My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him... My mother is British, but she's of French extraction.

My mother is French, my father is Texan.

My mother was a domestic goddess and Mother Earth figure. She was sweet and placid - just what the perfect wife was supposed to be and I was determined not to be.

My father is Swedish and my mother is French.

My grandmother spoiled my father rotten, and he grew up expecting women to do whatever he wanted. When he married my beautiful mother, Elsa, he expected her to give up her career as a champion ballroom dancer and become a good wife and mother, which she dutifully did.

I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shattering blow when she died. I was 16.