Jennette McCurdy on the Runaway Success of Her Memoir, I’m Glad My Mom Died
18.08.2022 - 19:09
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with Miranda Cosgrove and its short-lived spinoff Sam and Cat with , remembers her mom telling her that “writers dress frumpy and get fat, you know? I would never want your little actress’s peach butt to turn into a big, giant writer’s watermelon butt.” So for the rest of her childhood, McCurdy all but stopped writing; even her diary was shared with Debra.Now 30, McCurdy is the author of a newly minted number-one New York Times-bestselling memoir that has also achieved pop-cultural phenomenon status. Its striking title, , has inspired sanctimonious comments on Goodreads and beyond, as well as praise for its brash sense of bravery.
“A lot of people have been coming up to me saying, ‘Hey, my mom’s alive. I can’t say this.
Thank you for saying this for those of us who can’t,’” McCurdy told Vogue this week.Who would openly celebrate the death of their mother, which, for many people, is considered among the most shattering of losses? Someone whose mother’s death was her liberation. McCurdy’s mom, Debra, who died of breast cancer in 2013 when McCurdy was 21, had controlled and abused McCurdy throughout her life, she writes, pulling the puppet strings on McCurdy’s acting career (a dream Debra never achieved for herself) and manipulating her against quitting.
McCurdy says she also urged her into anorexia, which led to bulimia, in an effort to ward off puberty and keep her tiny for childish roles, in addition to insisting on giving her showers during which she administered breast and vaginal exams—which Debra claimed were checks for cancer—until McCurdy was 17.“So what do you say? You want to act? You want to be Mommy’s little actress?” McCurdy recalls her mom asking. Even at six, McCurdy sensed: “There’s only one right
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