When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Something most people don't know about me is that I never grew up.
People feel like they grew up with me.
Maybe when I was younger, people didn't always believe in me; they didn't think I would make it to where I am now.
I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do. But I do find it a bit bizarre that people find it bizarre that I've grown up.
Where you grew up becomes a big part of who you are for the rest of your life. You can't run away from that. Well, sometimes the running away from it is what makes you who you are.
You start realising as you get older that there are some kids who don't know who you are.
I know from my own experience and from other people in the business that when you come from a place where nobody knew who you were and then there is this sudden shift to where everybody now knows who you are, there's an adjustment that you have to make.
It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's in your blood.
A lot of my personality was informed by feeling very different in the world I grew up in, feeling that I didn't fully belong, that my parents didn't belong.
Where you come from is such a huge part of who you are today.
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