Madi says she deals with her troubles by traveling, and over the past year she has been to France, India, and Japan, and within China to Yunnan, Shanghai, Xiamen, and Qingdao. After graduating university in 2005, Madi took a string of magazine jobs before becoming a freelance photographer. On her right arm, she has a tattoo of the logo for After 17, the e-magazine she started with friends.