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我妈走后，我终于成了一个正常人
(us) Janet Mccurdy
How to explain all this? I hate her, I want to escape from her, I think I have been waiting for this day. But, I miss her too. This book is a memoir by American child star Janet McCurdy. It tells the story of a mother-daughter relationship where maternal love is actually exploitation. Janet's mother had longed to be an actress since she was a child, but it didn't come true, so she pinned her dream on her daughter. Janet was taken to auditions by her mother from the age of 6; she began to control her calories at the age of 11 under her mother's guidance; she also had to undergo examinations from her mother at the age of 17... On the surface, she was a starlet surrounded by flashing lights, cheers and suitors, but secretly, anxiety, shame, disease, and self-loathing were eating away at her body and mind. Adhering to the life philosophy of "My goal in life is to make my mother happy," Janet carefully maintained the close bond with her mother and told herself that all this was out of her mother's love. When her mother's death struck, Janet's meaning in life fell apart, and it also made her re-examine the mother-daughter relationship. Is this love or abuse? Is it a bond or a yoke? And how to cure the mental illness, bulimia, and anorexia caused by the child star experience and the death of his mother?
How to explain all this? I hate her, I want to escape from her, I think I have been waiting for this day. But, I miss her too. This book is a memoir by American child star Janet McCurdy. It tells the story of a mother-daughter relationship where maternal love is actually exploitation. Janet's mother had longed to be an actress since she was a child, but it didn't come true, so she pinned her dream on her daughter. Janet was taken to auditions by her mother from the age of 6; she began to control her calories at the age of 11 under her mother's guidance; she also had to undergo examinations from her mother at the age of 17... On the surface, she was a starlet surrounded by flashing lights, cheers and suitors, but secretly, anxiety, shame, disease, and self-loathing were eating away at her body and mind. Adhering to the life philosophy of "My goal in life is to make my mother happy," Janet carefully maintained the close bond with her mother and told herself that all this was out of her mother's love. When her mother's death struck, Janet's meaning in life fell apart, and it also made her re-examine the mother-daughter relationship. Is this love or abuse? Is it a bond or a yoke? And how to cure the mental illness, bulimia, and anorexia caused by the child star experience and the death of his mother?