I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street.

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

What I find appalling is the intrusive nature towards my extended family.

You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family. We're all family - an extended family.

No one ever said, 'Be a doctor.' But because so many members of my extended family - aunts, uncles - were doctors, there was this expectation that I'd probably be a physician.

Once you have a firefighter in your family, your family and the families from his crew become one big extended family.