
(Above: Tori Spelling and husband Dean McDermott took their kids, son Liam and baby daughter Stella, to the park at Venice Beach while filming ‘Tori & Dean: Sweet Home Hollywood’.)
I actually just finished reading Tori’s book, sTORI TELLING, last night and I loved it!
It’s been out for awhile, but hey, sometimes I’m slow to getting around to things.
I’ll just say that if you read the book you will see Tori in a whole new light. And her mother, worse than you even thought! I was captivated with the book from the prologue, and the very first thing I learned about Tori stuck with me throughout the rest of the book.
Let me just quote the first page of the prologue..
“When you’re a kid, you don’t worry about what anyone thinks. You go around saying whatever pops into your head or picking your teeth, and it never occurs to you that someone might think you’re gross, awkward, or ridiculous. That was me – picking my nose, snorting when I laughed, wearing white after Labor Day – I just was who I was. That all changed one day at the tender age of twelve when I was getting ready for a family photo. We were having a formal family portrait taken with our dogs (doesn’t everyone do that?), and I was getting frustrated with my bangs. I couldn’t get them to do whatever a twelve-year-old in 1985 wanted bangs to do. So I went into my parents’ bedroom, all dressed up, with my hair done as best I could manage, and asked my mother, “Am I pretty?” She looked at me and said, “You will be when you get your nose done.”
Nice mom, huh? Well, sadly for Tori it never really got much better.
This book is fabulous if you like to read gossip blogs and tabloids. Her life is definitely not boring, and she is, surprisingly, a very grounded person with a fun loving and sometimes crude sense of humor.
And yes, she can laugh at herself. She pokes fun at her insecurities, her facial features (she knows that bloggers call her ‘horseface’), her career, she understands what society’s image of her is. The book shows Tori as you have never seen her. A shy, non-confrontational, caring, funny, genuine person. Not the daddy’s girl, spoiled rich bitch you have come to know through the media.
The book also dishes on various Hollywood stars including the cast of Aaron Spelling’s 90210. (Of course there are some great stories about Shannen Doherty and the self created drama surrounding her!)
And as for Tori and Dean leaving their spouses for one another? It’s 100% true, and Tori tells the story as it happened.
Head over to Amazon.com or your local book store or library and pick up this brutally honest, entertaining and fun book – I promise you’ll enjoy it.



[Photographs: Nathanael Jones, PacificCoastNews.com]