I was born in a poor family, a lower middle class family. My father was a clerk in the forest department. I was very bad at studies. I was not very good at sports, also.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I was not born into a rich family or a family of government officials.
I grew up in a very large, poor family.
I started life in a poor family and could not even afford a proper tertiary education.
The childhood poverty of both my parents and their minimal education did much to influence me and my two younger brothers in our education and career choices. One brother became a dentist and the other, a professor of anthropology with a Ph.D. degree.
I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised in the countryside, planting corn and selling sweets made by my grandmother.
I was raised really poor and so was my husband.
I was no great achiever at school, either academically or in the sporting field... I was always tending to be in trouble.
I grew up in a one-parent family. I worked my way through college, I had very average grades and I was very average looking, but I've lived a remarkable life only because I believed I could.
I was lucky enough to have parents that took me out from country to country and go to school and learn how to be a better person.
I come from a middle class family, and my parents weren't too supportive of my career choices.
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