I read Tori's first book SToritelling from cover to cover last spring. Now she's got a new book out called Mommywood. She came to speak at the LATimes Festival of Books earlier today. BeccaKlaus and Liz came with me to see her. Tori's tiny - like tall and skinny, and I liked her a lot. She had on glasses, a nice cardigan, and jeans. She seemed likeable, thoroughly therapied-ized (like she'd spent many years in therapy), and trying really hard to do the right thing for her family and kids as well as make enough money to support them. She also knew that her career choice - acting and entertainment - put her in the public eye and that was something she had to negotiate.
I liked that she admitted that she can't provide for her kids in the lavish way that her parents had. Not that is a bad thing. They still have a roof over their heads. (And it's a house in Encino, in a nice school district.) But lets' face it - her parents are rich and yet she still has a non-functional relationship with her mother. Money can't buy you everything.
It's worth noting that Tori Spelling and her people do a great job as presenting her as likeable and modest. She's the complete opposite of Kate Gosselin, that's for sure! Putting her kids on TV and talking about them in books... it's hard to say what the long-term effects of that will be on her kids. Hopefully things will work out.
There were definitely some nutjobs who came up to ask Tori questions. I was almost convinced that the people who spoke up at today's thing were even crazier than some of the regulars at Jody Litvak's subway meetings.
I enjoyed myself and I enjoyed having Tori come to UCLA. Thanks for coming, Tori!
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