Gloria Estefan: What did you want to be when you were growing up?

What did you want to be when you were growing up?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

This is a standing question in The Guardian's decades-long The Q&A and also recurs independently in career and life interviews.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Gloria Estefan said elsewhere, not written here

A psychologist and then a diplomat.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 June 2019 source ↗

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Miriam Margolyes

I wanted to be a doctor, like my father.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 July 2025 source ↗

Victoria Pendleton British cyclist

A vet, but I wasn’t smart enough.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 July 2017 source ↗

Lucy Worsley English historian

A spy, a witch and a nun.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 May 2017 source ↗

Adrian Edmondson English actor, comedian, musician and writer

I only ever wanted to be an actor or a rock star. I was suspended from school in the sixth form and allowed back only when I promised to join the army. But I lied.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 July 2018 source ↗

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Question Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought? Money & investment

Art. We have some Picassos and Diego Riveras.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 June 2019 source ↗

Question When were you happiest? Time & hindsight

1 March 1991, when I got back on the stage almost a year after a road accident in our tour bus. I felt like I had climbed Mount Everest. That was euphoric.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 June 2019 source ↗