I was brought up by a single mom in a poor town in Arkansas and while some aspects of small-town life were really positive - like the fact that... →
Beth Ditto
When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else.
I was given baby doll toys myself, and they proved a stark reminder that my life was expected to revolve around childbearing - just as my mom's... →
We all seek approval, and our mother's seal is usually the most important. The nitty gritty is that we have to accept ourselves, even if it is... →
My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. Nope. Mom had had a fling with some other guy who was my dad. Some dude who didn't stick around... →
Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an incredibly Christian background, but there was a lot of love, which is really... →
The film I do doesn't have to be a film that only my kids can watch. My kids will watch films, but I will decide what they watch and not. My aim... →
Madhuri Dixit
My children are unaffected by me being an actress because that's the way I like to keep it. I love the fact that they are so innocent about my... →
It's like I've experienced quite a weird and unusual life, you know, being with a mom who's a single parent and struggling with money and... →
Fefe Dobson
Luckily, I was raised by a kind of gypsy family, which is why I always get along better with people who worked in circuses than with kids of other... →
Lou Doillon