Natalie grew up in a small Australian beach town near the industrial city of Newcastle, approximately a two-hour drive from Sydney. Her father was a businessman who operated a fast food shop (today he owns a plant nursery), and her mother taught fourth grade. Along with her three sisters, Imbruglia studied tap and ballet as a pre-teen, and from the start exhibited a precocious ambition that her parents recognized and nurtured. Although at age 13 she realized she would never become a world-class ballerina, today Imbruglia looks back upon those early years as important in determining the direction of her future.
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