Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up

BEST SELLER IN THE NEW YORK TIMES Selma Blair portrays several Ingenues in Cruel Intentions. In Legally Blonde, the preppy ice queen. Karl Lagerfeld's muses. Support the community of people with multiple sclerosis. But Selma was most renowned for being a nasty baby before all of that. Blair relates the engrossing tale of growing up and discovering her truth in a book that is as brilliantly amusing as it is heartbreaking."Blair is a rebel, an artist, and it turns a writer." —Glennon Doyle, Together Rising founder and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller UntamedSelma Blair Beitner's initial self-stories were that she was a cruel, cruel child. At seven years old, Selma got drunk on Passover wine and spent years living up to her terrible reputation of biting her sisters, lying on the spur of the moment, and acting dramatic to be the center of attention. Her hair was so fluffy that it had to be rubbed to make room for her forehead.Selma managed to overcome her bouts of sadness and the conviction that a vast mystery was at the core of her existence, even though she went on to become a well-known Hollywood actress and model. She often had a feeling like to electric shocks, as if her arms were on fire, and she drank in secret to get away from it.In this exquisite and, sometimes, devastating autobiography, Selma exposes her alcoholism, her love for her sophisticated and multifaceted mother, and the times she toyed with the idea of passing away. There's violent brutality, intense love, genuine friendship, the gift of parenthood, and, in the end, a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis that comes as a startling relief.Mean Baby by Selma Blair is an incredibly poignant memoir and a remarkable work of literature, written in a voice that is ferociously brilliant, incredibly unique, and full of hard-won lessons.