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I had a lot of trouble speaking as a kid. I didn't really speak in coherent sentences until I was, like, 6 years old. There was a long time where everybody was very worried, because my sisters were so advanced for their age, and I would barely talk.

And then, when I started to school, I found out I couldn't talk.

As a kid, I was told to talk as much as possible.

I was one of those weird children that just couldn't talk to people, so I kind of had to make myself be not like that because I knew it was going to hinder me.

When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.

As a child in the early 1980s, I tended to talk with things in my mouth - food, dentist's tubes, balloons that would fly away, whatever - and if no one else was around, I'd talk anyway.

I must say that I always thought I had a voice, even when I was 4 years old.

To be honest, I was kind of a shy kid growing up.

I was the shyest kid. I'd never speak, only if I had to. Honestly.

When I was younger, I wouldn't speak up as much, but now that I'm a mom, things have changed.