Mommywood
Selected Book Details
- Hardcover
- Edition: First Edition
- Author: Tori Spelling
- Publisher: Simon Spotlight Entertainment
- Release Date: April 2009
- ISBN-10: 141659910X
- ISBN-13: 9781416599104
- List Price: $25.00
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummaryTori 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. |
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Tori you're a darling
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I was also won over by her first book. Instead of the 90210 princess I always thought she was, Tori's books have proven her to be a wonderful woman who deals with real problems. Sure, her life is probably grander than yours or mine, but she has a real down to earth attitude about things that makes her writing a pleasure to read. Thank you, Tori.
Better than sTORI Telling
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I liked Mommywood a lot better than sTORI Telling. In her sophmore effort, Tori writes about being a mom, moving into a suburban neighborhood and trying to fit in with the neighbors, PUTP (hilarious!), the dynamic of step-families, marriage counseling...all topics that I found so much more interesting than those of her first book (what went on on the set of 90210, how she slept with Dean when they were both married to other people, etc). Funny and down to earth. I definitely came away from the first book being kind of annoyed by Tori, and I came away from this one really liking her.
Watch the show?....Nothing new!
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If you watch her show...there was really nothing new in this book. But I did enjoy reading it. I couldn't put down her first book, "sTori telling". I read that in less than 24 hours...Mommywood took me about a week as it didn't captivate me as much.
delightful read for fans of Tori, moms or those searching for a funny book
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Facing an eight-hour drive alone for a wedding this summer, I immediately picked Mommywood on audio book (read by Tori Spelling). I admit it, I'm a Tori fan. I grew up watching 90210, and I looked up to her as a somewhat normal girl (I was a kid, remember). So NoTorious is one of the funniest shows ever made (seriously, I didn't believe until I watched it; even nomadreaderboy likes it.) I loved reading sTori Telling to get her perspective on her life, and I even read Candy's delightful and bizarre memoir, Stories from Candyland. Yes, I watched Tori and Dean: Inn Love and still watch Tori and Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood. I am the target audience for this book. I find Tori delightful and fascinating.
It was a great book to listen to on audio. I often have a hard time getting into audio books, so it helped to have a familiar voice and some familiar stories (from the tv show) to lure me in. Tori is refreshingly honest, and despite being on a reality show, it's amazing how little you know of her thoughts on events. Sure, I knew their lives were squished down and edited into neatly-sized episodes, but it's different to hear the emotions only from her, without Dean's reaction shot or the scene ending. There were times I was glad I had seen the show because it gave me a different perspective, but there were also a few moments the storytelling lagged because I knew how it ended.
I can't speak to the mommy part of the title, but I imagine mothers who aren't fans of Tori would still enjoy this book. She certainly has a unique parenting experience, but it's always surprising and interesting what parts of Tori's life seem normal and what parts seem unreal. I actually enjoyed Mommywood more than sTori Telling. They're different books, even though they're both memoirs. Mommywood deals with motherhood and childhood and how it changed Tori. Her kids are young, and her emotions and situations are fresher.
Leave Your Mom Out of It!
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Here's hoping that if Tori writes another book (and, why shouldn't she? It's a guaranteed payday) she does not name her mother, even in passing. I will be so happy if I never hear her mention Candy Spelling on her reality show, either.
Tori is very likable, but she gets nasty when she talks about her mom in public. I can totally understand Tori discussing her upbringing in her first book, but now I'm so over it. This book (as I mentioned in my review for Candy's book) should have been called "I Hate My Mother (but why won't she call?)". Stop telling us that you TEXTED her or E-MAILED her, as if that's the only way to get in touch. You know where she lives. GO THERE. Call her. Have it out. Or don't. But stop dragging us into it. It makes me want to turn off the t.v. when I see Tori crying over her mom and it makes me want to throw her book away when she points out all of her mother's shortcomings (and that Nanny was her real mom). If you wanted this to be a positive book, then tell us all the things that Nanny did to teach you about being a good mother. We'll get it without you hitting us over the head with it. Mom sucks.
When she focuses on her husband and family and friends, I love Tori. I loved the scene in their show when Dean really let Tori have it saying "I told you so" when her mom no-showed at the b-day party. I loved that! Yea to Dean for trying to knock some sense into her. Tori, appreciate what you have and stop trying to make people like you who cannot see past their own reflection. Let it go. Cut the ties. I wouldn't want my kids anywhere near that woman. Be thankful that she isn't influencing them.
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