Tina Turner was born in 1939 as Anna Mae Bullock, and she was raised in the tiny town of Nutbush, Tenn. As she wrote in her book Happiness Becomes You: A Guide to Changing Your Life for Good, as shared by You magazine, she spent her childhood running around the cotton fields of her family farm. Sadly, from very early on, Turner felt unwanted. She told Rolling Stone, "It was just a fact that my parents didn't care that much for me. See, my mother didn't want me in the first place."
While her family wasn't destitute, they also weren't well off. In an interview with Oprah Winfrey, Turner explained, "We had food on the table. We just didn't have fancy things, like bicycles." When her parents relocated to Knoxville for work, Turner moved in with her father's mother. "She was strict — the kind who starched and ironed dresses," she said. For the outdoorsy Turner, life with her grandmother was "miserable."
Then, Turner experienced another blow when her parents separated. As she explained, this led to bullying at school. "I got teased, and it interfered with my learning," she recalled. With the strict grandmother, the school bullying, and the lack affection from her parents, Turner's childhood was clearly a difficult one.
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