One of the things you have to consider when you start working in this business is what you choose to tell your family.

I think this is a harder choice for women as there is a very negative stigma that is attached regardless if you work behind or in front of the camera.

My parents are pretty progressive thinking for a Southern family with roots in the bible belt and a Southern Baptist upbringing.

So there never was a choice for me even as a hobbist when I...