Her mother's glamorous life took her away from home for stretches of time, during which Tyler was raised by either her aunt or her grandmother, a southern belle who teaches and writes about etiquette. 'My mother needed the help of my grandmother and my aunt, and I'm so grateful that she had the sense to do that and that they were in our lives,' Tyler said. 'What's so wonderful about that for me is that I had such variety in my upbringing, so many different worlds. It's made me a bit of a chameleon.'