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My mum called me scatty because I could never sit still. But there was no sense I was suffering from a medical condition as such.
I was brought up with psychics and tarot cards. My mum was always told I was going to be in a boy band and be famous as a singer.
You could probably go three or four months without the word 'God' coming from my dad's mouth; Mum would pray for a parking space.
My mum's always had big aspirations because I'm an academic. I always got good grades at school. GCSEs were just a breeze for me.
I'm not an interior designer - I'm a normal working mum who wants her house to look good and doesn't need a man to do it for her.
My mum came from nothing and didn't have many opportunities in her youth, and she blames a lot of her social inadequacies on that.
My Mum brought me up to believe that if you look after the pennies then the pounds look after themselves, and I could never do it.
Me and my mum didn't see eye-to-eye for a lot of years, and I've never really felt connected with my dad, because he wasn't there.
My mum and dad are pretty amazing chefs and they spent most of my childhood cooking really extravagant things for my sister and me.
I remember clearly watching a 'Sooty Show' at a theatre and telling my mum I wanted to be up with the puppets, not in the audience.
My mum's really short so she always wears really tall heels, and I used to steal them and now it's just a part of my everyday life.
My dad is Greek and my mum Jamaican. My grandparents brought me up for most of my childhood, but I saw my mum and dad all the time.
My mum was born in the former Czechoslovakia, and even though my grandparents weren't wealthy, they were aristocrats in their time.
My mum said I told her I wanted to be a hairdresser during the week and a star on the weekend and that was when I was really young.
Working in Birmingham for the first time was the best thing, especially as it was round the corner from my mum's house in Harborne!
When I was younger, my mum used to put fresh flowers in bath water instead of rubber ducks, and since then I had a love of perfumes.
My mum used to work in New York in Spike Lee's shop; she did the outfits for the video for P.M. Dawn's 'Set Adrift on Memory Bliss.'
Alot of my inspiration comes from people that you don't see on TV like my mum and my grandma. There's so much history and knowledge.
Mum had regular mental tests with her specialist, but because of her academic background, she became brilliant at manipulating them.
My mum was a peacemaker, and in personal things I tend to do that, because I can't deal with personal conflict. I find that horrible.
I don't know much about only children. I was the middle one of three, and if ever I was alone with mum and dad, it was a rare moment.
I come from a family of working women, my mum went to work two weeks after I was born - my parents had no money, there was no choice.
The work my mum does, a lot of it is re-housing homeless people, that's a real job. I play make-believe and dressing up for a living!
My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who's a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers.
I do most of my shopping over the Internet because as a busy working mum I can do the supermarket shop when the kids have gone to bed.
I don't want to be someone sitting in my rocking chair at the end saying, 'Well, I passed.' My mum used to say life isn't for sissies.
Mum obviously did not earn much money to feed me and my siblings. She worked hard to raise us, but there was always something missing.
I'm just the same as any other kid, my mum gets me to the do the washing up and help with the chores - nothing much has changed there.
My mum and dad got divorced when I was nine and my brother was seven, and all they strived to do was to make sure we weren't affected.
My mum is just the sweetest person on Earth, and if I turned into her, I wouldn't be that upset at all; in fact, it would be an honour.
My own mum cared about Hollywood, and I didn't. I wanted to act, and I loved the creativity of it, but I didn't care for the lifestyle.
My father is Portuguese, and in Portugal, it is traditional to take your mother's maiden name as a middle name. My mum is called Tough.
My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life.
My mum was Labour-voting, but wanted us to know we were important. Basically, everyone's equal, but you, my children, are a bit better.
My mum's family are from Blaenau Ffestiniog, the slate town. My grandfather was Elis Humphreys Roberts, so that's quite Welsh isn't it?
My mum used to always dress me and my sister in matching Laura Ashley dresses. And I'd be like, 'Mum, I just wanna wear my Doc Martens!'
I don't know if I'm a tortured soul, but I was born heartbroken. I remember feeling it when I was so young. I was like, 'Mum, it hurts.'
My mum has always been quite free-spirited, and she has taught me a lot. I think that is probably why I have the sort of mind that I do.
There was a time when my mum would sew costumes for the dance studio so we could keep doing our classes because we couldn't afford them.
I loved theatre and film when I was growing up in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. My mum's a reflexologist and my dad's a corporate financier.
I grew up listening to loads of afrobeats; my grandad's Sierra Leonean, so that was always around. My mum loves those kind of beats, too.
I'm amazed that things have panned out the way they have. I always say I'm so lucky, though my mum always says, 'You make your own luck.'
When I heard about the Windrush issue, I thought, 'That could be my mum... it could be my dad... it could be my uncle... it could be me.'
Mum and Dad were very much friends and up for life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up; they just taught me to be me.
The 'Pride and Prejudice' with Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle was something I watched on a weekly basis with my mum at home in Oxfordshire.
For many Sudanese, it's for strength they choose to be Christian rather than Muslim. My mum was a Muslim but she became a Christian later.
My dad died in 1980, and I found out afterwards from mum that my piano lessons, which cost £2 a week, took up nearly a third of his income.
And that's my honour, that's what my goal is, to always keep my mum's name ringing, because I know what sacrifices she went through for me.
I met a Swedish single mum called Annalise who is living in the wilderness. Her dilemma is finding enough wood to make a fire to keep warm.
My mum is a bit unconventional; she's outdoorsy and has more of an emotional intelligence, whereas my dad is pragmatic; he's a businessman.