Reviews tagging 'Fatphobia'

Estou feliz que minha mãe morreu by Jennette McCurdy

1705 reviews

carliej's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional funny hopeful informative sad

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Jennette's voice shines in this memoir exposing her childhood in the entertainment industry. She is so honest about every disturbing experience while writing with wit and authenticity. Her narration of the audiobook is well worth the listen.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Sexual content, Terminal illness

chara71613's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, Death of parent, Gaslighting

Moderate: Cancer

happily's review against another edition

5.0

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis

michelles_book_nook's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

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⚠️ TW: parental death, fatphobia, dieting, anorexia, gaslighting, manipulation, domestic violence, physical abuse, mental abuse, mental health, grooming, body dysmorphia, binge eating, bulimia, alcoholism, drug use ⚠️ Wow this book was one hell of an emotional rollercoaster that just kept astonishing me at every single chapter! This book is a memoir from Jenette McCurdy, one of the main characters from the popular 2007 Nickelodeon show iCarly, about her life and upbringing in acting as well as her relationship with her Mom, Debra, both during her life and after her death. Jennette was 6 years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother’s dream was for her only daughter to become a star and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. She went along with heavily calorie restricted diets and weighing herself five times a day. She endured so much manipulative and gas lighting abuse from her Mom where she would go along with anything just for her love and approval but it never seemed enough. Even to the extent that she was showered by her Mom until age sixteen, sometimes even alongside her older brother, while sharing her diaries, emails and all of her income. This book is so harrowing to read but also darkly hilarious as Jenette uses humour throughout to discuss the events she went through after discovering therapy and quitting acting as she now embarks on recovery and for the first time in her life gets to make decisions truly for herself. Overall, I highly recommend giving this one a read but please take the TW's into account because it is a very hard read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Gaslighting, Dysphoria

Moderate: Death of parent

perenlop's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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Very heavily recommend this if you were a fan of Icarly or Sam and Cat growing up. Not out of guilt for enjoying something that caused a lot of pain for McCurdy, but out of a desire to see her shine in a profession she got to choose for herself, and to see her side behind the scenes. Where other stories detailing abuse would understandably flower up the language, McCurdy is blunt and unforgiving with her writing about her abusive mother, which is cathartic. Her story is tragic, and you will feel horrible for her, and you will feel proud of her by the end of the novel. Her story deserves to be known. Absolutely worth your money if you can handle it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Alcohol

Moderate: Infidelity

Very unrelenting in its content. Also what isn't talked about as much is that McCurdy dates a crew member who's 40 when she's 18 and he pushes her into sexual acts and acts possessive and abusive towards her, which is a very uncomfortable read (not a criticism, just a warning)

sonamdelhiwala's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

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this was so jarring and shocking and painful to read as someone who watched icarly religiously with absolutely no inkling that anything was even remotely wrong. it feels weird and delicate to rate someone’s account of the complex and chronic abuse and trauma they endured but i read the absolute shit out of this and the writing style is SO good and engaging (very very clear throughout that jennette is more passionate about writing than acting). i hope she makes way more money from this book than she would’ve from her $300k hush money deal from nickelodeon, and i hope the concept of a “child star” ceases to exist 

basically every TW you can think of: disordered eating, PTSD, mental/physical/emotional/sexual/verbal abuse, grooming, sexual assault and harrassment, alcoholism, narcissistic parents, OCD, schizophrenia, gaslighting, death/grief, etc

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cancer, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment

Moderate: Addiction, Child abuse, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content

Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis

ashtonborden's review against another edition

5.0

reflective sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Gaslighting

Moderate: Body shaming, Cancer, Terminal illness, Vomit, Alcohol, Sexual harassment

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

xolobooks's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional funny informative sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting

jenniferpalmblad's review against another edition

5.0

emotional informative fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting

soffi_ramirez's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting