Jenette McCurdy

It's just you have to keep moms on a pedestal and we all have to have the same experience.

And that just wasn't mine.

So it felt even more important to express it in the book.

No, no.

So my mom always wanted to be an actress.

Her dream was to be famous.

And she would recount sort of these tales of how her parents wouldn't let her.

She would camp out in front of Donny Osmond's house.

bring him like posters.

Chris Knight, who played Peter Brady in the Brady Bunch, she swore like, oh, they had a relationship.

I think that was not true.

Chris Knight, if you're watching, please let me know if my mom actually had a relationship with you.

But so she was always fascinated with kind of Hollywood and the aura and the romance as she saw it.

And so she put me in acting when I was six to kind of give, I think, in my eyes, it was to live vicariously through me and to fulfill her dream and what she had always wanted.

Yeah.

I think it's way more common than anyone would care to admit.

I know just from my experience of going into auditions countless times, I'd have like a 103 fever.

My mom would be having me chug Gatorade.

I'd be walking into like pretend to be a homeless child, which is just already so kind of messed up as it is.

And there's these, you know, dozens of other girls lined up to also try and be this homeless child.