It's so not a Good Thing! The daughter of Martha Stewart, Alexis, is telling all the dark secrets of growing up with the lifestyle icon in her new book. While the crafting queen may not be mommy dearest, the childhood that Alexis reveals definitely reeks of an icy upbringing with limited attention from her mom until she hit her professional stride in her 20s.
The book, "Whateverland: Learning to Live Here", portrays the domestic goddess as an absentee mom focused on growing her lifestyle empire by designing the ultimate playroom, kid friendly meals, and adorable Halloween costumes for other people's kids while her own daughter hid from trick-or-treaters and had a refrigerator full of ingredients instead of food.
"Martha does everything better! You can't win!" Alexis says of her world famous domestic diva mom. Rather than try to win, Alexis first went to work for her at Martha Stewart Omnimedia and later poked fun at her on the Fine Living network show, "Whatever, Martha".
While Alexis is the most recent grown up celebrity kid to air her parent's dirty laundry in a public tell all, she joins a legion of celebrity kids to decide to take pen to paper to vent about their childhood. Here are some other celebrity daughters and sons who have taken the tell-all route:
Christina Crawford: Nobody has mastered the celebrity parent tell all like Christina Crawford who completely trashed her mom, Joan Crawford, in "Mommie Dearest". The young actress took pen to paper after her mother completely left her out of her will following her death in 1977. The book chronicled a childhood full of physical and verbal abuse at the hands of her mother. It and the subsequent movie have become cult classics making famous the phrase "No wire hangers!"
David Cassidy: He was the "It" guy of the 70s. Nobody had it made like David Cassidy who had a hit television show and a hot recording career. All was not well at home he reveals in his autobiography, "C'Mon Get Happy: Fear and Loathing on the Partridge Family Bus" which revealed a childhood filled with self-doubt and periods of depression.
The good news is that it appears that Martha isn't holding the book against her only child. Alexis begins the books with the dedication to her mom, "in advance to my mother for not getting angry about anything written in this book." That really is a good thing!
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