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Summary: one of the most fascinating books
Review: O.k I'll admit it...Jennifer Aniston is a big inspiration to me. I think that she fascinates most people and has great empathy. So being the fan I am, I was dying to read this book. In here Nancy goes into her own childhood pains and the inner feelings of her divorce from John Aniston, and of course what it was like to raise Jennifer. No doubt she loves her daughter to death but if your smart enough you'll catch certain things that make you stop and think, What did she just say?? Initally she sees Jennifer as a pure extension of herself and her whole entire life. Who can live with that? She robbed Jennifer of her own idenity growing up, and had a lot of anger and cruelness that she took out on her. But surprisingly towards the end she shows a good amount of insight and understanding that Jennifer is separate person. She even quotes that our children come through you and are not of you- she has an unexpected depth to her and I think that she is trying very hard to overcome and heal and let go of Jen. I think this separation was good for her, and she even states that. She is a flawed person and a flawed mother and caused Jennifer a lot of pain, but I think that her strength is that, similar to her daughter, she has a huge amount of sensitivity and desire to grow as a person.
This book gives you so much compassion for Jennifer which makes her even more beautiful, knowing what she went through, and the pain of the relationship with her mother. It's obvious her mom was worse to Jennifer then she admits in the book, and that she had no clue what was happening inside of her daughter or what she was doing to her. But it's also obvious that now she is beginning to understand and change which can't help but to evoke some compassion. I know what this kind of relationship is like, it's the most brutal in the world and anyone who can over come will have gone through hell and back but in the end it will be worth it. I hope one day they can reconcile. But I hope this time it will be a HEALTHY relationship!!!!! God bless! Some interesting tid bits: * Jennifer and Nancy had a day together in 1999 when they caught up on eachothers lives and touched base, but Nancy says Jennifer ended contact again after this breif encoutner.
* Jennifer learned how to drive in crazy traffic infested Manhattan and even got her drivers license there
* Jennifer tried to run away once when she was 16 and planned to meet a friend on a corner to help her, but the friend never showed up and Nancy didn't learn about this until after Jen was famous and this was published in an article.
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Summary: one of the most fascinating books
Review: O.k I'll admit it...Jennifer Aniston is a big inspiration to me. I think that she fascinates most people and has great empathy. So being the fan I am, I was dying to read this book. In here Nancy goes into her own childhood pains and the inner feelings of her divorce from John Aniston, and of course what it was like to raise Jennifer. No doubt she loves her daughter to death but if your smart enough you'll catch certain things that make you stop and think, What did she just say?? Initally she sees Jennifer as a pure extension of herself and her whole entire life. Who can live with that? She robbed Jennifer of her own idenity growing up, and had a lot of anger and cruelness that she took out on her. But surprisingly towards the end she shows a good amount of insight and understanding that Jennifer is separate person. She even quotes that our children come through you and are not of you- she has an unexpected depth to her and I think that she is trying very hard to overcome and heal and let go of Jen. I think this separation was good for her, and she even states that. She is a flawed person and a flawed mother and caused Jennifer a lot of pain, but I think that her strength is that, similar to her daughter, she has a huge amount of sensitivity and desire to grow as a person.
This book gives you so much compassion for Jennifer which makes her even more beautiful, knowing what she went through, and the pain of the relationship with her mother. It's obvious her mom was worse to Jennifer then she admits in the book, and that she had no clue what was happening inside of her daughter or what she was doing to her. But it's also obvious that now she is beginning to understand and change which can't help but to evoke some compassion. I know what this kind of relationship is like, it's the most brutal in the world and anyone who can over come will have gone through hell and back but in the end it will be worth it. I hope one day they can reconcile. But I hope this time it will be a HEALTHY relationship!!!!! God bless! Some interesting tid bits: * Jennifer and Nancy had a day together in 1999 when they caught up on eachothers lives and touched base, but Nancy says Jennifer ended contact again after this breif encoutner.
* Jennifer learned how to drive in crazy traffic infested Manhattan and even got her drivers license there
* Jennifer tried to run away once when she was 16 and planned to meet a friend on a corner to help her, but the friend never showed up and Nancy didn't learn about this until after Jen was famous and this was published in an article.
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Summary: The author seemingly has lots of "Friends"
Review: Otherwise I cannot understand how anyone could give more than one star to this book. The woman who wrote attacking an earlier reviewer (i.e. "Ignore 'How COULD she' review") and the "Psychotherapist" seem really like a lame and desperate attempt to legitimize this piece of celb-trash which is so common. I found the copy of this book forgotten in a bus. A bus! And as I started poring over it I soon found out why. Its style is saccharine and obvious, though I must say that it seems rather properly written, it makes an exhaustive experience for the reader making references to things one does not care about. I don't care much about books that reveal the skinny on celebs, except if they are done by celebs, and not desperate wannabes, as apparently, Jennifer Aniston's mother seems to be. Too bad. But I think that if this actress decided to put distance between her and the author of the book, my, she must have had powerful reasons and this book is one of them for sure. It's so pat it's realy offensive.
