This was an interesting book for me. I did not have much knowledge about Brooke's Shields entry into the entertainment industry. I had watched her in Blue Lagoon and some TV shows. I was captivated reading about her relationship with her mother, an alcoholic, growing up as a child actor. Brooke's mother managed her career for a long time. I was fascinated of this relationship because of Brooke's love of her mother but hate for the alcoholism that made her mother distant emotionally and often physically. Reading about Brooke's experience watching her mother die was very close to my heart. My mother also passed away in 2012 but from cancer, not an addiction.