At age 20, Tina Griffin left the Wisconsin farm where she’d grown up milking cows and bailing hay and drove 2,000 miles to California to take her shot at acting. She was a working actor for 10 years, appearing in movies and TV shows.
Over time, Griffin became aware of the gap between the roles played by her fellow actors and their lifestyles off the set. Many of them were glamorizing or at least prompting negative behavior and values on the screen while sheltering their own children from such influences.