In Colombia, where I was born and raised, women like my mother considered their appearance and personal grooming a matter of principle. There was never an occasion where she didn't show up looking picture-perfect.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My mother always told me to take pride in my appearance.
Mum was a big style icon for me: her natural sexiness and natural confidence.
My mom had beautiful clothes. My mom is elegant; my mom is glamorous. But my mom is also really real, and I grew up with a mother who had babies crawling on her head and spitting up on her when she was wearing gorgeous, expensive things, and it was never an issue.
I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.
You know, my mother's beautiful, my dad was a really handsome man, and there was a lot of talk about looks when I was growing up.
I don't wear much make-up in my non-working life, though I love to dress up and put on a face for a special occasion. As I get older, I see less of the fantasy 'Indian' self I inherited from my father, and I see my mother looking back at me.
My mother's a... beautiful woman, and I think, in some way, I felt intimidated by that sometimes.
My mother never put an emphasis on looks. She let us grow up on our own time line. She never forced any beauty regimen into my world.
My mum had a massive influence on me, not just in what she wore and how she looked, but in her spirit. She was married to one of the most famous men in the world, and she didn't wear any makeup, ever. I mean, have you ever seen the wife of a man like that rock up with no makeup on? Because I haven't since.
My mother never wore much make-up, and she was a kind of natural beauty; she knew just how to enhance what she had.