{"id":32450,"date":"2024-06-16T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-16T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=32450"},"modified":"2024-05-23T15:50:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T20:50:05","slug":"audiobook-memoir-im-glad-my-mom-died-by-jennette-mccurdy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=32450","title":{"rendered":"#Audiobook #Memoir – I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor\u2014including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother\u2014and how she retook control of her life.<\/p>\n

Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother\u2019s 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 \u201ccalorie restriction,\u201d eating little and weighing herself five times a day. She endured extensive at-home makeovers while Mom chided, \u201cYour eyelashes are invisible, okay? You think Dakota Fanning doesn\u2019t tint hers?\u201d She was even showered by Mom until age sixteen while sharing her diaries, email, and all her income.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0I\u2019m Glad My Mom Died<\/i>, Jennette recounts all this in unflinching detail\u2014just 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 (\u201cHi Gale!\u201d), 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.<\/p>\n

Told with refreshing candor and dark humor,\u00a0I\u2019m Glad My Mom Died<\/i>\u00a0is an inspiring story of resilience, independence, and the joy of shampooing your own hair.<\/p>\n

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Review by Twinsie Angie<\/p>\n

I purchased this audio book.<\/p>\n

Woof.\u00a0 This book.\u00a0 I saw another reviewer say they are glad her mom is dead and honestly, I agree 100%.<\/p>\n

I hate to \u201crate\u201d a book when it is about someone\u2019s life experiences because how can I say oh that is only worth 3 stars or 5 stars.\u00a0 I have to say the way Jennette laid herself out bare for this novel was something I didn\u2019t think I expected.<\/p>\n

I knew who she \u201cwas\u201d because my kids watched iCarly.\u00a0 I watched the Nickelodeon documentary like everyone else and that is when I grabbed this book.<\/p>\n

Guys, the things she went through for her mom\u2019s love and approval are just heartbreaking.\u00a0 The abuse at the hands of her mother formed the way she thought. The abuse of her mom caused her to abuse her on body with food and alcohol. The way Jennette shared all the experiences of shame and guilt while also trying to hide from herself\u2026.woof.<\/p>\n

I really hope she is in a happy place because she has been through so much negative that she deserves happiness.<\/p>\n

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Jennette McCurdy got her start in child acting, which by her late teen years had brought her success (she starred in Nickelodeon’s hit show iCarly and her own spin-off, Sam & Cat). She went on to star in the Netflix series Between, and had a short-lived country music career with Capitol Records Nashville. Despite her outside success, McCurdy felt ashamed of 90% of her resume and ultimately unfulfilled, so she turned to alcohol, but since that didn’t work, she quit acting and began pursuing writing\/directing in 2017. She has written\/directed a pilot and four short films. Her work has been featured in\/on The Hollywood Reporter, Short of the Week, Florida Film Festival, Salute Your Shorts, and many more. She has written articles for Huffington Post and the Wall Street Journal. Her one-woman show \u201cI\u2019m Glad My Mom Died\u201d had a sold-out run at Lyric Hyperion Theatre. She hosts a podcast called \u201cEmpty Inside\u201d, where she speaks with guests about uncomfortable topics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor\u2014including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother\u2014and how she retook control of her life. Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother\u2019s … Continue reading #Audiobook #Memoir – I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1195,1708],"tags":[1707],"class_list":["post-32450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio-book","category-memoirs","tag-jennette-mccurdy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSW8H-8ro","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/review.jpg?fit=900%2C300","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32451,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32450\/revisions\/32451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}