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On the surface, Mia Tyler led a seemingly perfect life. She was a world-renowned plus-size model and the daughter of Aerosmith's Steven Tyler and seventies It girl Cyrinda Foxe. But growing up under the shadow of celebrity wasn't as glamorous as it's cracked up to be. From a poverty-stricken childhood in New Hampshire to running with troubled rich kids on Manhattan's Upper East Side, she has an incredible story to tell.
In Creating Myself, Mia shares scintillating details about her rock-and-roll family, as well as battling her own personal demons: dumping her mother's cocaine vial down the toilet at just eight years old, running around backstage at her father's concerts (including the one where she first met her sister, Liv), and attempting to distract herself from her pain through drug addiction and self-mutilation. Yet this memoir is ultimately a tale of redemption. Mia learns that in order to truly grow up, she must forgive both herself and those who hurt her, give up the quest for perfection, and acknowledge that she is still a work in progress.
Creating Myself is raw and inspirational, the tale of a hell-and-back journey from the depths of depression and addiction to triumphant self-discovery.
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By Helena J. Hague-campbell (Vermont)
I have mixed feelings about this book. I think it's a great read. It's very intersting and captivating while offering a very candid look at Mia's life. I definitely think it has the potential to positively influence readers in how they live their lives. The mixture of feelings is basically referring to the fact that Mia is brutally honest. While I appreciated her tell most (not all) tale others, as noted by these reviews do not. I think she is incredibly brave to write this book. I also think it's impossible for any reader to say that she complains too much about her mother when they clearly were not around to witness what I would describe as a trainwreck of a parent. Therefore, I would say my review of the book is that it is compelling and honest and I love it.
By Cheese (New York)
I agree with the previous reviewer who mentioned how harsh Mia was on her mother, while giving her father a pretty broad pass. Why couldn't she live with him? She never asked why he could go on to have a new family and not want her around? Mia was really angry about her mother's book trashing her father for money, yet she turns around and does the same thing to her mother. There are so many inconsistencies in this book. For example, she bristles when her mother suggests that she use the last name Tyler instead of her birth name of Tallarico in order to get ahead, yet she uses Tyler when writing this book. Also, although she claims that she didn't read her mother's book, she goes into some detail about it's content. She paints her as an uninvolved, unconcerned mother, but describes many instances where her mother bailed her out of school trouble. She complains that her mother didn't make anything of her life, yet her big claim to fame at the ripe old age of 30 is that she spends alot of time on Myspace. Mia barely made it through high school but somehow feels that she is qualified to me an amateur therapist. Perhaps this book is written a bit prematurely. Mia describes drinking and taking pills after leaving rehab, and we never really know if she has kicked her demons.
By Grateful Reader (CA USA)
I love books that inspire others to overcome life's trials and believe that life can hold unlimited possibilities for meaning, fulfillment, and happiness. It seems clear that Mia's goal in writing this book is to help struggling girls and young women. Her honest and authentic story encourages strength and perseverance in readers who may be searching for understanding and hope. A reader cannot help but to be encouraged to become an authentic individual and to create her own destiny. Mia's famous father and her own modeling career provide a platform for her to get her message out to those who may need a thoughtful message of overcoming. Mia's insight is revealed in her realization that she needed to make peace with her relationship with her mother. I imagine many people will be encouraged to put in the time and effort to resolve differences, hurts, and misunderstandings in their own fundamentally important relationships because of Mia's example. It takes courage to reveal intimate details of one's life. I wish Mia continued growth and happiness. Other inspirational books: Crossbearer: A Memoir of Faith, Five Wishes: How Answering One Simple Question Can Make Your Dreams Come True Five Wishes, and [[ASIN:097974590X THE 3:00 PM SECRET: Live Slim and Strong, Live Your Dreams]]
By lewis jackman (Sleepy Lagoon)
Have to agree with previous reviewer who astutely points out that title/premise of the book is completely misleading. As presented here, Tyler may have had many problems--but, at least by her own admission, body image issues were not among them.
