That same trip, she wore a patriotic jacket and clutched her LV puppy as though someone threatened to take it away from her.
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And she held onto it while signing autographs in 1994.
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Harding came from a poor family in Portland, Oregon—a focal point in both the biopic and the new interview—so it’s easy to understand why she might cling to her LV-logoed bag, a symbol that by 1994, after years of blood (not all of it hers?), sweat, and tears, she had picked herself up by the skate laces and earned her new lifestyle.