My mom's one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.
My father was born and raised in Sierra Leone, and my mom was from Bermuda.
I grew up with the classics. My mom and I would sit and watch 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'White Christmas' - those kind of movies.
I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.
It was tough being a single mom. It was tough being in a divorce with children. Very, very hard.
My mom was a single mom, and she had enough on her plate. I knew when I was doing something I wasn't supposed to, and I tried to keep her from finding out about it. I did a pretty good job of that.
I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other.
I'm an only child raised by a single mom. She's always been supportive of what I wanted to do.
This is the place where anybody - like an African American kid raised by a single mom - can be president.
I was raised in Boston by three older brothers and a very strong and empowering single mom.
My mother's a Peruvian Indian from Lima who raised me and my four brothers and sisters as a single mom.
My mom was essentially a single mother raising three boys. If anyone could have had any reason to give up, it was her. But she didn't, and neither did we.
My mom was a single parent.
Because I grew up in a single parent home with my mom, growing up, things weren't always the best.
My mom, for all intents and purposes, was a single parent.
I skated and rode bikes on ramps, and my mom was always super supportive. She was one of the only divorced moms in the neighborhood, so all the other parents looked down upon her for letting her kids do that kind of thing.
While I circled around and around in my brown rental skates, I studied a group of skaters spinning in the center. I was fascinated! When my mom picked me up, I began a campaign for skating lessons.
I really wanted to play hockey. My mom thought figure skates looked easier to use, so she put me in the learn-to-skate program.
One thing my mom taught me was that when you're making deviled eggs, flip the eggs over the night before. They've been sitting in the carton as they're transported, so the yolks settle on bottom. If you flip them, then the yolks aren't skewed to one side.
Dad met Mom in 1983 during the lead-up to the 1984 games. She was an Olympic downhill skier. In those days, the winter and summer games were held in different cities but in the same year, so there was more intermingling of winter and summer athletes at social functions.
