Mommywood
by Tori Spelling
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Author: Tori SpellingEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2009-04-14
ISBN: 141659910X
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Simon Spotlight Entertainment
Book Reviews of Mommywood
Book Review: A non hip housewife who really enjoyed this book!
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this book in audio form and have really enjoyed it. Just downloaded it two nights ago and will be finished tonight or tomorrow. (I am writing the review while dad and son are at the park as won't have another chance at the computer for a while much less quiet to write the book review!) As I said in the title of this review, I am a non hip housewife who wasn't very hip before being a housewife either! Never saw any of Tori's shows, not even the zip code one. I don't think I even watch any of her dad's shows as we didn't grow up with television.
That said, I can saw that I was a little surprised at myself for choosing this book and delightfully surprised at how much I have enjoyed it! It is fresh and entertaining, even if you don't really know who she is talking about or the related gossip to specific stories or the background to her life and her troubled relationship (or lack thereof) with her mother.
Part of the fun is seeing her point of view as a celebrity. Part of the fun is that she is also a real person. Yes, she talks about stardom, etc., and she does have a different view on life because of it, but she knows that and acknoledges it. So funny to hear her talk about her two month vacation when her son Liam was born. Setting: I am listening to the book on my mp3 player as I rush around the house, doing dishes, laundry, straightening up, trying to plan some kind of enriching, educational experience for my son, all while he is taking his all too brief nap. I hadn't had the time for a shower yet that day, haven't had time for a haircut in 4 or 5 months, (pedi/mani? Please!), and was just setting goals of sanitation levels for my housekeeping at that moment. Son's nap times are not the time I take for tv or time I think, "wonder how I will fill this empty 2 hours?". They are times for me to scramble and literally sometimes jog around the house to get housework and cooking and laundry caught up. Love the job but never really get it all done! Anyway, doing all this and listening to Tori talk about how she was getting a glimpse of how great it would be to be a stay at home mom if she didn't need to work - her days were nursing, bathing and bottling the baby and watching soaps while Liam napped!!! She talks about it so earnestly, so refreshingly sincere (do not know her but this is how she comes across in her book) and abosolutely niave that I just had to laugh at how ludicrus this was! She seemed to really believe it and sincerely want to be the primary caregiver to her son. Of course, within a few sentences she also acknowledges that this would be the life of a stay at home mom with a full time staff and an easy baby (mine was and is VERY high maintenance and I am devoted to him - maybe a small connection there?) has the geniuneness to laugh at herself.
Tori shares her insecurites and failures along with the things she is happy about. About how she started the mommy game a little unprepared like most of us and has learned and grown so much.
She seems like she is not being catty or gossipy just really means to share her life. Tori has so many of the same insecurities that we all do; she just gets to resolve them on national tv and with camera's following her around!
Could write more as I have so enjoyed the book and have found that, although our backgrounds and lifestyles and economic, geographic and social worlds apart and experience as mommies similar when one gets to the heart of matters. Love this book. Light, fun and happy although not perfect - a great desciption or goal for non celebs life's too, don't ya think?
PS: was glad it wasn't another book that makes it sound like she thinks she discovered mommyhood. So many working, high powered career women find out how great being a mom really is and all of those wonderful moments (and terrible ones too) and then think that they must write a book telling the world that a child is hard work, being a mom is challenging but in the end wonderful. Doesn't take someone famous to tell us that! This was just a bio that was honest and refreshing.
Summary of Mommywood
Tori Spelling might have grown up with everything a girl could wish for, but these days she's just another suburban working mom...whose toddler regularly recognizes her in the pages of Us Weekly. Welcome to Mommywood, where the stars are two feet tall and your neighbors know who you are before you move in.
Like most parents, Tori wants her children to have the one thing she didn't have as a kid -- a normal family. On their hit Oxygen reality show, Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood, the starlet and her husband Dean McDermott regularly wrestle dirty diapers, host the neighborhood block party, and tackle temper tantrums on the red carpet. But when the cameras aren't rolling, Tori's still having awkward run-ins with a former 90210 costar at a laser tag birthday party, scooping rogue poo out of the kiddie pool on a resort vacation, and racing to win back her pre-baby body before the media starts calling her fat. For all her suburban fantasies, Tori Spelling is no June Cleaver.
With the same down-to-earth wit that made her entertaining memoir sTORI telling a #1 New York Times bestseller, Tori tells the hilarious and humbling stories of life as a mom in the limelight. From learning to be the kind of parent her own mother never was to revealing what it's like to raise a family while everyone is watching, Mommywood is an irresistible snapshot of celebrity parenthood that you won't get from the paparazzi.
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