>> it's made me a lot more self-assured. i'm definitely a lot more assertive than i used to be. >> clara tells me as a young girl shy was socially awkward, insecure and shy. she liked theater and sang in the choir. but in high school, these aren't the things that make you high popular. >> did you get teased a lot? >> oh, yes, in elementary school, high school, middle school. my family wasn't well to do, so boys and girls are going to cut you down about that. you're terrible, you can't sing, you look weird. you have glasses. >> how a shy girl found the courage to enter a strip club and climb on stage is hard to fathom. but once she did, clara found the val dagdz that escaped her all those years. >> i like to go to work and be told i'm pretty all day. >> who are you on this stage? >> i'm just this other person.