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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'.

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  • Hardcover: 278 pages
  • Publisher: Prometheus Books (September 1999)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1573927724
  • ISBN-13: 978-1573927727
  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #657,613 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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40 of 47 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Not all it was cracked up to be, May 24, 2001
By imnoangel1975 (San Francisco) - See all my reviews
While I understand that separation from one's child is difficult and makes for interesting reading, I failed to understand or sympathize with Nancy Aniston. This book is neither insiteful nor hopeful. The author (for some reason or another) feels it important to express in nearly every page of the book that she is a knock-out beauty, raving intellect and talented in everything she attempts. It is important to recognize one's own self beauty and self worth, but it is also important to express humility. Nancy Aniston also goes on to say that she was responsible for her 2nd husband's career success and without her pushing him so hard, he would have never left the sofa. The author comes across as vain, bitter and misunderstanding of others' need to push her away, including her famous daughter, Jennifer. I found her self-pitying attitude hard to swallow. This book seems more like a defense tactic, rather than a book of love, insite or hope. And one more point I would like to make... I was reading others' reviews of the same book and noticed a review written by "Coral Leigh", a name that looked familiar. Coral Leigh is a personal friend of Nancy Aniston's - her name is mentioned in the book itself. I can hardly recommend that anyone interpret her written review of this book as impartial and objective.
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25 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars The author seemingly has lots of "Friends", March 21, 2000
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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16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Bleeding Heart, May 2, 2005
By Lois Lane "LL" (Kansas City, MO) - See all my reviews
This is one of the most trite books I have ever picked up to read. The entire story is that of a desperate woman trying to understand why her famous daughter no longer desires a relationship with her...well it is obvious! She sold her out once during a television interview and in her attempt to rekindle the relationship she sold her out again by writing this trashy novel.
Throughout the book she attempts to appear deep, when really her writing comes off worse than a beginning writing course at a community college.
This book is a serious waste of time and money, and frankly if I were Jennifer Aniston I wouldn't bother with a mother like that either.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Like Mother Like Daughter
When it is all said and done and you listen to the babble of Jennifer about her "saving lives" by being in Friends. Read more
Published 15 months ago by R. Taylor

4.0 out of 5 stars If We Could All Be As Perfect as Jennifer
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. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Lynne Berry

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Book for stay at home moms
i think this is a great warning to women who give their whole life away to their husbands and leave nothing for themselves. Read more
Published on August 1, 2006 by cedars

5.0 out of 5 stars From Mother and Daughter to Friends: A Memoir
Nancy Aniston is a very bitter woman. Her memoir is written with such condescension about her family and friends that one wonders if her psycho bable camaflages her self centered... Read more
Published on July 3, 2005 by William T. Greene Jr.

3.0 out of 5 stars an overpaid tv star, who must believe her own publicity
I just finished this book, and I can't believe the reviews I've seen here. Did I read the same book as the rest of you? Read more
Published on March 6, 2004 by Karol L. Santiago

1.0 out of 5 stars Dialectical behavior therapy would be invaluable here
I agree wholeheartedly with the reviewer who stated that Nancy Aniston fits the profile of someone with borderline personality disorder (BPD). Read more
Published on January 29, 2004

1.0 out of 5 stars A waste of time and money...
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. Read more
Published on January 25, 2004

1.0 out of 5 stars Ugh...this book is nauseating.
Nancy Aniston is a melodramatic whiner who is trying to cash in on her daughter's fame - plain and simple. She is emotionally unstable and a textbook manipulator. Read more
Published on January 21, 2004

1.0 out of 5 stars See what happends when you use people
IF YOU ARE A JENNIFER ANISTON FAN DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK. HER MOTHER IS TRYING TO MAKE A PROFIT BY EXPLOITING HER DAUGHTER AGAIN!!!!PLEASE READ THE SAMPLE PAGES FIRST. Read more
Published on January 19, 2004

1.0 out of 5 stars avid reader
I think abreedlove pretty much summed up my feelings on this book. Nancy Aniston is a vain woman who seems to feel like the world revolves around only her. Read more
Published on January 17, 2004

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