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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.

Anyway, we moved in when I was seventeen and I only lived there for two years. In some ways the house is like a normal house, but everything is on a bigger scale. It has four floors: the basement (which we call the "Lower Level," probably because that's its designation on the elevator) and the first, second, and third floors. The first floor has a kitchen, a breakfast room, a dining room, an office, a family room, a living room, and a projection room. There's a grand foyer with sweeping staircases on each side. Oh, and there's also a guards' room and the staff dining room. Everyone except fancy guests comes through the service entrance into a hallway with the guards' room and the kitchen.

The kitchen is gigantic, and my fondest memory of it is from when I was twenty-one and had just moved back in after splitting up with a boyfriend. I came home drunk with some girlfriends, and we pillaged the two double-sized Sub-Zero refrigerators. There was always bulk food in there for the staff. We pulled out a big vat of chicken salad and a tub of peanut dressing, both of which looked like they'd been made for giants. Somewhere in the middle of our feast we decided to have a food fight, and the five of us started flinging food at each other. Soon we were covered in peanut dressing from head to toe and the pristine kitchen was a mess. Then we heard a ding, the elevator doors opened, and there was my mother.

She stared at us in silent disbelief. I said, "We're going to clean it up!" She just said, "Mmm hmm," and left the room. I felt a surge of love for her in that moment. It took us hours to clean the kitchen, but it was worth it. That moment made it feel, for once, like home. --Tori Spelling

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Torn over Tori

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I enjoyed a few of the So Notorious episodes I watched on VH1 and thought how open and FUNNY Tori was. I never got really in to the whole 90210 thing, so my exposure to Miss Spelling has been fairly recent. SO I got this book, and could hardly put in down. Although I certainly understand her better, I actually like her less than when I started reading. But she is a person, and a seemingly honest one at that. (and which of us hasn't made a mistake, or a hundred mistakes for that matter) I don't really see how someone who grew up in the whole twisted surreal way that she did could have done much better. I keep feeling horrible for her first husband Charlie, even though I know he should have known better. . But she is frank and infinitely likeable, and even though she still comes across as rather entitled and selfish despite her frequent attempts at self depreciation, I still think I would like to know her. She seems delightfully neurotic and although I don't completely trust her, I think that with her lack of real spiritual direction and guidance from her parents, she is navigating this world much better than most of her peers. Her mother is meant to be villianized in my opinion, but it's her father who gets me angry. I don't think Aaron was fair to Tori, either in his will or in her career. I recommend this book to anyone who likes a glimpse into a world so foreign it's like a different planet.

sTori Telling review	Customer Rating:
I think her book was well put together. I got it to read the dirt that she was to spill and I have to say I was pleased at how she dished her dirt with some class and not hatred. I admire Tori and think she is one of the only famous people that is down to earth! And Dean and the kids are precious. I love watching Tori & Dean!

I loved it!!	Customer Rating:
Very good book, I didn't wanna put it down! Tori Spelling is pretty funny yet serious when she needs to be!

Tori	Customer Rating:
Very good book -- I am reading it now and enjoying it very much. Tori has had a very interesting life and I'm enjoying learning about it.

Just Loved It!

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I absolutely love Tori Spelling! We have all been blessed to see her as "a real person" than of course what pretty much everyone has perceived all these years (little rich girl syndrome) - with the Tori & Dean show and now her wonderful biography. Kudos to you Tori for overcoming sooo many obstacles in your life and being so down to earth - you have won the respect of so many people - and not that you were really wanting or needing to - but I think you have successfully done that (as you stated in your book - just wanted to be normal) and you did it the right way - with respect. I look forward to more Tori & Dean series - to watch you and your adorable family grow - and another biography! To anyone who hasn't bought/read this book - do so, it's worth it! And, if you don't watch her show - do so, worth it as well!!!!