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It follows Jennette McCurdy's early career as a child actress under her mother's thumb, taking the reader through decades of abuse from the perspective of a kid who absolutely adores her parent. Emotional and physical abuse, forced eating disorders, and intense controlling behaviors are just a few of the things she talks about - not only how they impacted her in the moment, but how they continued to affect her as she grew into adulthood and even after her mother died.
It was powerful and well-written, but in all honesty, a bit difficult for me to read. Some of the descriptions of eating disorders, addiction, and abuse were quite detailed. Those passages emphasize how much the pain inflicted upon McCurdy changed her for life, which I think is a valuable message, but they are pretty hard to get through.
Graphic: Child abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Vomit, Death of parent, Sexual harassment
Graphic: Child abuse, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Grief
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Vomit, Death of parent, Gaslighting
Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Eating disorder
Graphic: Child abuse, Eating disorder
Moderate: Alcoholism
Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Grief, Death of parent
Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Vomit
Moderate: Cancer, Child abuse, Death of parent
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Eating disorder