Donna Howlett - What Is She Made Of?

Donna was born outside of Sydney, Australia. As a very small child, her dad took her away from her mother to live on a farm with a stepmother and three step-siblings who were older. She was fed and housed. That was it. 

Without saying more, Donna’s torturous childhood was a combination of horrible abuse from her male siblings, her stepmother and sister, and extreme bullying at school because of the limitations she had; a little girl enduring Forest Gump-like braces on her little legs until she was ten. 

But thankfully she lived on a horse farm and her love of horses and riding abilities brought her close to competing for Australia in the Olympics at the age of sixteen.