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I'm Glad My Mom Died

By: Jennette McCurdy
Narrated by: Jennette McCurdy
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 * #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * MORE THAN 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD!

A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor—including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother—and how she retook control of her life.

Jennette McCurdy was six 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. So she went along with what Mom called “calorie restriction,” eating little and weighing herself five times a day. She endured extensive at-home makeovers while Mom chided, “Your eyelashes are invisible, okay? You think Dakota Fanning doesn’t tint hers?” She was even showered by Mom until age sixteen while sharing her diaries, email, and all her income.

In I’m Glad My Mom Died, Jennette recounts all this in unflinching detail—just as she chronicles what happens when the dream finally comes true. Cast in a new Nickelodeon series called iCarly, she is thrust into fame. Though Mom is ecstatic, emailing fan club moderators and getting on a first-name basis with the paparazzi (“Hi Gale!”), Jennette is riddled with anxiety, shame, and self-loathing, which manifest into eating disorders, addiction, and a series of unhealthy relationships. These issues only get worse when, soon after taking the lead in the iCarly spinoff Sam & Cat alongside Ariana Grande, her mother dies of cancer. Finally, after discovering therapy and quitting acting, Jennette embarks on recovery and decides for the first time in her life what she really wants.

Told with refreshing candor and dark humor, I’m Glad My Mom Died is an inspiring story of resilience, independence, and the joy of shampooing your own hair. Dysfunctional Families Dysfunctional Relationships Entertainment & Celebrities Mental Health Awareness Parenting & Families Relationships Celebrity Inspiring Heartfelt Thought-Provoking Witty Feel-Good Health Cats Mental Health Biography

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"Read by the author, I’m Glad My Mom Died finds McCurdy reassessing her childhood and voicing her mother as only marginally less deranged than Joan Crawford in Mommie Dearest. The book opens with the adult McCurdy and her brothers crowded around a hospital bed where Debra, who has cancer, is in a coma. In an effort to rouse their mother, each sibling fills her in on family news. When it is McCurdy’s turn, she leans in to deliver the bombshell that will surely jolt her mother into consciousness: “Mommy, I am … so skinny right now.” McCurdy’s memoir is full of these comic moments, expertly placed to counterbalance the bleakness elsewhere. The title is provocative but don’t be deceived: rather than a flippant chronicle of childhood resentment, McCurdy’s memoir an insightful portrait of narcissism, familial dysfunction and the ways cruelty can be mistaken for love." (Fiona Sturges)
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The raw honesty of this memoir made me have to pause it several times to just stop and process it all. Jeanette's decision to share her life and its trauma with the world is one that can only be met with respect for the strength she has carried throughout. Her narration at times might feel flatter than you expect of an audiobook, but as the auditory experience of someone retelling their trauma, I think less enthusiasm is completely understandable. Truly a moving listen.

Heartwrenching

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“I’m glad my mom died” is a beautifully written story, honest in ways a lot of people are afraid to be. I’ve been a fan of Jeanette Mccurdy since I was little and to hear her story, from her own perspective how she wants us to know it was a wonderful thing, highly recommend.

Absolutely incredible

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Perfect example of how someone can experience abuse their whole life while believing they are loved. The abuser believing they’re doing everything out of love. Sometimes that love is suffocating and dangerous. Candidly written, beautifully read.

Abuse from love

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This is deeply intimate life story, I really admire the author's courage and honesty. It's not the easy listen as the book makes you realize of your own traumas, especially caused by a relation with your mother. The book is brutal and it had to be this in order to strip down all the misconceptions made in a childhood.

You should read it if you want to know how the trauma is born.
You have to read this if you want to believe in a meaningful recovery of the trauma.

It must took a lot of strength to write this memoir. Thank you Jennette for sharing this - you are really an inspiration.

Jennette is like Fenix!

It touched me to the core

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This is an amazing read, I related to a lot of this. definitely buy it

Wow Amazing

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