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My dad was Jewish. My mom is not. So I was not raised anything.

Growing up I always shopped at Victoria's Secret with my mom and saw Angels like Gisele and Karolina Kurkova in the windows.

When I was young, I had two older sisters, and since I was the youngest in my family, my mom took me around with her all the time. I was forever with her when she was having coffee in the middle of the afternoon with her three sisters. And they would talk about men. I absorbed a lot of that.

My earliest memory is seeing Michael Jackson in Melbourne with my sister when I was about ten. I still have this souvenir stick with a glove that would light up and make a peace sign in a bunch of different colors. I am so happy my mom did not throw that out.

I was born to a Nigerian dad and a Kenyan mom, and coming to the States was really academic.

Oh, my mom. She is one of my biggest fans.

They very seldom let me lose my cool. They made me like I was Polly Perfect, which was ridiculous so that when I bump into kids on the street they had say I wish my Mom were like you.

I usually travel with a lot of people, like my dad, mom and sisters.

I am a 70s mom, and my daughter is a 90s mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real computer freaks.

My mom was a professional fitness competitor, so I go into the gym with her. I train with my dad and mother. It is embarrassing, because she is really strong.

Part of the reason that I moved to Los Angeles is that even though my mom introduced me to all kinds of music, I really wanted to work on having my own identify, on being who I am and doing what I do, and seeing how people responded.

I am extremely blessed to have the extraordinary mother that I have, and I do not mean Diana Ross, I mean the mother. My mom paved a road that did not exist, as did Oprah.

My mom taught me to go after my dreams. I have this faith in myself that I must have gotten from her.

Because of my unique experience as my mom's child, the beginning of my journey was more about me trying to figure out who I was on my own. My mom is one of the greatest moms and so supportive of all my siblings and of all of us being who we are, and not who she wanted us to be.

I have been acting my whole life. I have this huge imagination! I am a dancer and my mom's a dance teacher, and I was always performing and entertaining people. I do go to see live theatre or a movie, and I do become the main character for a few days afterwards. I loved being somebody new for a temporary amount of time.

So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I did not want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that.

When I was seven, I asked my mom if I could be on TV, and she said if I really wanted to, I could. I got an agent and booked my first audition.

My mom came from such humble beginnings and especially my dad as well. He did not go to university.

My mom moved up between Leland and Greenville when I was just a little tot.

Well, Mom and Dad are both actors, and I have spent a lot of time watching my mom on stage and a lot of time on set with my dad, so it was very much a part of my growing up.