The Person Who Shaped Her
Kim Gordon was born in 1953 in Rochester, New York, to Althea and Calvin Gordon. When she was five years old, her family moved to Los Angeles, where she spent most of her childhood. In 1963, they relocated to Hawaii for two years and then to Hong Kong, where her father, a professor at UCLA, implemented a study abroad program.
Source: The Guardian
Kim had one sibling, an older brother named Keller, who was “the person who more than anyone else in the world shaped who [Kim] was, and who [she] turned out to be.” According to Kim, her brother was a “brilliant, manipulative, sadistic, arrogant, almost unbearably articulate” boy who was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic later in life.