The 24-year-old Philly-tough tomboy, who got the party started on 2001's 12-million-selling "Missundaztood," was proudly behaving naughtily -- smoking, drinking, engaging in same-sex lip-locks for ...

I felt I would only be taken seriously as a young girl if I stuck adamantly to the tough character of a tomboy. I had to pick only one true label, to fit in a categorical box — even if I had to ...

A third explained that she refuses to use it because there is nothing boylike about being active, athletic or tough. Hundreds of readers commented on an article about the term “tomboy” and how ...

“It was tough, but afterwards it was the biggest rush ... She says: “At school I was a tomboy, I didn’t have a solid group of friends. When I was 9 I had a day off school sick and stumbled ...

Then, the recovery aspect was also tough. "I wasn't allowed to work ... she felt like "one of the boys," when she was living her "tomboy dreams." But then, around the age 20, she started to ...

Tomboy, sexist though the word may be ... The message to them is that if they veer too far toward masculine — being tough, rejecting dresses and skirts, wearing short hair — they’re no ...

She’s now revealing why she embraced a tomboy look in her early days ... has decided that she is allowed to be smart, beautiful, tough, sexy, bold, shapely, radical and have “strong thoughts ...

Max was the cool tomboy skater who had the highest score on Dig Dug, and Sink, with her vibrant red hair and permanent scowl, embodied her tough girl attitude perfectly. In the next season ...