sTORI Telling » (Reprint)

Tori Spelling is an actress whose career spans theater, television, and film. She's received critical praise for her work in such independent films as Trick and The House of Yes. Recently she both starred in and executive produced the comedy series So NoTORIous on VH1 and the popular reality series Tori & Dean: Inn Love on Oxygen. She lives with her husband, Dean McDermott, and son, Liam, in Los Angeles.

She was television's most famous virgin -- and, as Aaron Spelling's daughter, arguably its most famous case of nepotism. Portraying Donna Martin on Beverly Hills, 90210, Tori Spelling became one of the most recognizable young actresses of her generation, with a not-so-private personal life every bit as fascinating as her character's exploits. Yet years later the name Tori Spelling too often closed -- and sometimes slammed -- the same doors it had opened.

sTORI telling is Tori's chance to finally tell her side of the tabloid-worthy life she's led, and she talks about it all: her decadent childhood birthday parties, her nose job, her fairy-tale wedding to the wrong man, her so-called feud with her mother. Tori has already revealed her flair for brilliant, self-effacing satire on her VH1 show So NoTORIous and Oxygen's Tori & Dean: Inn Love, but her memoir goes deeper, into the real life behind the rumors: her complicated relationship with her parents; her struggles as an actress after 90210; her accident-prone love life; and, ultimately, her quest to define herself on her own terms.

From her over-the-top first wedding to finding new love to her much-publicized -- and misunderstood -- "disinheritance," sTORI telling is a juicy, eye-opening, enthralling look at what it really means to be Tori Spelling.

Publishers Weekly

This bestselling memoir by former Beverly Hills 90210 star Spelling relates her much talked-about life, from the flamboyant childhood birthday parties to her over-the-top marriage to Mr. Wrong and subsequent marriage to Mr. Right. While many are familiar with the actress from her recent reality series, this book delves deeper into her personal life to reveal secrets the tabloids missed. No stranger to performing, Spelling reads with a commanding tone and manages to tell her story with care and attention to detail, which serves to draw even the most skeptical of listeners in for the duration. Spelling is quite likable and manages to shatter the image of the spoiled daughter of a Hollywood heavyweight as she connects with her audience on an entirely new level. A Simon Spotlight hardcover. (Dec.)

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Contents

Prologue

1. X Marks the Spot

2. How to Sell Lemonade

3. Nepotism Works Both Ways

4. They Hated Me at Hello

5. America's Virgin

6. Confrontation Is Inevitable

7. Build Me Up, Buttercup

8. No More Mr. Not-Nice Guy

9. Strings Attached (or Why I Didn't Notice That I Shouldn't Be Getting Married)

10. Last-Minute Changes

11. The Joke's on Me

12. The Evil Eye

13. The Real Fairy Tale

14. Breaking News

15. Safe at Last

16. Is That a Knife in Your Purse or AreYou Just Glad to See Me?

17. What? It Doesn't Grow on Trees?

18. A New Family

19. You Can Never Go Home Again

20. B and B...and B

Acknowledgments