Once Upon a Trainwreck
The Fall and Rise of a Child Star
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Once Upon a Trainwreck
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For a generation of kids, Christy Carlson Romano was their TV big sister. At her peak, she was sixteen years old and starring in two major television shows, Even Stevens and Kim Possible, and an original movie, Cadet Kelly. She was Disney’s smart, serious girl next door, a role model who had it all together. But in reality, she was anything but.
Christy was pushed into show business while still in elementary school. She wanted to be a good girl: to help her family and to make her parents happy. From indie movie gigs and Broadway performances in New York to television shoots in Hollywood, Christy’s existence was dually marked by brilliance and turmoil: bright-eyed success on the stage and emotional and financial strife behind the scenes. Christy faced a rollercoaster of bullying, exploitation, and the relentless pursuit of perfection personally and professionally. And as she got older, her people pleasing tendencies took a darker turn: she dated controlling men, started partying in to order fit in, descended into addiction, and was emotionally blackmailed into giving thousands of dollars to a manipulative psychic.
But after hitting rock bottom in an FBI office, Christy pulls her life back together, reparenting herself to become more resilient than ever.
This is more than a celebrity memoir; it’s an inspiring account of raising oneself, of finding inner strength and perseverance. Punctuated by letters from Christy to her two young daughters, Once Upon a Trainwreck is a propulsive and gripping testament to survival, self-discovery, and the pursuit of an authentic life.
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