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Meet the Cast

  • Nicole Di Rocco

    Like most kids, Nicole, 30, just wanted to fit in. She grew up in Irvine, an affluent neighborhood where it wasn’t cool to be different. She begged her mom not to speak Spanish when her friends were around, and it wasn’t until college that she started to embrace her roots. [...]

  • Nicole’s Mother

    Thais Sainz, 64, was pushed at a very young age to succeed. Born in Havana, Cuba to an architect father who moonlighted as a professor, Thais was sent to a boarding school in Texas at 14. [...]

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