It is a tribute to Indian democracy that a person from a poor family, an ordinary family, is today addressing the nation from the Red Fort.
I am a low-key girl from a middle-class family of a small village.
My dad is a builder, and my mum's a nurse. They're just very normal people.
My family isn't really all that different from anyone else's. Well, maybe they're a bit more entertaining.
I'm not from aristocracy, or anything like that.
I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.
I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
I didn't go to fancy schools or come from money or from a family that valued law or public speaking in any shape or form.
My parents were an ordinary East End family and very supportive - they would have supported me no matter what I wanted to do.
I grew up in Michigan and - where to start? I mean, my dad was a doctor who worked at a jail. He was more like a jail administrator. My mom was a public school teacher. There's no artists in my family whatsoever.
I think people looked at me as one of them - an ordinary girl from an ordinary family with a voice they could recognise.
I've got a wonderful family. They're so non-showbiz.
I came from a middle-class family. My dad was a professor; my mom was a nurse. I didn't come from money, and I didn't come from circles of power. I didn't come from the country club; I came from the town park.
I come from an ordinary family - my dad is a carpenter, a roof-maker - and we've always loved racing together.
We were like any other family with the same troubles and some of the same happy moments.
