"Where I live around no one's pressured me to be Wayne Gretzky's daughter. Where my parents have brought me up my entire life no one's pressured me, and now I think is the time to show that I have talent as well as my family and they've just brought me up so well."
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Gretzky was born in Los Angeles, California, five months after her parents - former NHL player Wayne Gretzky and actress Janet Jones - married in a lavish ceremony broadcast live throughout Canada.
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