Amoruso was born on Apin San Diego, California. ![]()
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