Book Corner: sTORI Telling by Tori Spelling

I'm just going to admit it. I watch Tori and Dean: Inn Love and I find it enjoyable. They seem to care about each other, they seem happy but can get annoyed with each other and they seem to basically be like any other couple just trying to get by. They recognize they have some extra weird issues because she is Tori Spelling and and they try to just do the best they can to get around that. I just can't help but find them endearing. And now I have to admit it, but even after reading sTORI Telling I still feel the same.

Tori is very matter-of-fact about much of her life. She also doesn't expect people to have a lot of sympathy for "rich kid problems." She recognizes that her childhood was bizarre, but at the time she didn't know any better. She also acknowledges She doesn't gloss over her strained relationship with her mother, or the weird ways her father sometimes fueled that fire. Being Aaron Spelling's daughter helped start her career, but it also kept her from getting auditions. She was never taught to manage money which is fine until the gravy train suddenly dries up at the whim of your mother. A rich kid problem, for sure, but also part of the reason she let a crappy boyfriend spend all her 90210 earnings. She talks about her lavish first wedding and how her mom would say that she was going to pay for something and then after the money had been spent, take it back and leave Tori with the bill. Which I'm sorry, but that is crap. If you tell someone you are paying for the $10,000 flowers or whatever, then you should pony up the dough.

Tori doesn't pull any punches about her first marriage, what it really meant/symbolized and how she cheated on him when she met Dean. Which I find refreshing. She definitely feels like "yeah, I cheated, it wasn't the best thing I could have done, but I did it and I'm sorry it hurt people but I'm happy and this is where we are now." And she loves her husband and she loves her kid and I imagine she's going to love new baby when it comes. And I hope she's happy. I'm sorry, but I just feel like for the "fantastic" life she supposedly lived, she kind of got shafted. I hope that her second marriage sticks and that she works things out with her mom as much as she can and that she and her family can just live their lives.