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I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
5.0

This was a powerful, heartbreaking, candid memoir written by Jennette and I couldn’t recommend it more (with some caution)! It took me a couple weeks to get though this one because of how heavy it is and how triggering it can be so I had to space out my reading of it to be able to take care of my own mental health. So if you want to read this book, just make sure you look up trigger warnings and be safe! One of the biggest trigger warnings I can give is eating disorder imagery. There’s a lot more that I will list below but there is a lot of very graphic depictions of her eating disorders pretty much throughout the entire book. So just be prepared for that when reading!

I think memoirs are very hard to review because you can’t really judge someone’s story in their own words. So because of that, im not going to say much except that im really glad Jennette was able to write this book and get her story out there and I hope it was really cathartic for her and was able to give her some peace! She wrote her story beautifully and I’m very glad she was able to quit acting and start living for herself ♥️

Trigger warnings (probably not even close to all of them so definitely look them up before picking it up): parental abuse, eating disorders (anorexia, bulimia, and binging), alcoholism, ocd, anxiety, depression, parent death, panic attacks, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, etc.