![]() ![]() "'These dreams aren't just going to fall on your lap. You have to do it,'" Eckstein recalled her mother saying. "And they once again used it as a lesson and said, 'OK, all of those wishes that you have been making upon all those stars? Now you need to be it. Then, on Christmas morning when she was in the third grade, she received a hat emblazoned with the phrase "Don't dream it. Often, the family watched the fireworks at the Magic Kingdom at night, and her mother prompted Eckstein to wish upon a star. Growing up in Orlando, Florida with a father whose claims to fame include bringing the turkey legs to Disney World, Eckstein and her parents visited the theme park regularly - a practice her parents used to impart life lessons on their young daughter. "You can definitely say that I grew up Disney," she told us at her Los Angeles office last year. ![]() Eckstein, 37, credits her boundless optimism and determination to her unique childhood. Throughout her 20-year career in Hollywood, she's established herself as an on-camera and voiceover star, founded her own apparel company, written a popular memoir It's Your Universe, and became an anti-bullying advocate for the geek fandom community. ![]() ![]() Ashley Eckstein has never felt there was a dream she couldn't achieve. ![]()
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