I'm Glad My Mom Died
Edition: First Simon & Schuster edition
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2022-08
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: eBook
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781982185848
Copyright date: 2022
First sentence: It’s strange how we always give big news to loved ones in a coma, as if a coma is just a thing that happens from a lack of something to be excited about in your life.
Description: Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother’s dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went along with what Mom called “calorie restriction,” eating little and weighing herself five times a day. 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.

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. Cast in a new Nickelodeon series called iCarly, she is thrust into fame. 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. 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. Finally, after discovering therapy and quitting acting, Jennette embarks on recovery and decides for the first time in her life what she really wants.

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.
Table of contents: title: Cover; title: Title Page; title: Dedication; title: Prologue; title: Before; title: Chapter 1; title: Chapter 2; title: Chapter 3; title: Chapter 4; title: Chapter 5; title: Chapter 6; title: Chapter 7; title: Chapter 8; title: Chapter 9; title: Chapter 10; title: Chapter 11; title: Chapter 12; title: Chapter 13; title: Chapter 14; title: Chapter 15; title: Chapter 16; title: Chapter 17; title: Chapter 18; title: Chapter 19; title: Chapter 20; title: Chapter 21; title: Chapter 22; title: Chapter 23; title: Chapter 24; title: Chapter 25; title: Chapter 26; title: Chapter 27; title: Chapter 28; title: Chapter 29; title: Chapter 30; title: Chapter 31; title: Chapter 32; title: Chapter 33; title: Chapter 34; title: Chapter 35; title: Chapter 36; title: Chapter 37; title: Chapter 38; title: Chapter 39; title: Chapter 40; title: Chapter 41; title: Chapter 42; title: Chapter 43; title: Chapter 44; title: Chapter 45; title: Chapter 46; title: Chapter 47; title: Chapter 48; title: Chapter 49; title: Chapter 50; title: Chapter 51; title: Chapter 52; title: Chapter 53; title: Chapter 54; title: Chapter 55; title: After; title: Chapter 56; title: Chapter 57; title: Chapter 58; title: Chapter 59; title: Chapter 60; title: Chapter 61; title: Chapter 62; title: Chapter 63; title: Chapter 64; title: Chapter 65; title: Chapter 66; title: Chapter 67; title: Chapter 68; title: Chapter 69; title: Chapter 70; title: Chapter 71; title: Chapter 72; title: Chapter 73; title: Chapter 74; title: Chapter 75; title: Chapter 76; title: Chapter 77; title: Chapter 78; title: Chapter 79; title: Chapter 80; title: Chapter 81; title: Chapter 82; title: Chapter 83; title: Chapter 84; title: Chapter 85; title: Chapter 86; title: Chapter 87; title: Chapter 88; title: Chapter 89; title: Chapter 90; title: Chapter 91; title: Acknowledgments; title: About the Author; title: Copyright