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Author: Tori Spelling
Publisher: Simon Spotlight
Category: Book

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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 175 reviews
Sales Rank: 15

Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Simon Spotlight Entertainment Hardcover Ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.4 x 1.2

ISBN: 1416950737
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.45028092
EAN: 9781416950738
ASIN: 1416950737

Publication Date: March 11, 2008
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  • Kindle Edition - sTORI Telling
  • Paperback - sTORI Telling

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Book Description
She was television's most famous virgin--and, as Aaron Spelling's daughter, arguably its most famous case of nepotism. Portraying Donna Martin on Beverly Hills, 90210, Tori Spelling became one of the most recognizable young actresses of her generation, with a not-so-private personal life every bit as fascinating as her character's exploits. Yet years later the name Tori Spelling too often closed--and sometimes slammed--the same doors it had opened.

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.



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A Bonus Story and Family Photo from Tori Spelling

The Manor
People are always asking about my parents' mansion, which they called the "Manor," but I don't really spend much time talking about it in sTORI Telling because I didn't grow up there. After demolishing Bing Crosby's former estate in Holmby Hills, a fancy neighborhood in west L.A., they spent six years building the Manor. It's about 46,000 square feet (slightly over an acre) and has 123 rooms. Not that I counted or measured. I got those figures from the press, just like everyone else.

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





Customer Reviews:   Read 170 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars Absolutely loved it!   August 22, 2008
I love how she's open and honest with what happened in her life, good and bad.


5 out of 5 stars Helps fill in the gaps from reality show   August 22, 2008
I have watched both seasons of her reality show. At times, I felt a little lost. This book bridges the gap between the tabloids and her reality show. Now that she set a background through the use of her book, her show makes complete sense to me. This book was very easy to read, and I sympathize with her ups and downs. I look forward to reading another book she writes.


5 out of 5 stars I REALLY ENJOYED!   August 21, 2008

I must say that I really enjoyed this book. It really gives a perspective on the other side of things. I wish the family well!



1 out of 5 stars Watch the E True Hollywood story for free!!!!   August 21, 2008
 1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Tori tries to come off as a regular girl like you and me crying about how she was jipped by getting a BMW for her 16th Bday instead of the VW rabbit she wanted- boo hoo! I wasn't buying the poor little rich girl routine what made it worse about how she trashes her mom and then gets upset about not having a relationship with her- I am no shrink but writing a tell all book about your mom is not the way to bridge the gap. She doesn't even dish any details about Dean and what happened with his ex or how he abandoned his adopted baby (he is no longer financially responsible for her) to be with Tori- that's why I bought the book for some juice on the affair!!! You can save yourself the $$$ and just watch the E True Hollywood story and get the same dirt on Tori- but for free. I have come to be disgusted with how she sells everything in her life and certainly won't buy her book on being a mom since she pays someone to do that for her too.


4 out of 5 stars TORI IS GENUINE   August 21, 2008
Tori has grown on me since watching all her TV reality shows, starting with the bed and breakfast series. TorI Spelling is as open and unassuming as one can get. Her sweetness is no doubt genuine. This book would have meant much more if I hadn't read so much of it online before I ordered it. The book validates to this grandmother just how Tori's heart and spirit is crying out for the love and closeness of her mother and the warmth of a close family. To surround herself with someone as raunchy as her best friend Suzanne, is heartbreaking; she is far above the likes of someone of that caliber. How her mother, where Tori obviously gained her beauty, can allow this little lady to be estranged is sad indeed. Who is the mother, and supposedly the adult, here? Fortunately, Dean appears genuine as well and makes up the other half of this precious couple. If you watched the series of her giving birth to her baby girl, she was crying and so shakingly scared, begging Dean to assure her she'd be alright, where was her mother to give her that assurance? Yes, Tori is longing for her mother's love. I wish I could just hug her and protect her; she's grown into my heart. This book is pure innocence, which seems to be the only way Tori knows to be.


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