Mommywood

Title: Mommywood
Author: Tori Spelling
Finished: May 16, 2009
Pages: 243
Published: 2009

Tori Spelling’s second book in two years, that focuses on her life as a mother and not on her past growing up and her issues with her mom.

I think I enjoyed this book even more because it was about the real Tori and her life and not rumors and bad relationships, but the here and now. I’m also excited because it coincides with a couple seasons of Tori and Dean: Inn Love & Home Sweet Hollywood, so when I finally get around to watching those seasons it will be overlapping.

The great thing about Tori Spelling is she is one of few people who doesn’t seem embarrased at her hew motherhood experience and the situations she finds herself in. She makes fun of her self and laughs along instead of hiding it or feel ashamed that she faced difficult decisions with her kids. I’m sure that I’m going have a lot of these myself when I become a mom.

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Stori Telling

Title: Stori Telling
Author: Tori Spelling
Finished: August 4
Pages: 276
Publisher: Simon Spotlight
Publish Year: 2008
ISBN: 1416950737

I was always a fan on 90210, which meant I was always a fan of Tori Spelling and Aaron Spelling and anyone else associated. I vaguely remember all the drama surrounding the family, but never really paid too much attention to what tabloids said. Reading this book made a me empathize with Spelling for the way her parents raised her and all the trouble she had with the press. It’s not easy being a child to a star, much less trying to live your own life and become a star yourself.

I think she did a very good job of telling her own story of her life, even admitting to her own faults and actions, leaving nothing out, to convince the world that she is just like everyone else despite who her father was.