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Summary: Betrayal
Review: Please keep in mind, this is the main reason that Jennifer doesn't speak to her mother.
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Summary: A helpful book
Review: Since I am in a similar situation (estrangement from my daughter), I certainly appreciated Nancy Anniston's honesty in writing her story. It helped me to understand myself better.
My daughter has had emotional problems. Despite this she has been a high achiever in her adulthood. She also is a performer and though she is not anywhere near the level of Nancy's daughter, this is the way I keep up with what is going on in her life. I have two sons, one daughter-in-law and my husband who is also the father of my daughter. I have a close, loving and caring relationship with all of them and this is what has helped me the most. I love my daughter and until two years ago we had an exceptionally close relationship. She is married and started to see a new therapist. She has spoken to us occasionally and does keep in sporadic contact with one of her brothers. We have kept this from the knowledge of family and friends but don't know how long that can go on.
I hope Nancy is well. She describes perfectly the pain of this estrangement and has been a help to me. No matter what, we loved our daughters and tried to make them happy.
Thank you, Nancy.
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Summary: in need of a talented therapist..
Review: The book should have been titled, "me, me ,me"...I can only hope that Jennifer Aniston continues to nurture and be nurtured by her relationships with the people in her life that love her..I found the book to be very sad and in a sense, a cry for help..
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Summary: in need of a talented therapist..
Review: The book should have been titled, "me, me ,me"...I can only hope that Jennifer Aniston continues to nurture and be nurtured by her relationships with the people in her life that love her..I found the book to be very sad and in a sense, a cry for help..
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Summary: as a child of a overprotective mom i have this to say
Review: The first few chapters I found too wordy I almost stopped reading it. I could read between the lines and realized that Nancy Aniston was about as overly protective as my mom and I felt the fear and anger again and I felt that in itself was the problem. Although she acknowledged she did a terrible thing and worried about her daughter's reaction, she was surprised at how upset her daughter was. But I noticed her son did not return her calls either thus he understood Jennifer's upset. I picked up reading the book later and it got into the story of Nancy: her perspective of what happened with respect to her family and friends. That part of the book was really interesting. I came away understanding her more. Although the father did not look too good there was enough information in the book to see how the father did not see things her way and felt his struggle was his own. It's really sad because she really did care for both husband and daughter in her own way and the story tells her perspective of how that is so. After her husband left she went through a similiar struggle of trying to find herself and a career at a late age. It's very unfortunate she got in a car accident and is unable to work. It's sad that both her husband and daughter are doing so well they don't realize that even if they can't reach out to her in a relation the same as before (because they felt she was too much into their life which in a way she was) I think they should help her out alittle financially as just a token of appreciation that she was both wife and mother to them and did her very best. I wish this family well and I hope they can develop some kind of relationship even if it is a different one.
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Summary: A waste of time and money...
Review: This book has nothing to do with Jennifer Aniston really. Her self-absorbed neurotic mother is simply making a sad attempt to capitalize on her fame. And if that werent bad enough, it's BORING, shallow, poorly written, and completely transparent. The time I spent foolishly reading this book is regretfully several hours of my life I can never get back. Don't bother.
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Summary: Absolutely absorbing Autobiography
Review: This is the most fascinating book I have read in the last years. It is written in such an amiable way that I just couldn't stop reading. It tells the story of a lovely woman who has to cope with a lot of obstacles and frustrations in her life, but is always strong enough to overcome them and never loses vitality. You learn a lot of intressting issues on Jennifer Anistons childhood and adolesence, which makes Jennifer even more simpatico than she already is. Unlike another reviewer said here before, I would in no way accuse Nancy of writing this book only to make money. First of all I think she just needed to rectify all the things that were written about her relationship to Jennifer in the press and secondly there are enough hints in the book that she is not out for money at all. Of course there is no guaranty that everything in this book is true, but through the way Nancy Aniston critises her own doings, she seems to be an honest person, and what comes out throughout the whole story, is that she deeply loves her daughter, whatever she may have said on TV to disappoint her. I started to read the book as I wanted to get to know as much about Jennifer as I could, because she is such a wonderful artist, but now I'm a fan of her mothers as well. I hope for both of them that they found or will find a way to reconvene.
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