Mina Kelly's memoir "Tell Me Anything" will be released in April. She opens up about her childhood and experiences with domestic violence and addiction, and how she learned to forgive and move on.

Minka Kelly was brave in her approach to her memoir, "Tell Me Everything," which will be published May 2. She did this by first tackling the most difficult part of her life.

People told her that she started with the most frightening part. "The most shameful part of my life, the one that I was most ashamed about, the one that I felt most embarrassed about, the part I kept hidden all my life and the one that people made me feel bad about."

She explained that she felt "that was exactly where I had to be bravest" and said so. She opened the book to reveal how she got her job at an adult bookstore at 17 years old, and she was able to open it.

After years of being separated from her family and friends, and her mother disappearing for weeks or months at a stretch, she decided she had to be able support herself.

Her complicated relationship with her mother, an exotic dancer, was one aspect of her traumatized childhood, which she dealt with with honesty.

Minka says that Minka and her mother, a single mother, struggled for years to overcome poverty. They even had to move into a storage unit at one point because they couldn't afford rent. Her mother would often take her to work at a Los Angeles stripclub.

Minka said that Minka would go grocery shopping at 2 AM if she had a lot of money. My childhood was chaotic and colorful, unpredictable, inconsistent, hard and sometimes difficult. The silver lining is that I learned to adapt quickly from it.

Minka stated that she wished for normalcy throughout her childhood, and that her mother was more "like other moms" than Minka. However, Minka later came to "really appreciate how special she was."

Minka stated that Minka didn't realize this until she was older and it was "maybe too late." In 2008, her mother died from cancer.

The pair had been estranged before that. Minka began to have success and her mother began asking for financial support. Kelly confronted her mother only after she was diagnosed with terminal illness.

Minka said that Minka saw Minka's daughter begin to feel shame, regret, and pain. She was already suffering from so many of these things. Minka also recalled how Minka thought Minka could immediately think, "I didn't have to do this to her." I only have to forgive her and love them. She is already broken. Is it worth putting salt on the wound?

The book also contains an interview with the actress about her first relationship. She said it led to a forced sex tape, and then an abortion. She dated Taylor Kitsch, her co-star on Friday Night Lights, later when she got her breakthrough role.

She said, "I believe that relationship taught me not to have on-set relationships." You have to experience it yourself.

She also spoke out about her reunion with Rick Dufay, ex-Aerosmith guitarist. It took her many years to forget about the grudges she held against her parents and to see them as flawed human beings like everyone else.

Minka found it extremely therapeutic to write her entire life on the page. This was especially true when Minka had to release "the parts of my life that I felt a lot ashamed about."

People reported that she hopes her book will help other mothers who are in "complicated" relationships with their mother feel less alone. She wants people to see that their circumstances do not have to define them.

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Title: Minka Kelly Talks Working Peep Shows at 17, Going to Strip Clubs with 'Exotic Dancer' Mother
Sourced From: www.toofab.com/2023/04/13/minka-kelly-working-peep-shows-17-raised-exotic-dancer-mother-memoir/
Published Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2023 11:46:05 +0000

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