And as unfortunate as her other challenges were (being the child of fast lane druggie music scenesters could not have been helped things), her "it's all behind me" attitude, while admirable, seems a mite premature, considering the repetitive nature of her previous substance abuse troubles. . . and the fact that she's not yet 30.
Still, an interesting read for Aerosmith/Cyrinda Foxe/Seventies pop culture fans, most of whom will come away glad that they were raised far from the glam rock limelight.
By TawnTawn (Texas)
I commend Ms. Tallarico for writing her memoirs. I'm sure it wasn't easy. But what I noted was her extreme impatience and lack of compassion for her mother, whom she lived with...but acceptance and gratefulness for her father, Steven Tyler. She criticizes her mother for not "getting it together" after her father dumps them off the boonies for several years, supposedly due to lack of funds...then finally divorces her when he wants to marry someone else. Mia asked repeatedly to go live with her father...but nope, that wasn't a good idea. However he remarries and has two more children...and it's okay for them (and his new wife!) to live with him. Mia never mentions whether she felt the injustice of this, but she mentions the injustice of plenty of other things that happened when she was child. Despite her mother's pleading to her husband, there wasn't much money in the household, or maybe it was spent for drugs...there was something very out of character there for her mom, this glamour girl who thrived on attention, to stay stuck in the woods for years without much contact with anyone. Why would she put up with that? Mia doesn't delve her mom's psyche, though it would have been interesting.
Once she's divorced her mom gets it together enough to move back to New York, then Mia begins to run wild. Drugs, alcohol depression, cutting herself...her dad helps out from a distance or sends someone else to do it, and Mia seems impressed by this. She acknowledges she would have liked her dad around more while growing up - but he had an excuse, he was on drugs, touring, or in rehab...like a lot of children with divorced parents, the one who isn't there is sort of up on a pedestal. She gives the impression that it would have been so much better to live with her dad on a day-to-day basis than the hell that was living with her mom...I don't know. As she keeps saying, "be careful what you wish for."
The memoir seems spotty in her younger years. I also find it a bit difficult to believe that every day she rode her bike into town to get the bus for school, climbing out her window because there was so much snow she couldn't get out the front door. She mentions her mom taking her to school and stopping at Burger King on the way. They're going through the drive-thru and her mom says don't roll down the window, I'm going to open the door. Her mom says if you roll down the window, it's so cold that it will break...well, if her mom is in the driver's seat, you would think Mia would be in the passenger seat (she doesn't mention otherwise) so her mom would be the one to order...nope, Mia has decided she wants to order and rolls down the window (hers, you would think, or else she would have had to reach across her mom's lap and the steering wheel), and it breaks. So how was she planning to order breakfast out of the opposite window? Her mom also picks her up at school in a decrepit $200.00 station wagon, which embarrasses Mia. Anyway, I didn't know what to believe - riding her bike to the bus every day, or that her mom drove her to school. She's vague. Mia also said that her mother had flowers in her hair at her wedding. But in the photo section, a picture of Cyrinda and Steven getting married shows: no flowers in her hair.
Once married to Dave Buckner (no photo of him!)and living in California, she thinks she might be pregnant (they have not used bc for six months). However, she cannot get an appointment with a female doctor at Kaiser for four months. The alternative is to see a "clinician" which she doesn't want to do. She knows no doctor. Mia has tons of friends, but doesn't call on anyone for advice. INSTEAD, she flies to NY to see her sister Liv, who gets her in to see her gynecologist. Her pregnancy test is negative. She could have easily bought one of those herself in CA. She flew across the country to take a pregnancy test. Back in CA, she starts to bleed, calls a doctor (male) referred to her by the NY doctor, who tells her she probably had a miscarriage.
Mia created a myspace page, and is inundated with mail from women who have or used to have low self-esteem. She wants to help other people, with her story, which is good. However, as much as she has been through, that she shouldn't have had to go through, she's still a little naive when it comes to relationships. Substance abuse tends to delay maturity. And despite the title regarding beauty and sizes, I didn't see any mention of her hating her body or obsessing over food. So that's a little misleading for those who may want to read her journey through that jungle.
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