Jennette McCurdy

Jennette McCurdy opens up to Teen Vogue in an interview about grief, her mom's abuse, and her friendships with Ariana Grande and Miranda Cosgrove.

After undergoing six years of therapy to unpack the impact that her late mother has had on her life, McCurdy, now 30, is ready to tell her story on her own terms. Born and raised in Southern California in a poor, Mormon family, Jennette McCurdy was just six years old when Debra, who had dreamed of becoming an actor herself, projected her own unrealized aspirations onto her only daughter. “I feel strongly that anybody who has experienced abuse from a parental figure will know what I’m talking about.”

Nickelodeon is offering me three hundred thousand dollars in hush money to not talk publicly about my experience on the show?" the actor writes in her new ...

“My body is saying no, I don't want this,” she details. She continues: “My shoulders do have a lot of knots in them, but I don’t want The Creator to be the one rubbing them out. Unflinching. My body is rejecting my mind,” she writes. Jennette claims that her former boss, whom she doesn’t name, got in trouble with the network for “accusations of his emotional abuse.” Moreover, Jennette recalls feeling uneasy when “The Creator” once gave her a shoulder massage without asking her. So much so, in fact, that when Jennette — unhappily — landed her huge role on Nickelodeon’s iCarly at the age of 15, Debra was thrilled.

Centered around the abuse McCurdy suffered from her mother, and the treatment of child stars at Nickelodeon, the actress' new book soars to the top of the ...

At Nickelodeon, “The Creator” (who is likely iCarly’s creator and producer, Dan Schneider) pressured McCurdy to wear bikinis, drink alcohol before she was of legal drinking age, and massaged her without consent. “So I have to turn down movies while Ariana’s off whistle-toning at the Billboard Music Awards? Fuck. This,” writes McCurdy. Jennette McCurdy’s new memoir is a barrage of bombshells, beginning with its title: I’m Glad My Mom Died. And people are taking notice, as the book soared to #4 on Amazon’s best-seller charts (and #2 in memoirs), before the physical copy sold out on Amazon altogether.

Grande's pop star career started taking off during the filming of the show, which only ran for a single season on Nickelodeon. McCurdy writes that she grew to ...

“That was the moment I broke,” McCurdy writes. “I’m Glad My Mom Died” is now available for purchase and has already topped the Amazon bestseller list. McCurdy adds that from that moment on “I didn’t like her. McCurdy continues, “Ariana is at the stage in her career where she’s popping up on every 30 Under 30 list that exists. “So I have to turn down movies while Ariana’s off whistle-toning at the Billboard Music Awards? Fuck. This.” “The week where I was told Ariana would not be here at all, and that they would write around her absence this episode by having her character be locked in a box.

Nickelodeon star Jennette McCurdy discusses her controversial relationship with co-star Ariana Grande and Tom Hanks even came up.

In fact, the star revealed the true feelings she had about her Sam and Cat co-star Ariana Grande during the filming of the show. While filming Sam and Cat, Ariana Grande was becoming an increasingly famous pop star. Former Nickelodeon star Jennette McCurdy has been opening up about myriad topics in recent weeks as part of press for her memoir I’m Glad My Mom Died, but the latest may be a doozy for Nickelodeon fans.

'I'm Glad My Mom Died' includes claims of exploitation, anorexia, co-star feuds, and more.

Jennette McCurdy sat down for an interview on Wednesday (August 10) all about her new memoir and working relationship with Ariana Grande.

“Sure,” the former iCarly star responded with a chuckle. So I made that mistake repeatedly. “You literally wrote, ‘I frequently made the mistake of comparing my career to Ariana’s,'” host Juju Chang read directly from McCurdy’s book.

Jennette McCurdy recalled trying on a bikini at a wardrobe fitting for "iCarly" and feeling embarrassed. In her memoir, McCurdy said that she hated "so much of ...

"I look at myself in the dressing room mirror." But our wardrobe designer said that The Creator explicitly asked for bikinis, and so she had to at least have me try on one or two of them so he had the option." "I hate this," McCurdy wrote in her memoir." "I step out," she wrote." I want to look like a child." "I'm standing behind the curtain in the dressing room of the soundstage that we shoot the show on," McCurdy recalled in her memoir.

Ahead of the release of her memoir, "I'm Glad My Mom Died," McCurdy reflected on her yearslong friendship with Cosgrove, with whom she starred on the ...

Cosgrove tried to convince McCurdy to join her in the "iCarly" reboot "With Miranda, it's always been so easy," she writes. I just love her so much."

In "I'm Glad My Mom Died," McCurdy says her mom taught her anorexic behaviors like calorie restriction and weekly weigh-ins. She later became bulimic.

