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Famed wedding dress designer Vera Wang, who herself was a figure skater, has designed many of Kwan's costumes. These costumes cost a minimum of $20,000 to make. In 1999, she appeared in the Michelle Kwan Figure Skating computer game. Kwan always wears a good luck necklace (a gold dragon necklace) that her grandmother gave her. She finished 11th grade with a 3.8 GPA and 12th grade with a 3.9 GPA, for a cumulative high school GPA of 3.6. She attends the University of California - Los Angeles, taking 5 credits in English composition. Her sister Karen also skated competitively at the elite level, finishing 6th at the U.S. Nationals in 1997. When she first lived at Ice Castle, she lived in the cabin called "Debi Thomas' Teepee." Made a guest appearance in episode "Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass" as herself in season sixteen of TV show The Simpsons. She has written an inspirational book for kids titled, The Winning Attitude: What it Takes to be a Champion. She also wrote an autobiography, Heart of a Champion, at 17. Kwan has a wax statue of herself at the Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in New York. Kwan and fellow figure skater Brian Boitano appeared as announcers in the film Ice Princess. She provided the voice of a shopkeeper in the Disney direct-to-DVD sequel Mulan II. She also made a guest star appearance in children's cartoon TV show Arthur. Her former boyfriend is hockey player Brad Ference. She made a guest star appearance in the Family Guy episode, "A Hero Sits Next Door". Kwan currently resides in Manhattan Beach, California. Kwan is a seven-time recipient of Skating Magazine's Readers' Choice Award for figure skater of the year, and in 2003, the trophy that is given out for the Readers' Choice Award was renamed the "Michelle Kwan Trophy." In May 2000, Kwan was named one of the "50 Most Beautiful People in the World" by People Magazine. She is the co-owner of the East West Ice Palace in Artesia, California. Kwan speaks fluent Cantonese as well as some conversational Mandarin. |
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