3 December 2020 Christina Aguilera My mom brought me up to believe that my talent is a gift and a blessing.
3 December 2020 Jai Rodriguez When Queer Eye hit, the church told my mom they were praying for me. She said, God loves him too. And I support him 100 percent.
3 December 2020 Padma Lakshmi I never Tweet about my daughter. Never. I just want to be respectful of her privacy. My job as a mom is to know when to open my mouth and when not to.
3 December 2020 David Rockefeller I owe much to mother. She had an expert’s understanding, but also approached art emotionally.
3 December 2020 Amy Jo Johnson My mom taught me to go after my dreams. I have this faith in myself that I must have gotten from her.
3 December 2020 Tracy Austin My mom and dad met at UCLA when he as a captain in the Air Force and she was in her junior year.
3 December 2020 Larisa Oleynik If my mom reads that I’m grammatically incorrect I’ll have hell to pay.
3 December 2020 Allyson Felix My mom is great and I make sure that we pray together before every race. She helps me put everything in perspective and remind me of the real reason I run.
3 December 2020 Magic Johnson God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and charisma of my mother and the big heart of my mom, because she wants to save the world and help the world, so I am just like her.
3 December 2020 James Franco When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buckteeth. I didn’t want to get braces, but my mom said I couldn’t be an actor if I didn’t get the braces. So, I got the braces.
3 December 2020 Melissa Bean I am excited to rise today to support National Mom and Pop Business Owners Day. This celebration honors the husband and wife business owner teams whose work helps drive the economy and fuel job growth.
3 December 2020 Robert Griffin III I’m a military kid, both parents in the military – Mom did 12 years, Dad did 21, served in two wars. So discipline is something that was huge.
3 December 2020 Al Roker They wrapped her up like a baby burrito to show to Mom. Here were a mother and her daughter and I love them both so much. I couldn’t wait for Courtney to come to the hospital so I could have all my women together.
3 December 2020 Aaron Sanchez My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration – and toughest critic.
3 December 2020 Taraji P. Henson Once you’re a mom, always a mom. It’s like riding a bike, you never forget.
3 December 2020 Ana Ortiz I still feel like a kid sometimes myself so hard to believe that I’m a mom. Now I’m an adult! It only took 38 years!
3 December 2020 JoBeth Williams I think there’s a danger of a being typecast as the all-American mom forever.
3 December 2020 Rico Rodriguez For as long as I’ve been acting, I have been very lucky to be paired with really great actresses playing my mom.
3 December 2020 Chanel Iman We always had ‘Vogue’ in our house. But, when I was around 12, my Mom finally took me seriously about modeling and put a stack of magazines in front of me, then told me to study all the poses. The ones I loved the most were in ‘Vogue.’
3 December 2020 Octavia Spencer I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, ‘Maybe I want to be an actor’. And she said, ‘Maybe not that’.
3 December 2020 Rodney Atkins There’s a book called ‘The Shack’ – it had a lot to do with me coming full circle, meeting my birth mother. Awhile back, my birth mom and my adopted mom came to my show together, and it was pretty surreal.
3 December 2020 Rebecca West Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.
3 December 2020 Ashlee Simpson Being a mom’s so empowering and incredible. I’m one of those people who believes that life brings things to you at a certain time for a certain reason, and if you just go with it, that’s where the best moments come from.
3 December 2020 Sprague Grayden I’m from Manchester, Mass., so it was lobster, lobster and more lobster! Also, lots of fish that we caught in the summers, clam chowder and roast beef sandwiches. But my mom was pretty healthy we had a lot of chicken and broccoli and rice as well.
3 December 2020 Dan Auerbach My mom bought me a white Strat, but that wasn’t what I wanted, so I went to a guitar store in Cleveland and – the guy told me it was a really good deal – made an even swap for a blue Teisco Del Ray. I loved that guitar and used it a bunch.
3 December 2020 Lily Collins I was actually the one who decided to move to LA. Mom and I were driving on Sunset Boulevard during one of our trips back to see her family, and I said, ‘Can we just stay?’ So we did.
