Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up by Selma Blair

15 reviews

mereileen's review

dark emotional funny reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Chronic illness, Alcoholism, and Rape

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Drug use, Eating disorder, and Abortion

Minor: Medical content, Cancer, Grief, and Sexual assault

shaunashares's review

emotional reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Medical content

Moderate: Sexual assault, Drug use, and Child abuse

thenovelbookshelf's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

A beautiful, heart-breaking, heart-wrenching, emotionally compelling memoir of Selma Blair's life from the early years to now.
  
We all like to think that stardom and celebrity is easy, beautiful, graceful, healthy. This proves that you never know what people have gone through in their lives.
  
From the first drink at age 3, to daily drinking to numb the pain from unbeknownst MS, Selma Blair tells a frank & honest recollection of her memories.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Chronic illness, and Addiction

Moderate: Child abuse, Death of parent, Grief, Medical content, Animal death, Death, Eating disorder, Mental illness, and Rape

Minor: Dementia, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, and Toxic relationship

caseythereader's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.25

 - I didn't know much about Selma Blair before starting this book, other than having seen her in a few movies and knowing about her MS diagnosis. Her memoir takes readers inside what has so far been a fairly private life, and I'll remember it forever.
- This book is a hard read. Blair has been through a lot in her life. I also read the audiobook, read by Blair herself, and she breaks into tears at many points in the story.
- However, MEAN BABY also delivers on the celebrity front. Blair name drops with abandon, and takes us with her to fancy award show parties, photo shoots, and to hang out with the likes of Carrie Fisher and Karl Lagerfeld. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Sexual harassment, Vomit, Ableism, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cancer, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Grief, Medical content, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, and Suicide attempt

megang519's review

dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

The memoir I didn't know I needed until I cracked it open! Beautifully written, vulnerable, and enlightening.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Addiction, Suicide attempt, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Death, Medical content, Sexual violence, Drug use, Self harm, Body shaming, Rape, Pregnancy, and Sexual assault

Minor: Animal death and Death of parent