A Little Elizabeth Taylor
Regina’s mom, Elizabeth Steffens, was born in Texas in 1945 to a carpenter father and a stay-at-home mother who worked hard to raise her and her four siblings. As she grew older, she was tagged as “the fun one” in the family.
Elizabeth Steffens. Source: The New Yorker
She was told that she looked just like Elizabeth Taylor , and so she would actually peer at Taylor on the screen and imagine it was her mother. Slowly, she became a fancy little girl. A relative once quoted her saying, “When I die, be sure I have on eyeshadow.”