Ariana: The Biography

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However, it’s Grande’s emotional and personal music creations (which are often based on events in her life) that have driven her relatability and authenticity among an international audience. Suddenly, I feel just like that little eleven-year-old girl who was confused and scared and uncertain. That eleven-year-old girl who was doubtful that I knew the whole truth of my situation, who was unsure that my mother was the hero she pretended to be, but who shoved that doubt down." So this book is a lot, but it is also very good and seems very healing. I was under the impression based on how it was presented and marketed that this was more of a comedic memoir, so heads up if that was what you assumed as well, but the weight and power of her words as she discusses a lifetime of abuse is definitely worth reading for. It does read very plainly, almost like a “class assignment” type of tone recounting events, though they are certainly difficult memories to have to revisit. I hope McCurdy is doing well, and it is very honorable of her to use her experience to reach out and help others in this way. There could have been more depth to some of it, but this is less a look at the causes and social critiques and more at the personal effects she endured. There are great reminders too about how to move forward and not get bogged down in being perfect, such as when she writes that ‘ slips are totally normal. When you have a slip, it’s just that. A slip. It doesn’t define you. It doesn’t make you a failure. The most important thing is that you don’t let that slip become a slide‘. I won’t get too much more into it, as you should probably read the book and this is McCurdy's story to tell, but I am very glad I read this.

It has been a long time since I have felt seen. The last book that I felt really conveyed the complexity of a dysfunctional parent-child relationship is The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls. The pop sensation now has many achievements under her belt including Billboard’s Women in Music Woman of the Year, and several awards from the VMAs, AMAs, GRAMMYs, and more. I think the only way to prevent child actors from being exploited by parents and crew members is by appointing an internal committee in every shooting set that even has access to mental health care professionals if needed. This committee should ensure that a certain percentage of children's earnings should be solely used for children's personal needs like education. This will prevent the children from being monetarily misused by their parents. this is a very candid account on the abuse jennette mccurdy suffered at the hands of her narcissistic mother, and how that merged with her experience as a child actress. i don’t think you need to be familiar with her show, or even know/care about her as a person to glean lots from this book, and i think it's an important text that could even be considered historical, due to her nature as a public figure and the way her story is likely representative of a much larger population of child actors. Jennette McCurdy is extremely talented in her writing and i hope she writes more in the future (whatever genre idc, i’ll read anything) because this book alone was a literary masterpiece.

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Falling into a narcissistic romantic relationship is a harrowing experience. Being the daughter of a narcissistic mother is a much more painful experience. This book shows how her mother totally controlled her daughter's life. The author tells us how proper medical help and therapy after such a long physical and mental abuse helped her recover from such abysmal despair. Her mother’s abuse was tough to hear. It’s more painful to see how much Jennette wanted to appease her mom all the way until the very end of her life. She consistently put her mom’s needs before her own and her mom would willingly exploit and manipulate her knowing this. I also felt very connected to Jennette and had a lot of empathy for her. I grew up in LA County and am VERY familiar with almost every location she references in the LA/Orange County area. I literally drive by the Westminster Mall (which she references being that she grew up in Garden Grove, and which is basically a nonexistent ghost mall now) every day on the freeway on my way to work. Cantor said he had actually received “a lot of support” over the book, “contrary to what was put out there”.

