Mommywood: Book Review

I love Tori Spelling. I have for a long time. She's a pretty rad chick. I even liked her while she was on 90210 (but really who didn't). I watch her show, Tori and Dean Home Sweet Hollywood. Eepp... Last night was the premiere. Don't tell me what happened. I haven't seen it yet. I was busy watching Rudolph and the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. So I should be catching up on it very soon... it'll be on repeat I'm sure. I seem to be behind on things sometimes... like reading her book Mommywood. I didn't even read the first one, ya know, cause I'm always behind and all. Well a few weeks ago, maybe months but who's counting, I bought Mommywood when Border's closed. It was cheap and I figured that if I hated it that at least I had bought it for cheap. Lets get something straight first though. I wanted to buy it right when Borders announced their sale, they only had a few left, but Dave made me wait... and  wait... and wait... until finally I bought it. I didn't even read it for a few weeks either. Not till we got on that plane ride to good ol' California, ya know, where Tori lives.  Well I read and read that book and here are my thoughts on it.

 Overview: IF YOU THOUGHT TINSELTOWN WAS TOUGH . . .Tori Spelling might have grown up with everything a girl could wish for, but these days she’s just another suburban working mom . . . whose toddler regularly recognizes her in the pages of US Weekly. Welcome to Mommywood, where the stars are two feet tall and your neighbors know who you are before you move in. Like most parents, Tori wants her children to have the one thing she didn’t have as a kid—a normal family. On their hit Oxygen reality show, Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood, the starlet and her husband Dean McDermott regularly wrestle dirty diapers, host the neighborhood block party, and tackle temper tantrums on the red carpet. But when the cameras aren’t rolling, Tori’s still having awkward run-ins with a former 90210 costar at a laser tag birthday party, scooping rogue poo out of the kiddie pool on a resort vacation, and racing to win back her pre-baby body before the media starts calling her fat. For all her suburban fantasies, Tori Spelling is no June Cleaver. With the same down-to-earth wit that made her entertaining memoir sTORI telling a #1 New York Times bestseller, Tori tells the hilarious and humbling stories of life as a mom in the limelight, from learning to be the kind of parent her own mother never was to revealing what it’s like to raise a family while everyone is watching. Mommywood is an irresistible snapshot of celebrity parenthood that you won’t get from the paparazzi.

Me here: Ok. I loved this book. It was easy to read, easy to understand and a quick read. I won't lie to you friends, but I am a slow reader, I always have been. I want to make sure I understand all that I have read and remember it. So this was quick. I read it start to finish on my flight to Cali from Tennessee.  I love her sense of humor and up front honesty. I don't even have kids and loved it. She did reference back to some stories from the first book, ya know the one I didn't read, but while referencing she would quickly explain what happened so that when she was moving forward with her new story it would all make sense. Which I appreciated. So, to review my review (ha!) I loved it, you should buy it, even if you have babes, it makes sense and is funny. :)

xo, Steph

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