Inside Out (Disney/Pixar Inside Out) (Little Golden Book)

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a b c d e f g Cho, Diane J. (September 26, 2019). "Every Bombshell Confession from Demi Moore's Memoir, 'Inside Out' ". People . Retrieved October 25, 2019. For the most part I think she did open up about her life and to me it didn't feel like she was doing so to assign blame or anything. In my opinion she didn't demonize her ex-husbands but instead showed some of the good and bad parts of their time spent together. Now I do think though she was fairly vague about some of the things that might have led to her daughters and Bruce not speaking to her for a few years. That's really the only instance in which I felt there was more to the story that she wasn't willing to share. I read this book and I think I will re-read parts. What is most gripping are the chapters on childhood and young adulthood: being a misfit; growing up with alcohol and pill-addicted parents; always on shaky ground; never popular; getting sober; switching addictions to food and other people. This happened again and again, propelling the family from place to place. Throughout their childhood, Demi and Morgan attended at least two new schools a year, and it was often more than that. When the family periodically returned to Roswell, "It felt like coming home." Survivor is a good word to describe Demi. She had a pretty messed up childhood, has been thru 3 divorces, has experienced both box office successes and disappointments, has had periods of estrangement from different family members, and battled addiction. And yet, she's still standing. She seems to be in a pretty good place right now and I would imagine writing this memoir proved to be a cathartic experience.

While Demi was still a young teenager, however, she was driven to self-destructive behavior, like partying, hanging out with older boys, and giving in to their sexual demands. Thus Demi succumbed when her mother pimped her out to a middle-aged restaurateur named Val Doumas. Val was waiting inside the apartment when 15-year-old Demi got home from school - having received a key from Ginny - and just took it for granted the teenager would have sex with him. I didn't make it a mission to read her memoir, but I borrowed the audiobook from the library and after listening to it, I am very happy I did. We get to learn about her difficult childhood and teenage years, and how her complicated relationship with her mother shaped Demi into the insecure woman that learned from a very young age to hide her troubles behind a dazzling smile. Her difficult early years also taught her independence and strong, and professional work ethic. One thing is for sure, every single accomplishment in her life, Demi has earned. None of her three beloved daughters are speaking to her. She has two divorces under her belt. Her health is playing up. It seems that everything and everyone is conspiring against her, and she wonders why she struggled so hard to end up somewhere which was so far removed from where she wanted to be in her life. I loved it. Without any doubt, I put it right next to Open, Agassi's memoir, because I appreciated the honesty, the vulnerability, the daring of telling everything no matter what it would happen afterwards.

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And her conclusion, that she decided it was time for HER to tell her story, not the tabloids, not her mother, not the so-called friends around, it was exactly what I think every celebrity should do. The Epilogue is particularly touching. I get the sense that Demi is finally in a comfortable space. Both in her body and in her place in the world. Just as the book opens with her questioning her life, the ending has her pondering and accepting it. The good, the bad, the highs and lows. The people she has loved and the people she is yet to love. I’ve never been a fan of movie, or TV stars, in the same way I am with musicians or authors. I liked many of the movies Demi starred in- Ghost being my very favorite of all her roles. I think she is a good actress, but I wouldn’t call myself a fan, necessarily.

Demi writes a good deal about her relationship with Ashton: the early euphoria; their decision to wed; a miscarriage when Demi was almost six months pregnant; their attempts to conceive again, including fertility treatments and IVF; incorporating threesomes into their sex life; and their eventual divorce. I listened to the audiobook, which I HIGHLY recommend, as Demi does a stellar job reading it in her amazing voice. The book is particularly well written for a celebrity memoir, as Demi worked with the talented Ariel Schrag, a star in her own right. In all, a favorite of the many celebrity memoirs I’ve read lately. Demi admits to having kidney disease, alcohol, cocaine and prescription drug abuse, undergoing treatment for same, and a sexual assault at the young age of 15. You won't believe how that came about. After Demi made GI Jane, she learned that her mother was dying from lung cancer and a brain tumor. Demi went to stay with her mom in Farmington, New Mexico, and came to 'an understanding' with Ginny before she died. During this time, Bruce and Demi ended their union, though they continued to co-parent successfully. To provide a stable home for her girls, Demi decided to put her career on hold and become a full-time mom. Demi settled into her home in Idaho, took care of her daughters, and pledged not to use alcohol, drugs, or food to get through her divorce.I think this is one of my favorite memoirs and I’m glad I made the choice to listen to the audiobook. I loved that it was narrated by Demi. Adolescent Demi became interested in acting when she met 17-year-old actress Nastassja Kinski at an apartment complex in California. German-born Nastassja had trouble with written English, and Demi helped her read her scripts. Demi admired Nastassja's beauty, talent and success, and thought of her as a role model. The truth and the motives are constantly distorted, and we very rarely hear both sides of the story, we rarely are presented with all the facts, situations, and emotions involved.

She was married to actor Ashton Kutcher before divorcing in 2013. She writes about having two threesomes with Kutcher that left her with feelings of shame. "Because we had brought in a third party into our relationship, Ashton said, that blurred the lines and, to some extent, justified what he's done," Moore writes about Kutcher cheating on her. Moore recalls a time when Kutcher told her that "I don't know if alcoholism is a real thing." [18] She also recalls a time she was drinking with Kutcher and she passed out in a hot tub in Mexico. "Ashton had encouraged me to go in this direction. When I went too far, though, he let me know how he felt by showing a picture he'd taken of me resting my head on the toilet the night before. It seemed like a good-natured joke at the time. But it was really just shaming," she writes. Two years into her marriage to Kutcher, Moore revealed that she became pregnant at 42 and then lost her child almost six months into the pregnancy. [16] After the couple divorced in 2013, Moore began abusing Vicodin and alcohol. During that time, her three daughters stopped speaking to her, and her former husband and friend, Bruce Willis, grew distant as well. This was a deeply personal look at Demi’s life and career. A childhood filled with trauma leading to insecurities and abandonment issues. Even as her career grew she battled issues like addiction and low self-esteem.During her second pregnancy, big-bellied Demi posed for a nude cover photo for Vanity Fair magazine - a picture she thought was artistic and beautiful. The photo was roundly excoriated, however, and the scathing article that went with it made things even worse. Demi writes, "I was portrayed as selfish, egotistical, and pampered, and that being Mrs. Bruce Willis had gone to my head, swelling it unmercifully." There were assertions that Demi was catered to on the set of The Butcher's Wife (where the interview occurred) and that she was a prima donna surrounded by sycophants. Demi reports, "The article had a subtle negative impact on my career." Demi felt proud of her nude-pregnancy photo on Vanity Fair...( but sounded as if she was justifying the photo)....she said it was a brave-bold photo....especially from somebody who struggled with body image as much as she did.