There were always questions about my parents; I got so fed up with that.

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Charlotte Gainsbourg, a famous French actress, got tired of people always asking her questions about her parents. She felt like she was being bothered by these questions and just wanted to be treated like a normal person, not someone who had to explain her family all the time.

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