Ariana Grande has streak rules for paparazzi like to not take a picture of her right side. Also,once Ariana grande was not pretty in a picture with a fan so Ariana obliged the fan to take of that picture, and didn’t take another picture with that fan. In the positive way Ariana Grande has more fans than enemies because fans do not believe what paparazzis say. Every time that Ariana is in front of her fans, Ariana acts like the paparazzi story didn’t exist. Ariana Grande and Taylor Swift were invited to sing at the “Victoria Secret” fashion show. A model came with big angel outfit and Ariana was singing, so the model heated Ariana’s head with he strong wings! Ariana was pretending that it was all write, but actually Ariana was very mad. Ariana didn’t express herself because Ariana wants all the enemies to become her fans. Every one knows that Ariana has a good heart, but is a pop star diva. Now less people are gossiping about Ariana Grande because it had been a while that Ariana didn’t do a big concert or even a new song. The last big concert Ariana did was when Rihanna laughed about her dancing. At the end of the show Rihanna said the reason why there was so much laughter with in her table was because of a silly memory that Rihanna remembered. Everyone knows that Rihanna was actually laughing about Ariana’s dancing and make others in the V.I.P table laugh too. Basically the people that gossip a lot about Ariana Grande except the paparazzi are simply jealous. Ariana knows that it’s not just paparazzi it’s also the people that don’t like her, like this book said jealous people. Ariana tries to ignore the bad ones and go to her world with the nice fans. The letter coincides with National Banned Book Month and corresponds with a movement by Republican-led governments and conservative groups to ban books in schools, particularly those related to LGBTQ+ issues or race. Book bans hit an all-time high in the US in 2022 across 21 years of recording, according to Education Week. The research organization Pen America recorded more than 4,000 book challenges and bans in school districts since June 2021. In Texas, there were 1,269 documented censorship attempts to restrict 2,571 unique titles in 2022 – the highest number ever recorded by the American Library Association’s Office of Intellectual Freedom and double the 729 book challenges made in 2021. In Jennette's case, she had Ariana Grande as the co-star in one of the shows, and she developed a habit of comparing her life with Ariane's. This is a habit we should never develop, and the author tells us all the troubles she had to face due to this behavior.

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But our wardrobe designer said that The Creator explicitly asked for bikinis, and so she had to at least have me try on one or two of them so he had the option. ” Most streamed pop album in one week (USA) – Thank U, Next attracted 307 million on-demand audio streams in the US in the week following the album’s release on 8 February 2019, easily surpassing the 126.7 million streams for Ed Sheeran’s ÷ (Divide) when it landed at No.1 on 25 March 2017. Though her career continues to grow, Grande regularly expresses gratitude for her accolades across her social media and through her efforts with organizations such as Opportunity Fund, Feeding America, and Give Directly. Fast forward ten years, and now Jennette McCurdy, unencumbered by a character she seems to wish she'd never had to embody, has written her own truth. It's raw, unfiltered and without pretense and possesses more than a little of that jaded humor, suggesting that maybe you can never fully escape who you are, even when you're acting. Why do we romanticize the dead? Why can't we be honest about them? Especially moms, they're the most romanticized of anyone. ”

To me, reading and rating a memoir is something delicate, because that person is opening up about their experiences, their traumas, thoughts and emotions that are very private or painful sometimes. In the fashion realm, Grande’s iconic style has also made her one of the most recognizable celebrities in the industry, from her commanding ponytail to her brightly coloured baby doll dresses. Admiro mucho el trabajo que hizo Jennette para escribir este libro, ya que se nota el trabajo de exploración para recordar las emociones que sintió desde que tenía 6 años, hasta las dificultades que tuvo que pasar para poder sanarlas. At the end of a long day, my mom swung by a fast-food restaurant. She demanded that I go up and see what the operating hours were. Being super introverted, I hesitated. She started screaming, letting off a stream of obscenities. The actress said she became 'a bitter person' because she had had to turn down projects due to her commitment to iCarly while Grande appeared to get a free pass. 'So I have to turn down movies while Ariana’s off whistle-toning at the Billboard Music Awards,' she wrote. 'Ariana misses work in pursuit of her music career while I act with a box. I’m pissed about it. And I’m pissed at her. Jealous of her.' She added that she was envious of Ariana because 'she had a much easier upbringing than I did'.Her tattoos have even caught global attention, with one of her designs earning the record for most popular Eevee tattoo. The writing is easy to read but still poignant. I think Jennette did a great job recounting the events of her life. I especially appreciate how she recounted her childhood; she really nailed writing from the perspective of a naïve child who doesn’t realize how awful her mother is.