Editing Fiona Apple (section)

==Early life and education==
Fiona Apple was born Fiona Apple McAfee-Maggart on September 13, 1977, in [[New York City]] to singer Diane McAfee and actor [[Brandon Maggart]], who met when both were cast in the Broadway musical ''[[Applause (musical)|Applause]]''.<ref name=lee>{{cite news|last=Lee|first=Dan P.|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130209001851/http://www.vulture.com/2012/06/hiding-out-with-fiona-apple-musical-hermit.html|archive-date=February 9, 2013|url-status=live|url=http://www.vulture.com/2012/06/hiding-out-with-fiona-apple-musical-hermit.html|title='I Just Want to Feel Everything': Hiding Out With Fiona Apple, Musical Hermit|date=June 17, 2012|work=[[Vulture (website)|Vulture]]|access-date=June 19, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/05/arts/a-message-far-less-pretty-than-the-face.html | title=A Message Far Less Pretty Than the Face | last=Ehrlich | first=Dimitri | work=[[The New York Times]] | date=January 5, 1997 |access-date=April 19, 2020 |url-access=registration}}</ref> Her father is from [[Tennessee]], and through him, Apple has [[Melungeon]] ancestry.<ref name=wtf /> Her maternal grandparents were dancer Millicent Green and [[big band]] vocalist Johnny McAfee. Her sister Amber sings [[cabaret]] under the stage name [[Maude Maggart]], and actor [[Garett Maggart]] is her half brother. Apple grew up in [[Morningside Gardens]] in [[Harlem]]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2QKeg6Q9KAwC&q=fiona+apple+harlem&pg=PA94|title=Harlem Travel Guide|last=Johnson|first=Carolyn D.|year=2010|page=94|publisher=Welcome to Harlem |isbn=9781449915889}}</ref> with her mother and sister, but spent summers with her father in Los Angeles, California.<ref name="notable" />

She attended the private Episcopal school [[St. Hilda's & St. Hugh's School]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/fiona-apples-shameika-lives-in-virginia-is-amazed-by-song/2521763/ | title=Fiona Apple's 'Shameika' Lives in Virginia, is Amazed by Song | website=NBC Washington| date=December 27, 2020 }}</ref> and later [[Alexander Hamilton High School (Los Angeles)]],<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-oct-05-ca-39318-story.html | title=What a Drag It is Being Young | website=[[Los Angeles Times]] | date=October 5, 1997 }}</ref> as well as being homeschooled. Apple was classically trained on piano as a child, and began composing her own pieces by the age of eight.<ref name="notable">{{cite web|url=http://www.notablebiographies.com/newsmakers2/2006-A-Ec/Apple-Fiona.html|website=Notable Biographies|title=Fiona Apple|access-date=September 5, 2014}}</ref> When learning to play piano, she would often take sheet music and translate [[guitar tablature]] into the corresponding notes.<ref name="notable" /> Apple later began to play along with jazz standard compositions after becoming proficient, through which she discovered [[Billie Holiday]] and [[Ella Fitzgerald]], who became major influences on her.<ref>{{Cite news|work=Tribeca 75|title=Fiona Apple|date=1996|author=Bevilacqua, Rachele|url=http://www.neverisapromise.com/interviews/Tribeca.html|series=Interviews}}</ref>

Since childhood, Apple has struggled with [[obsessive–compulsive disorder]], [[Mood disorder|depression]], and [[anxiety]], and has also been diagnosed with [[complex post-traumatic stress disorder]].<ref name=nussbaum/> At age 12, she was raped outside the apartment she shared with her mother, step-father, and sister in Harlem.<ref name="heath" /> She subsequently developed an [[eating disorder]], purposely slimming her developing body, which she saw as "bait" for potential predators.<ref name=heath/> "I definitely did have an eating disorder", she recalled. "What was really frustrating for me was that everyone thought I was [[anorexia nervosa|anorexic]], and I wasn't. I was just really depressed and self-loathing."<ref name=heath/> She also described how her OCD developed into [[avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder]], requiring food to be a certain color or shape.<ref name=wtf /><ref name="heath" />

After the rape, Apple began attending [[Model Mugging]] classes, practicing self-defense,<ref name=nussbaum/> but continued to suffer [[panic attack]]s while walking home from school, which led to her relocating to Los Angeles to live with her father for one year.<ref name=wtf /> In Los Angeles, Apple attended [[Alexander Hamilton High School (Los Angeles)|Alexander Hamilton High School]] for her second year.<ref>{{cite web|work=[[Yahoo!]]|title=This Los Angeles High School Doubled as a Porn Set|last=Spata|first=Christopher|date=October 9, 2015|url-status=live|url=https://news.yahoo.com/los-angeles-high-school-doubled-231528351.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200417233337/https://news.yahoo.com/los-angeles-high-school-doubled-231528351.html|archive-date=April 17, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://articles.latimes.com/1997/oct/05/entertainment/ca-39318/3|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=October 5, 1997|title=What a Drag It Is Being Young|author=Hilburn, Robert|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150908010740/https://articles.latimes.com/1997/oct/05/entertainment/ca-39318/3|archive-date=September 8, 2015}}</ref>

In a 2000 interview, Apple stated that, despite speculation from journalists, she did not write songs about the trauma surrounding her rape: "It doesn't get into the writing. It's a boring pain. It's such a fuckin' old pain that, you know, there's nothing ''poetic'' about it."<ref>{{cite news|first=Phil|last=Sutcliffe|title=Hard Core Pawn|magazine=[[Q (magazine)|Q]]|location=London, England|date=March 2000|pages=46–48}}</ref>