Controversial Book: I'm Glad My Mom Died.

Remy

Remy

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I'm Glad My Mom Died: McCurdy, Jennette: 9781982185824: Amazon.com: Books

I'm not familiar with this actress but the hard copy book has apparently sold out already on Amazon.

I know it's controversial and my post may be deleted or at least moved to the underground. I'd read this. I'm sure a thrift store copy will eventually show up if it's selling this fast.

Clearly this title and topic is resonating with many. While likely offending many.
 

I will have to look this book up! As someone whose mother was a traumatizing, malignant narcissist I’m sure that some of the content would resonate with me. I can’t say that I was glad when my Mom died…I even managed tears at her funeral…but life did get simpler and easier…
 

TRIGGER WARNING

Here's the synopsis from Simon and Schuster: (seems intense)


A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor—including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother—and how she retook control of her life.

Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother’s dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went along with what Mom called “calorie restriction,” eating little and weighing herself five times a day. She endured extensive at-home makeovers while Mom chided, “Your eyelashes are invisible, okay? You think Dakota Fanning doesn’t tint hers?” She was even showered by Mom until age sixteen while sharing her diaries, email, and all her income.

In I’m Glad My Mom Died, Jennette recounts all this in unflinching detail—just as she chronicles what happens when the dream finally comes true. Cast in a new Nickelodeon series called iCarly, she is thrust into fame. Though Mom is ecstatic, emailing fan club moderators and getting on a first-name basis with the paparazzi (“Hi Gale!”), Jennette is riddled with anxiety, shame, and self-loathing, which manifest into eating disorders, addiction, and a series of unhealthy relationships. These issues only get worse when, soon after taking the lead in the iCarly spinoff Sam & Cat alongside Ariana Grande, her mother dies of cancer. Finally, after discovering therapy and quitting acting, Jennette embarks on recovery and decides for the first time in her life what she really wants.

Told with refreshing candor and dark humor, I’m Glad My Mom Died is an inspiring story of resilience, independence, and the joy of shampooing your own hair.
 
after reading the above post #5 i can now relate but think she could have picked a better title ..... but this title is what has garnered all the interest......
sad that this sort of abuse by stage moms who want their kids to be famous so they are in relation or be a meal ticket has gone on for decades each time the public seems shocked but ..... after the book sales fade people will act just as shocked the next time
No wonder so many Child actors end up with addictions and life problems and thanks to parents like this probably broke too.
 
As a counterpoint to these stories, I loved my mother and she was very supportive of me. She was there for me through a divorce and the death of my second wife.
My sis flew from NY and I flew from CA to Florida to celebrate her 102nd birthday. 3 days later I got a call that she had passed away. I felt that she was just waiting to see both of us one more time.
 
I betcha the provocative title was decided upon by the publisher. It gave the book a lot of buzz, which sells books. I read about the book, and it is quite sad. That's why I'm not going to read it. I don't often read autobiographies or biographies anyway. She was in a show my kids watched (or perhaps only my daughter), when they were kids. I don't have a clue who the author is, and until I read about the book, I had not an inkling... and still don't.
 
WheatenLover said:
I betcha the provocative title was decided upon by the publisher. It gave the book a lot of buzz, which sells books I. I read about the book, and it is quite sad. That's why I'm not going to read it. I don't often read autobiographies or biographies anyway. She was in a show my kids watched (or perhaps only my daughter), when they were kids. I don't have a clue who the author is, and until I read about the book, I had not an inkling... and still don't.
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I don't blame you. I'm not going to read it either; would be too upsetting, I think.
 
All I take from this is were are the other people involved ... did she have no other family/ friends ... that could have seen the dysfunction and abuse?

The studios are suppose to have a advocate/ and often a private teacher etc checking on these kids while working .... many studios want the kids to have an agent beyond the parent for this type of thing ............ these kids have many adults probably more then the average kid to possibly say ... can u help me?

Stage parents have been an issue and some minors have fought and become emancipated when in show business because this sort of thing. It is sad and disturbing..... but i have a hard time no one knew or no one said anything to save her before.
 
My step mother once said "Your children are extensions of your ego." So many people have children and try to make them objects of their own desires for money, success, or fame/money. When money is worshiped as the way to be happy in life, parents will project this nonsense on their children and ruin their lives.
 
I had a verbally abusive mother and those words hurt just as much as physical wounds would have. They have stuck with me my whole life and many of the choices I made in life were because I believed I didn't deserve anything better. She was my adopted mother and when I was 58 years old, she told me she had made only 2 mistakes in her life and one was adopting me and the other was marrying my (adopted) father. That was in 2004 and I never spoke to her or ever saw her again. All those years of cruelty caught up to me and I was done with her. She died in 2006 and I never shed one tear.

I don't think a book like this would interest me. I could write my own book.
 
Sounds a lot like Mommy Dearest...Did anyone see that?? It was a sad tragic movie I can't forget. My Mom was loving and I was so fortunate and grateful to have had that experience
 
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