Forty years ago, Jennifer Lee was miserable in middle school. Her parents had got divorced and she had moved to Rhode Island with her mother and sister. She was, by her own account, “always a mess. Stains on my clothes … knots in my hair … chubby.
“I was born into a very modest life,” she says today. “I was a kid with ADHD; terrible in school. I don’t think people ever thought I could amount to anything.”
