I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
I’d lose my mind if I heard my kid call the nanny Mommy.
What is free time? I’m a single mother. My free moments are filled with loving my little girl.
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business.
A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother.
I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody’s help, not even Mom’s.
Being a mother is hard and it wasn’t a subject I ever studied.
Motherhood is the only thing in my life that I’ve really known for sure is something I wanted to do.
The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.
My mom is definitely my rock.
One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.
My mom and my father’s birthday are on the same day.
My dad was always in sales. My mom had a heart for the ages. Worked in recreation, doing rehabilitation in nursing homes. Very nice, practical folks who were very proud of me but had no inclination toward the stage in any way.
I’m half Telugu. My mom is Telugu and dad, a Maharashtrian. I was brought up in Gwalior. I was exposed to English, Hindi, and Marathi. I heard my mom speak to her family in Telugu, so I got the hang of it.
My mom has always been my support system. She taught me to never give up and to keep pursuing my passions no matter what.
My whole life, people have doubted me. My mom did. People told me in high school I’m too short and not fast enough to play basketball. They didn’t know my story. Because if they did, they’d know that anything is possible.
I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do.
My father was Muslim, and my mom is Christian, and we moved from New Orleans to Oakland, so I always had this appreciation for different cultures.
It’s always been a dream of mine to get somewhere and to have my mom and dad with me up there.
Most of us have fond memories of food from our childhood. Whether it was our mom’s homemade lasagna or a memorable chocolate birthday cake, food has a way of transporting us back to the past.
My mom, Latha Sriram, is my first guru.
Don’t let people disrespect you. My mom says don’t open the door to the devil. Surround yourself with positive people.
My mom always says, ‘If you don’t believe in something, you’ll lose yourself completely.’
My dad’s father would take me to WWE shows when I was younger, and my other grandfather, my mom’s dad, would watch wrestling with me at the house. They just really enjoyed it. Unfortunately, they both passed away before I signed with WWE.
