

"We had a couple of maids, a housekeeper and a nanny, but that didn't matter. My parents actively made it that way," she said. Melissa said her parents taught her to be humble. Joan Rivers with Melissa as a toddler, taken at the family home in New York City, 1970. Her parents emphasized the importance of manners. She was expected to study hard and was given age-appropriate chores. Growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, Rivers' parents worked hard to shield her from the public eye.

"People would be like 'Oh my God, did you hear what your mom said last night?'" "It didn't start to dawn on me that until I was in high school," she said. Her parents, Edger Rosenberg and Joan, may have been showbiz heavyweights, but Rivers' childhood was surprisingly normal. "If I have to hear one more time 'you're not at all what I expected.' My mother always said that one of her biggest frustrations in life is that I will never get full credit for what I've accomplished." "I did not know my parents were famous until I was in high school" Oh my God, you're so grounded, you're so nice,'" Rivers told Newsweek. Vincent Sandoval/Amanda Edwards/Wire Image Melissa Rivers, seen above holding a copy of one of her works in a Barnes & Noble, has written three books about her mom and their relationship, including "The Book of Joan," published in 2015.
