I'm Glad My Mom Died: Jennette McCurdy

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Jennette McCurdy’s “I’m Glad My Mom Died” is a memoir that dives into the depths of her struggles as a child actor with raw honesty, insightfulness, and a touch of dark humour. In 2007, McCurdy was just 15 years old when she made her debut as Sam Puckett in the Nickelodeon sitcom iCarly alongside co-star Miranda Cosgrove. McCurdy distinguishes herself from standard-issue celebrity memoir fare with a vivid, biting, darkly comic tone and an immersive present tense. Personally I read it for industry secrets, such as calorie (calorific) restriction to stunt growth and aging, and for another account of Hollywood and entertainment ind. Come down the travelators, exit Sainsbury's, turn right and follow the pedestrianised walkway to Crown Walk and turn right - and Coles will be right in front of you.

This kind of relationship is likely to underpin many areas of psychological functioning from when the child is young all the way into adulthood. While it looked as if the actor was living every child’s dream, reality was far more painful for Jennette. Trauma can be ‘spread’ through generations if the ordeals which have inflicted said trauma isn’t effectively dealt with, says Yassin.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

I completely empathise with mental illness, but the fact that she didn’t try to change it, that’s a more complicated feeling for me. McCurdy told Good Morning America that writing the book helped her heal and reframe her relationship with her mother. Jennette’s road to finding herself—removed from the expectations of her mother—is impressively funny.Luminous, elegant, haunting - I read it straight through' Philippe Sands, author of East West Street. The memoir is full of vivid details that help readers understand what it feels like to grapple with these realisations while still trying to move forward in life. Her anorexia and bulimia, which got so bad she rotted a tooth from constant vomiting, was directly instilled to her by her mother from an early age.