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I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

391 reviews

lawrence_david's review against another edition

4.25

dark hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Alcohol

setton8's review against another edition

4.0

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent

Moderate: Incest, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Self harm, Religious bigotry

Minor: Sexual content

gay4books's review against another edition

4.75

emotional informative medium-paced

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This book is very emotional and triggering. It’s a deep dive into the author’s eating disorders. She talks about how her mom was the catalyst of most negative things in her life but she can acknowledge that there was still love there. A very small amount about Nickelodeon. Insight on relationships. I feel like I know Jennette as a person now not just as an actor. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug use, Pedophilia, Sexual violence

Minor: Stalking, Schizophrenia/Psychosis

bee_afraid's review against another edition

3.5

dark sad fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Grief, Death of parent

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cancer, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria

Minor: Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Blood, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Classism

empaya's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Alcohol, Sexual harassment

hayreading's review against another edition

4.0

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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Not a big memoir reader, but this was amazing. Listened to the audiobook definetly upped the experience. Good insight into Hollywood and the lives of childhood actors.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol, Sexual harassment

effyarrow_smith's review against another edition

3.5

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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This was very difficult for me to listen to. My experiences with mental health don’t directly parallel, but I can relate to Jennette’s story. I grew up in a very mormon household and struggled with an eating disorder through my middle-high school years, and this book was in some ways triggering, but I also think it was good for me to read. I don’t really know what else to say about it- I think reading a memoir is a different experience than your standard novel, as you are reading a true story about a real person. I didn’t like the story I was reading, but the story is real. I have an appreciation for that authenticity, even if it’s hard to acknowledge that that sort of ugliness does exist in people. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Sexual content, Alcohol, Sexual harassment

Minor: Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Stalking

thegardenlesbian's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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Simply put, a great book. I usually don't care for memoirs (mainly because I don't care about famous people, especially celebrities) but this one was very thoughtful. I pretty much never watched the author's shows, so I didn't know much about her, but while reading I felt deeply for her. I hope she can be happy and that she goes on to do great things (even if it's 'just' being happy). Rather than being glad her mom died, I'm glad she seems recovered (or to be recovering, as it can be a lifelong process). Either way, her mom dying (both literally and, more importantly, metaphorically, as her presence was still within the author) definitely was what she needed  — even as heartless as it may sound.

My one critique: I would have loved to get more 'guidance' on i.e. what age she was when a chapter started, because I found myself sometimes lost at the beginning of some of them because of the time jump.

All in all, the author's writing style is enjoyable and realistic, showing both the vulnerable and the funny, balancing the cynical and apathetic with the emotional and caring.

That scene in the end when she recalls the time when she was purging without having checked that the rest of the stalls were empty beforehand, only for a kid to ask for her autograph as she's vomiting was, in all its unrelatability, completely relatable.

If you can tolerate the trigger warnings, I would definitely recommend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Sexism, Blood, Medical content

Minor: Infidelity, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Lesbophobia

cicuma's review against another edition

3.75

emotional reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Dysphoria

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Cursing, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Stalking

avin_rains's review against another edition

4.25

emotional reflective fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Death of parent, Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Religious bigotry

Minor: Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Toxic friendship