Product details: - Hardcover: 278 pages, First Edition Edition
- Author: Nancy Aniston
- Publisher: Prometheus Books
- Publication Date: 1999-09
- Studio: Prometheus Books
- Manufacturer: Prometheus Books
- Package Dimensions: 9.32 x 49 x 75 inches
Features: - ISBN13: 9781573927727
- Condition: USED - Good
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Engagingly written as a journal of fond memories, life experiences, lessons learned, and tragedies overcome, this is the story of the family that gave the world actress Jennifer Aniston. Written by her mother, Nancy Aniston, this tender, poetic, and charming memoir represents a healing exercise, and most importantly serves as an example of how to cope with and understand estrangement between parent and child. During the meteoric rise of Jennifer's popularity on the hit television comedy 'Friends', Nancy and her daughter had a misunderstanding imposed on them by a tabloid TV report. In the three years since they last spoke, Nancy learned that separation from grown children is a national epidemic and that scores of parents suffer the same feelings of pain, guilt, and shame. This knowledge inspired Nancy Aniston to record family memories in this compelling volume, 'and in the process of detailed retrospection a miraculous healing took place'. Nancy chronicles her own childhood of poverty, abandonment, failed marriages, and the difficult early years as a single mother. She recalls Jennifer's early love for the theatre, the therapists, career managers, and hangers-on who endangered family bonds as she guided her daughter through the exciting, sometimes disappointing, stages of an acting career that came to realise phenomenal success. While refusing the lure of celebrity gossip, Nancy Aniston strives to secure her story's inherent dignity, hoping it will be helpful to those trying to overcome their own childhood trauma, fallout from divorce, single-parenting issues, and the 'dark hole of child/parent estrangement'.Customer reviews:  Like Mother Like Daughter, 2008-12-11
When it is all said and done and you listen to the babble of Jennifer about her "saving lives" by being in Friends. "Cancer patients crying in her arms with gratitude", you see the basic similarities here. They are both sad. Money and talent cannot buy class. The way she publicized her divorce and man trouble and flaunted relationships ) all the while whining out, "WHY ARE PEOPLE SO INTO ALL OF THIS? GET OVER IT!" when she clearly cannot get over it herself is EXACTLY like the Mother in this book. Her protests are her attempt to cover up her pettiness.
So sad, so needy both of them.
 If We Could All Be As Perfect as Jennifer, 2008-06-13
Bottom line of this book is how can any celebrity treat their mother like dirt and not have anything to do with her for 9 years just over one stupid TV interview. I guess Jennifer does not have a forgiving bone in her body. She dumped her own mother and began clinging to Courtney Cox as her surrogate mother. If anything, Jennifer is the needy, whiney and insecure and selfish person here - not Nancy Aniston. Nancy has gone through horrifying things in her life and did not have a nervous breakdown and was able to care for and nuture Jennifer and what did Nancy get for that? A big, fat kick in the rear. Children are not perfect and neither are their mothers. Talk to each other and work things out is what you do. There are too many children who are treating their parents this way nowadays. Why? Because they don't want to be bothered - they don't want to spend time with them as they are too busy with their own lives and family. It is sickening. Family values have gone out the window. I think Nancy wrote a true and honest heartfelt account of her life which does include Jennifer whether Jennifer likes it or not. Nancy has every right to write a book if she wanted to. Everything is not all about Jennifer. What? Jennifer becomes a movie and TV star so her whole family has to stop existing and speaking?
Pa-leeze...
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