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I had to force myself not to be overly protective because I had lost one child.

I've been blind in my mind since the age of three.

When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

I was very protected growing up. My dad was very strict with me. I was the oldest of four kids, and there are three girls. So I kind of paved the way of what it was like to raise a teenage daughter.

I can only hope that neither of my daughters was scarred by their upbringing.

My mother had been blind as a child. And so, blindness was something that has long fascinated me, but also it's something I find really, really scary.

I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person.

Even as a child, I found a way to survive.

From a child, I knew I didn't have the face I wanted to have. My mother was a baroness. She was from Berlin; she was a silent movie actress and friends with Marlene Dietrich. So she knew all about film make-up and prosthetics and stuff like that and what they used to do in those days. And she taught me all that as a child.

I was brought up as a normal kid.