First published 2013
Tori Spelling opens her life wide for cameras and readers alike. She admits the reality TV show Tori & Dean creates its own version of truth, but the actual chaos exceeds anything Star Magazine could fabricate. Spelling navigates pregnancy scares live on the Home Shopping Network, attempts to conceal her fourth pregnancy immediately after giving birth, and gets rescued from paparazzi by protective mothers. She stalks celebrity neighbors and allows film crews to capture her marriage's most difficult moments. Her high-risk pregnancy with son Finn creates terrifying health complications while she misses baby Hattie's early months during hospital bed rest. Financial struggles follow her transition from childhood opulence to adult reality. She discovers unexpected similarities with her late father, mega-producer Aaron Spelling, and finds love with Dean again outside their vow renewal ceremony. Spelling writes with characteristic humor and brutal honesty about the gap between public performance and private truth.
Genres: autobiography, biography-memoir, 21st-century
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, unreliable-narrator
320 pages · Kindle Edition · Gallery Books
Content warnings: pregnancy-loss