Kelly Curtis cycled through a variety of jobs on her journey to becoming the first Black American skeleton racer at the Olympics.
“My favorite was background acting,” Curtis once told Air Force Recruiting Service Public Affairs. “I was a vampire on one show and nobody did a double take when I was walking around Magazine Street in New Orleans in my costume. It was just another Tuesday night there.”
Occasionally, as she juggled odd jobs and long Olympic odds, Curtis had to decide between buying dinner or securing another precious training run to sharpen her skeleton sliding skills.