When her mother died, McCurdy said she developed bulimia and couldn't stop bingeing and purging. She also wrote that if Debra were still alive, she believes she'd support the bulimia McCurdy developed following her death. Debra would also cry while holding McCurdy and tell her she wanted her to stay physically small and young. This led a young McCurdy to think, "If I start to grow up, Mom won't love me as much," and feel guilty at every sign of normal growth, like developing breasts and getting taller. Jennette McCurdy, the award-winning actress known for her role as Sam in Nickelodeon's "iCarly," says her mother taught her how to be anorexic starting at age 11. "She was telling her, 'In order for you to be special to me, you have to perform in the right way.

Jennette McCurdy, who has written memoir titled 'Im Glad My Mom Died", wants her ex-co-star Ariana Grande to read it. In it, she has revealed her bad ...

It broke her and she couldn’t take it anymore. The "iClary" star was applauded for being a good sport, but the entire incident made her resent that. She wished to leave the entertainment industry post her mother’s death. The actor reveals that she had a complicated relationship with her mother. Ariana Grandeto read her new memoir, 'I’m Glad My Mom Died'. The title of her memoir ‘I’m Glad My Mom Died" comes off a little strong, while Jennette mentions that she is genuinely glad. Jennette mentions that growing up in the public eye was quite difficult as one’s reality becomes invalidated and goes unacknowledged.

This article discusses sensitive topics such as child abuse and eating disorders. Jennette McCurdy was an omnipresent figure in my childhood. At school, my ...

I think that it was important to my growth and also to my identity to step away from it for a while, and at the time I thought permanently. Let me just say first and foremost, beyond all of the headlines, I think I wrote a great book and I hope people focus on that aspect of it. Although, now it is not lost on me the irony that my character loved eating so much and I was struggling with eating disorders. I completely stepped away from acting when I was 24, which I talk about in the book and why that was so important to me at the time for it to be a very definitive action. I wanted to make sure that I didn't go that far, so I didn't wanna be jumping in the air, flinging confetti like, “Haha, I'm glad my mom died,” because that's frankly just untruthful to my experience. I knew I wanted to be holding an urn with confetti coming out, because to me that's finding the celebration in the trauma, […] but on top of that, my expression was really important because […] this is where skirting the line between dark humor being flippant comes in. And yes, it was intentional that my mom's favorite color was pink, so I wanted there to be pink on it. So it's important for me to find the story and the entertainment in my life, as opposed to just oversharing. Therapy for me is my place for oversharing, and I think that's an important part of it. I think writing about all my childhood, adolescent experiences from my point of view now would do a disservice to who I was at the time. I expected to get a lot of pushback on just my voice, which is that I try to ignite the more tragic life events that I've experienced with humor and levity. “Child stardom is a trap,” McCurdy declares in her debut book, I’m Glad My Mom Died. The coming-of-age memoir recounts her nonconsensual journey of becoming a child actor, and the eating disorders and alcohol dependency that followed.

Jennette McCurdy's fellow Nickelodeon alum Josh Peck praised her after she released her memoir I'm Glad My Mom Died on Aug. 9.

And also cases where they did — they knew exactly what they were doing." There were cases where people had the best intentions and maybe didn't know what they were doing. Nobody has a perfect life."

The Biggest Bombshells from Jennette McCurdy's Memoir, 'I'm Glad My Mom Died'. Here are the major revelations revealed in the former Nickelodeon star's recently ...

When her mother was on her death bed with a predicted 48 hours to live, Jennette whispered in her ear news she thought would revive her. "This feels to me like hush money," McCurdy recalls of her reaction, noting that she turned the offer down immediately. Shortly after the show wrapped, reports circulated that it ended because Jennette was "upset" her costar was getting paid more, she writes. She feared being viewed as a "sexual being," she says. Jennette reveals she has kept a solid friendship with iCarly costar Cosgrove, even long after the series wrapped in 2012. Jennette said she was forced into the life Debra wished she could've had; Jennette recalls her mom asking, "You want to be Mommy's little actress?" Jennette details numerous instances where she felt " exploited" as a teen actor both on and off set. She also noted that her mother gave her showers, too, in addition to — and at the same time as — her brother Scottie, who was almost 16. Jennette points to her mom as the root of her eating disorder and believes Debra faced one herself. Doing everything to make her mom happy, she turned to calorie restriction (per Debra's suggestion). "Each Sunday, she weighs me and measures my thighs with a measuring tape. Jennette recalls her mom's reaction in her memoir: "'Don't be silly, you love acting. Her mother was undergoing challenges of her own at the same time; when Jennette was 2 years old, Debra was diagnosed with breast cancer.