I was born in New York and moved to London with my family when I was five. I did have an American accent for a couple of months, and then it went a way.
My dad is Greek and my mum Jamaican. My grandparents brought me up for most of my childhood, but I saw my mum and dad all the time.
My parents moved to the states when I was 6, so I was raised by my grandma in the Dominican Republic and didn't see them again until I was 10.
I grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working.
I'm a hybrid, and I kind of like that. Raised by African parents, growing up I lived between Burkina Faso and Stains, a suburb just outside of Paris. In Stains, I had all the cultures in the world on my doorstep, and that opens up your mind.
By the time I was 10, I had lived in 11 different countries.
I was born after my dad came back from England and he wanted to raise us like European kids.
It was pretty awful for us children because we never really knew the local children. Mother was keen for us to learn languages, so our travels took us to France and Italy, as well as the West Country.
With a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding schools in Britain.
I was born in Vietnam, and I was adopted by an Irish lady and a Hungarian man, and then I moved to America.
