Editing Uma Thurman (section)

==Early life==
Uma Karuna Thurman was born on April 29, 1970,<ref name="filmref">{{cite web | url = http://www.filmreference.com/Actors-and-Actresses-Str-Us/Thurman-Uma.html |title=Thurman, Uma | publisher=FilmReference.com | access-date=April 22, 2014}}</ref> in [[Boston, Massachusetts]]. Her father, [[Robert Thurman]], is a professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies and an author,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/07/12/specials/thurman-profile.html|title=Robert Thurman Doesn't Look Buddhist|website=The New York Times|last=Kamenetz|first=Rodger|date=May 5, 1996|access-date=April 27, 2020}}</ref> who lived as an ordained Buddhist monk for three years. Her mother, [[Nena von Schlebrügge]], a high-fashion model, was born in [[Mexico City]] to a [[German nobility|German nobleman]] and a Swedish model, Birgit Holmquist.{{cn|date=May 2025}}

Thurman received a [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] upbringing, and spent altogether around two years in [[Almora]], [[Uttarakhand]], India.<ref name="tbio">{{cite web| first = Domenic| last = Wills| title = Uma Thurman – Biography| publisher = [[TalkTalk Group]]| url =http://www.talktalk.co.uk/entertainment/film/biography/artist/uma-thurman/biography/129|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150930085247/http://www.talktalk.co.uk/entertainment/film/biography/artist/uma-thurman/biography/129|archive-date=September 30, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title = Uma Thurman wants to act in Bollywood|newspaper=[[Hindustan Times]]| date = July 1, 2011|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/bollywood/uma-thurman-wants-to-act-in-bollywood/story-0JNaqPUfaROENpFtRO8frN.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518135748/http://www.hindustantimes.com/bollywood/uma-thurman-wants-to-act-in-bollywood/article1-715621.aspx|archive-date=May 18, 2015|access-date=January 19, 2022|url-status=live}}</ref> She grew up mostly in [[Amherst, Massachusetts]], where she went to Amherst Regional Junior High School, then moved to [[Woodstock, New York]]. She has three brothers, Ganden (b. 1967), Dechen Karl (b. 1973),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.grahapada.com/5a96rbefvmuecpzgwb5m99tvpleltr|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200205064720/http://www.grahapada.com/5a96rbefvmuecpzgwb5m99tvpleltr|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 5, 2020|title=grahapada.com}}</ref> and Mipam (b. 1978), and a half-sister named Taya (b. 1961), from her father's previous marriage. Thurman's first cousin once removed is Swedish soccer player [[Max von Schlebrügge]].<ref>{{cite web|author=Mads Haugaard |url=http://www.metroxpress.dk/dk/article/2010/04/29/10/4351-83/index.xml |title=Uma Thurman: Et mærkværdigt barn til megastjerne |newspaper=[[MetroXpress]] |date=April 29, 2010 |access-date=October 20, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100430203017/http://www.metroxpress.dk/dk/article/2010/04/29/10/4351-83/index.xml |archive-date=April 30, 2010 }}</ref>

She is described, in a 2004 biography, as having been an awkward and introverted girl who was teased for her appearance and unusual name (sometimes using the name "Uma Karen" instead of her birth name).<ref>''Uma Thurman: The Biography'' (2004) p. 30</ref> When Thurman was ten years old, a friend's mother suggested a [[nose job]].<ref name="tbio"/> As a child, she suffered bouts of [[body dysmorphic disorder]].<ref>Kahn, Sherry. [https://web.archive.org/web/20080622171159/http://canoe.talksurgery.com/consumer/new/new00000056_1.html "Golden Girl Uma admits to having Body Dysmorphic Disorder"], Talksurgery, May 15, 2001. Retrieved August 16, 2010.</ref> She attended [[Amherst Public Schools, Massachusetts|Amherst Public Schools]], where in eighth grade she discovered her love of acting. At age 14, she attended [[Northfield Mount Hermon School]], a preparatory school in Massachusetts, where talent scouts noticed her performance as [[Abigail Williams|Abigail]] in a production of ''[[The Crucible]]''<ref name=vanfair>Schoumatoff, Alex. [https://www.angelfire.com/nd/umathurman/artvanity.html "The life and career of Uma Thurman"], ''Vanity Fair'', January 1996.</ref> and offered her the chance to act professionally; she then dropped out to pursue an acting career.<ref name="tbio" /><ref name=NMHalum>{{cite web |url=http://www.nmhschool.org/prominent-alumni |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110618070945/http://www.nmhschool.org/prominent-alumni |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 18, 2011 |title=Prominent Alumni &#124; Northfield Mount Hermon |publisher=Nmhschool.org |access-date=August 2, 2011 }}</ref>