Gemma Collins Quotes

I think I grew up with the idea that there was something comforting about preparing food.

In a lot of ways, I had a wonderful childhood.

I am re-collecting the baseball cards my mom had thrown out when I went away to school. You know you are an adult when you can buy a whole set of baseball cards instead of two packs at a time.

I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.

Like practically everyone who grew up in Miami, I knew little about its history. We were more worried about mangoes falling on our cars.

Time goes by so slowly when you're a child, and then, as an adult, it goes by in the blink of an eye.

One summer I was made housekeeper to my own family, making menus and shopping lists. It was my mother's idea of teaching me to be a grown-up. The main thing I remember is my father being so delighted to get roast duck.

I first read 'Tom Sawyer' when I was in 8th grade, 13 years old. I realised since that Mark Twain just bottled what it felt like to be a child.

I have been brought up in an environment which was quite an exciting childhood.

We didn't really have vacations when I was a child.

When I was a kid, my dad would let me stay up and watch 'Cheers' each week. Granted it's not the most 'kid friendly' show, but I could've cared less. I was getting to stay up past my bedtime!

As a kid, you don't know what's going on at the time. But once you get older, you start to realize it.

My adult life, I grew up in Chicago. When I go back there, I always have fond memories.

I lived at home until I was 23.

I am the host with the challah French toast.

I felt like a typical kid growing up, and Lawnside is a nice town with a huge historical significance.

I eat a lot of cereal and toast.

I think everyone goes through a phase of longing to be little - I always wanted to be a girl who could sit on a man's lap, but that is just not going to happen.

My overwhelming memory of my childhood is the constant busyness in the house. I am seventh out of eight kids - five boys and three girls - plus my mom, Ruth.

We didn't have a TV until I was 12.

I grew up in a small house with just my mam and felt quite lonely at times.

I've gone through my adolescence on TV so it's pretty cringey when I look back on some pictures and scenes, but that's part and parcel of being a child actor and growing up.

When I was a kid, I couldn't see life outside ramen noodles and Kool-Aid.

From age 7 to about 37, I had a normal life and not a very easy one.

My childhood went on far too long.