I was born and raised in New York, but my family on both sides is of Italian descent.
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I am a proud Italian American, raised by an Italian mother and Italian grandparents.
I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually.
I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and half when we lived in Youngstown, Ohio, I grew up in small towns in Pennsylvania. I graduated from high school in Farrell, Pennsylvania.
I was born in New York.
My father was adopted. He grew up in the Italian household.
I'm a native New Yorker. Everything to do with New York feels like my family.
We were raised in an Italian-American household, although we didn't speak Italian in the house. We were very proud of being Italian, and had Italian music, ate Italian food.
I was born in Catanzaro, Italy, from a Calabrese mother and a Ligurian father.
As you may know, I was raised in an Italian Catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland.
My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans.