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A review by shameetha_rajeev
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
5.0
After completely reading the entire book I finally understood the brutal tittle. This story revolves around the life of Jennette McCurdy who grew up being forced into the Hollywood business by her mother in hopes of making it to the big screen and "to have a better life than her mother ever did".
Reading about the tortures that she had to go through this whole experience was absolutely heartbreaking for me. Knowing how she was so tortured by her narcissist mother who made her become anorexic and encouraged her to not eat. Having someone shower you until the age of 17 and to feel violated like that with no privacy at all was heartbreaking. Knowing that she was exploited as a child and treated like shit by that creep Dan Schneider ( although she never mentioned his name) was horrible. Knowing that even though going through all that she could make so many people laugh with her powerful acting Including me. Never would I have ever thought she would be going through something like this.
She had also dedicated a few chapters talking about her experience on Sam and cat which was absolutely horrible. Having to work with someone she didn't like and someone who wouldn't put in the same amount of work was absolutely awful. You could tell how the favourites were being played and it was awful. She also talks about how when the show ended everyone blamed her for it claiming Ariana got a higher pay but it was actually due to allegations of sexual abuse of the creators.
In the book Jennette talks about her bulimia and alcohol abuse and how she couldn't control it. She talks about her unhealthy coping methods with everything leading her to binge eat and purge everything afterwards. She talks about feeling guilty for eating because if her mother were there she would've commented and shame her for it. She talks about extremely important points of how she copes with it later in the book and she is in the road to recovery now.
This book was so hard to read for me but I'm glad I did. Knowing all of this made me appreciate her even more. Her writing skills was absolutely wonderful with a bit of humour but still maintaining her point of view towards everything. She discusses about how being forced Into this career has emotionally and mentally damaged her from a young age. She finally has come to terms that her mother was abusive towards her whole childhood to adulthood and exploited her.
Reading about the tortures that she had to go through this whole experience was absolutely heartbreaking for me. Knowing how she was so tortured by her narcissist mother who made her become anorexic and encouraged her to not eat. Having someone shower you until the age of 17 and to feel violated like that with no privacy at all was heartbreaking. Knowing that she was exploited as a child and treated like shit by that creep Dan Schneider ( although she never mentioned his name) was horrible. Knowing that even though going through all that she could make so many people laugh with her powerful acting Including me. Never would I have ever thought she would be going through something like this.
She had also dedicated a few chapters talking about her experience on Sam and cat which was absolutely horrible. Having to work with someone she didn't like and someone who wouldn't put in the same amount of work was absolutely awful. You could tell how the favourites were being played and it was awful. She also talks about how when the show ended everyone blamed her for it claiming Ariana got a higher pay but it was actually due to allegations of sexual abuse of the creators.
In the book Jennette talks about her bulimia and alcohol abuse and how she couldn't control it. She talks about her unhealthy coping methods with everything leading her to binge eat and purge everything afterwards. She talks about feeling guilty for eating because if her mother were there she would've commented and shame her for it. She talks about extremely important points of how she copes with it later in the book and she is in the road to recovery now.
This book was so hard to read for me but I'm glad I did. Knowing all of this made me appreciate her even more. Her writing skills was absolutely wonderful with a bit of humour but still maintaining her point of view towards everything. She discusses about how being forced Into this career has emotionally and mentally damaged her from a young age. She finally has come to terms that her mother was abusive towards her whole childhood to adulthood and exploited her.