“I was very lucky growing up, and I got all my dad's and aunts' toys fr...” — Jasmine Guinness Quote

“I was very lucky growing up, and I got all my dad's and aunts' toys from the 1950s and 1960s and loved those old pedal cars.”

“Because I was very big and she was very small, my mother had a horrible birth when I was born. So she always said: 'I'm never having any more kids!'”

“I've worked since I was 18. I have no trust fund and don't expect anything.”

“Drugs seem to turn people into paranoid bores. Why would anyone want to go there?”

“Since having kids, I am more careful about saving rather than splurging. I used to spend all my money on trainers and high heels that I couldn't walk in.”

“People talk about me as if I am the sole inheritor of the Guinness family fortune and worth masses, but I have hundreds of cousins.”

“I grew up in Senegal, where more than 50 percent of the women bleach their skin, and skin bleaching is a huge deal. I grew up seeing my cousins and my aunts using it.”

“I shared a room with my parents until I was 7, and I lived with my uncles and aunts and my cousins and my grandfather... so the house was always full of people.”

“I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.”

“My grandparents died two months apart, like, marriage forever, all my aunts and uncles, all my brothers are married.”

“I was raised by my grandmother, my mom, about five or six aunts and female cousins as well. We were all in one building. I definitely learned how to respect and how to treat women.”

“I was a really picky eater as a child. Because I was obsessed by Popeye, my mum and aunts would put my food in a can to represent spinach and we'd hum the Popeye tune and then I'd happily eat it.”