 After high school, she attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York.Large moved to Portland, Oregon in 2002, originally planning to quit music and attend the Western Culinary Institute, but at the urging of friends and in particular Frank Faillace, owner of the Portland rock club Dante's, she began singing again with a band she called "The Balls".Large is bisexual, though she dislikes the term and instead calls herself "sexually omnivorous."