Jennette McCurdy Details How Her Mom Mentally and Physically Abused Her as a Child
09.08.2022 - 15:17
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Jennette McCurdy is opening up about her troubled relationship with her mom, Debra McCurdy. In her new memoir, , the 30-year-old former actress details the emotional and physical abuse she endured throughout her childhood up until her mom's 2013 death from cancer.Jennette's mom overcame her first bout of cancer when the star was a toddler, but she didn't let her family forget about her health battle.
Instead, Jennette writes, Debra had «constant reenactments» from that time, in which she had Jennette and her siblings watch home videos when she was at her most sick. Having Jennette pursue acting was something Debra insisted on, given that her parents hadn't let her follow her own dream to be a star. Ahead of auditions, Debra would have Jennette down sugar-free Red Bulls.And when one of those auditions didn't go well, Jennette writes, her mom would make changes.
When she was considered too «homely» to audition for the lead in , for example, Debra started insisting on a beauty routine for Jennette: using white strips, tinting her eyelashes, and using store-bought hair dye.Eventually, Jennette decided she didn't want to act anymore, a feeling she shared with her mom.«This was our chance! This was ouuuuur chaaaaance!» Jennette recalls her mom saying with «hysteria» in her voice.Around age 11, when Jennette started developing breasts, she worried that her mom wouldn't love her as much if she aged, because Debra «often weeps and holds me really tight and says she just wants me to stay small and young.» When she expressed her fears about growing up to her mom, Debra had a solution: calorie restriction.«I start shrinking by the week as Mom and I team up to count our calories every night and plan our meals for the next day. We’re
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