I'm Glad My Mom Died: Jennette McCurdy

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Leone, Sophia (November 13, 2022). "SU needs more speakers like Jennette McCurdy who are outspoken on critical issues". The Daily Orange . Retrieved November 30, 2022. No child is psychologically, emotionally, mentally equipped for the obstacles of child stardom,” McCurdy told Canada’s CBC last week. “Even if they have the greatest support system around them.” I can never tell that the author should have forgiven her mother as she had to suffer a lot due to her. But still, I think the title is brutal, and it should have been a different optimistic one. This is another big problem child actors face, the predators on the shooting sets. The author mentions a "creator" who behaved harshly toward her. This same creator also allegedly misbehaved with some other crew members in a sexually inappropriate way.

a b Spencer, Ashley (August 5, 2022). "Jennette McCurdy lived a teen star dream. Silently, she was suffering". The Washington Post . Retrieved August 8, 2022. I’m Glad My Mom Died started off as a one-woman show of the same name, written and performed by McCurdy. And now, it’s a bestselling book — sold out in stores and online, with people finding themselves 7th, 10th in line at their local libraries. McCurdy told Good Morning America that writing the book helped her heal and reframe her relationship with her mother. And, she stresses, the book wouldn’t exist if her mother was still alive because her “identity would have still been dictated by her.” Spencer, Ashley (August 5, 2022). "Jennette McCurdy lived a teen star dream. Silently, she was suffering". Washington Post . Retrieved June 2, 2023.This celebrity memoir might be a difficult book, but you should never miss the opportunity to read it. Suddenly, I feel just like that little eleven-year-old girl who was confused and scared and uncertain. That eleven-year-old girl who was doubtful that I knew the whole truth of my situation, who was unsure that my mother was the hero she pretended to be, but who shoved that doubt down."

A coming-of-age story that is alternately harrowing and mordantly funny.” —Dave Itzkoff, The New York Times During December every year, when it is nearer to Christmas, there is something that everyone all over the world (especially in America) will do. It is to rewatch the Home Alone movie. The family dynamics of the McCallister family, ingenious script by John Huges, brilliant direction by Chris Colombus, fantastic music by John Williams, and extraordinary production design and sets will make us relive our childhood. Home Alone is pure nostalgia for many people. Jennette McCurdy was always destined to be a star but not because she necessarily wanted it, but because her mother did. Her mother's dream was for her only daughter to become a star and Jennette would do just about anything to make her mother happy. Why do we romanticize the dead? Why can't we be honest about them? Especially moms, they're the most romanticized of anyone. ” The cover features McCurdy looking up and holding a pink urn with decorative paper spilling out. About the decision to use the photo for the book cover, McCurdy told Entertainment Weekly:McCurdy does this, in part, by carefully inhabiting her child-self’s point of view. In an early vignette, she recounts going to hated acting classes as a young kid, yet remarks: “I’m glad Mom gets what she wants, to watch me act. But it does add stress to me.” In another striking moment, McCurdy enters puberty and realizes she’s beginning to grow breasts. She understands immediately that her growing up—and by extension having her own desires, leaving her mother’s sphere of influence—must be avoided at all costs. She asks her mother if anything can “stop the boobies from coming.” And she recounts her mother telling her the secret to staying small, a secret that McCurdy felt would “cement and validate our wonderful best friendship, the way only secrets can.” That secret is calorie restriction, which, as McCurdy grows older, spirals into anorexia, binge eating, and a protracted struggle with bulimia. Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction". The New York Times. August 18, 2022 . Retrieved August 18, 2022. So this book is a lot, but it is also very good and seems very healing. I was under the impression based on how it was presented and marketed that this was more of a comedic memoir, so heads up if that was what you assumed as well, but the weight and power of her words as she discusses a lifetime of abuse is definitely worth reading for. It does read very plainly, almost like a “class assignment” type of tone recounting events, though they are certainly difficult memories to have to revisit. I hope McCurdy is doing well, and it is very honorable of her to use her experience to reach out and help others in this way. There could have been more depth to some of it, but this is less a look at the causes and social critiques and more at the personal effects she endured. There are great reminders too about how to move forward and not get bogged down in being perfect, such as when she writes that ‘ slips are totally normal. When you have a slip, it’s just that. A slip. It doesn’t define you. It doesn’t make you a failure. The most important thing is that you don’t let that slip become a slide‘. I won’t get too much more into it, as you should probably read the book and this is McCurdy's story to tell, but I am very glad I read this. In Jennette's story also, we can see that she was not at all interested in acting. But her mother forced her to act even from the age of six. Nobody even cared to ask her what Jennette liked to do. She tells in this book that she hated acting, which is why she quit acting after her mother died.

Wow. A very revealing and honest memoir. Unsure what parts people found funny. I didn’t laugh once and didn’t see any parts that were structured for humor. The experience of performing as a child, seen through McCurdy’s eyes, is mainly a damaging one, especially when it comes to auditioning. “I was not psychologically developed enough to understand that rejection doesn’t mean you’re not worthy, it just means you don’t fit the role,” she says. “I couldn’t separate those two things.” Once she had made it, there were other pressures. “It’s led me to have complicated feelings toward any child-acting experience.”I’m Glad My Mom Died is an important work. It lets other people know that they aren’t alone, especially if their parents aren’t top 10% parents. Some parents are bottom 10% parents.

This book is totally worth to read. And I totally loved it. Jennette is a wonderful story-teller, I liked the writing, that is so captivating and beautiful.I really initially opened up in therapy. It felt like such a safe place to grow and explore all aspects of myself. I’m glad I chose to do it that way. I think it was the right choice. When I tell you I stayed up until 5 am to finish this book because I simply couldn't sleep without knowing Jennette would be okay. First of all, actors have the best memories. ( Laughs.) And secondly, no. I have three amazing brothers who went through many of the things that I went through right alongside me. It’s been really great to be able to have their support and validation throughout all of it. You talk about wishing you had spoken up more to the iCarly writers about the difficulty of portraying Sam as food-obsessed when you had your own food issues. Was it just a coincidence that the role involved a preoccupation with food?