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I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

637 reviews

your_geekygf's review

challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Alcohol, Body shaming, Child abuse, Death of parent, and Cancer

Moderate: Alcohol, Drug use, Grief, and Sexual content

Minor: Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

meghan_w's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

This book. It feels weird to sum up in words what I think of someone else’s life story and traumas. For that reason, I’m not rating it, but I’ll try to talk more about how this book made me feel rather than critique the content. 

I’m Glad my Mom Died is a memoir about the author’s experience as a child star on Nickelodeon, having a narcissistic mother, eating disorders, religious deconstruction, OCD, and other things. I highly recommend listening to this 100% on audiobook at 1.0x. It’s worth taking the time to hear the author’s voice inflections as she tells her story. 

This book isn’t light. The quip on the cover saying it’s funny is weird to me because it’s not. It’s heavy and it’s dark at times. I waited to read this until I felt I was in a place to be able to handle it. It made me feel angry, baffled, but most of all sad. Not just for the author, but for so many who struggle with similar issues as her and her mother. What I deeply appreciate the most is she takes a good amount of the book to share her experiences in therapy. It’s a raw account of how hard therapy is and that healing is not a linear process. We don’t get it right immediately and sometimes it’s gets harder before it gets better. 

I’m so grateful for her willingness to share her story with the world. I took pieces I needed out of it for my own life. It was truly a privilege to listen to her story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child abuse, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Alcoholism, Medical content, Self harm, Vomit, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Grief, Mental illness, and Physical abuse

cjeannette's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Eating disorder

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

cigarete_smoke's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Alcoholism, Eating disorder, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Domestic abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Vomit, Terminal illness, Sexual content, Pedophilia, Alcohol, Sexual assault, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Mental illness, and Emotional abuse

clusterf_cked's review

dark emotional funny sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Terminal illness, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Cursing, Vomit, Eating disorder, Child abuse, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Fatphobia, Cancer, Gaslighting, Body shaming, and Addiction

Minor: Blood

bootrat's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Sexual content

smoldragon22's review

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.5

It made me cry.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Cancer, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Eating disorder, Child abuse, Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Medical content, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Grief, Emotional abuse, and Death of parent

Minor: Drug use and Drug abuse

I can't emphasize enough how graphic the eating disorder descriptions are.

carmentxx's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

i cannot express to you how unbelievable this memoir is. calling it a book doesn’t even feel fair or real- it’s a complete realisation of a life. every moment of jeanette’s life i felt for her. every sadness and pain and fear and grief. it’s so so sad and yet a touch of hopeful. i would really recommend this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Self harm, Panic attacks/disorders, Drug abuse, Child abuse, Bullying, Eating disorder, Vomit, Physical abuse, Dysphoria, Mental illness, Grief, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Body shaming, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Sexual assault

sandramarinis's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Great book. A very dark life story about Jennettes terrible upbringing with an extremely controlling narcisistic mother. I couldn't stop reading it. To anyone reading this book who relates to her story, please read Dr. Ramani Durasulvas books about navigating narcissism. I highly recommend them. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death of parent, Cancer, Sexual violence, Bullying, Sexual harassment, Grief, Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Abandonment, Addiction, Cursing, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death, Drug use, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

erinkellyreads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

4.5 Stars! I really enjoyed Jennette McCurdy's use of voice in this memoir (and not just because she narrated the audiobook). You get a strong sense of who she is and the things that pull at her from the expectations of her mother, the weight of religion, the loss of self, and the small voice that wants to be happy. More and more is coming out right now about the dangers that child stars face, and Jennette's memoir shows that, sometimes, the call is coming from inside the house. If you are someone who struggles with eating disorders of any kind, this one may be a little much for you in parts (I did have to skip a couple of parts but not a large chunk). Overall, I'm glad she shared her story, and I'm hopeful that she'll be able to live a happier life for herself now. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Fatphobia, Vomit, Alcohol, Child abuse, Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, and Toxic relationship