![]() Some people got mad at me about that, but I stand by what I said. So in my pre-review of this book, where I lamented about not being able to find a copy anywhere because of all the HYPE (seriously, I could not find a copy of this anywhere and the library had, like, a five-hundred year wait- thank GOD for my sister sending me a copy as payment for watching her kitten), I said that the people giving this author shit about her choice of title were dickheads. Instagram || Twitter || Facebook || Amazon || Pinterest 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. ![]() Finally, after discovering therapy and quitting acting, Jennette embarks on recovery and decides for the first time in her life what she really wants. 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. 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. Cast in a new Nickelodeon series called iCarly, she is thrust into fame. 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. 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. So she went along with what Mom called “calorie restriction,” eating little and weighing herself five times a day. Her mother’s dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. ► Multiple men are seen handcuffed, being lead away by police officers as a narrator explains that they have been arrested for larceny, deception and theft.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. A man discusses how a woman had told him 13 men bullied her. A man says he knows people who have robbed banks. ► Two men use the analogy of stocks "falling off a cliff" including one of the men using hand gestures of something diving and then saying, "Boom!" A woman uses an analogy that a tsunami was coming but she was only concerned with finding a bathing costume. ► A narrator describes how companies have erected buildings, destroying natural beauty and as he is describing this, we see smoke coming from factories and a flurry of rocks falling down a hill. ► We see news footage of people crowding the street in protest, including a man who appears to have been shoved lying on the ground and a woman standing in front of a small fire in a trashcan and shouting. A man says that scientists turned from developing weapons during the Cold War to developing mathematical weapons of mass destruction. ![]() VIOLENCE/GORE 1 - We see bombs being tested as a narrator explains that money had been given to develop nuclear weapons testing. ► A man says a business had become "mine is bigger than yours" but does not explain the meaning of the phrase. A man says that men would have sex with a prostitute and then go home and be with their wives as though nothing had happened. ► A woman discusses how she ran a brothel and men expensed sex with prostitutes to their businesses and how she and her employees had "serviced men" thousands of times on a monthly basis. ► Men and women frequently discuss how groups of men had purchased sex services from prostitutes, frequently attended strip clubs and would hire prostitutes to entertain business associates, as well as receive lap dances from women. A shirtless man, bare chest and upper shoulders visible, is seen on a boat. Women are seen wearing short dresses and low-cut, cleavage exposing dresses. A woman is seen wearing a low-cut, cleavage exposing top. SEX/NUDITY 4 - Two computer screens are seen with photographs of two women, topless and wearing underwear: one is covering her bare breasts with her hands and the other woman has her torso turned away.
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