But reality is that Debbie and Carrie were major Hollywood actresses, while Connie and Joely were minor performers that were trying to get a lot of mileage out of their last name. Debbie Reynolds was her ex-stepmom and ended up living next door, so Joely feels the need to make her own mother to be on an equal level of stardom with Debbie. She works overtime trying to convince us that the two were serious sisters cut from the same cloth (and that's good?). The problem is that she was the half-sister of Carrie Fisher and the book is filled with her obvious insecurity of being in Princess Leia's shadow. Yet Joely ties herself to these people and claims herself to be a 'star,' but she had a minor long-ago career and has a hard time getting work today. She demeans her dad because he only saw her four or five times in her childhood, forgot her birthday, mooched off his kids when they started making money, and even managed to misspell her sister's name in his autobiography. She goes way overboard hyping her mother as being a top celebrity when in truth Connie was a very cute 60s sidekick who few under the ago of 60 would recognize today. Oh no it's not.īeing the child of long-ago singer Eddie Fisher and B-list celebrity Connie Stevens is exaggerated by Joely into being that she was the child of one of the most famous couples in history. Then throughout the book she tells the reader how 'normal' she is and that what she does is what anyone would do. She's sexually fluid, saying the greatest love of her life was a women that she wishes she was with today yet she married a man with whom she admits to having threesomes and open relationships. She's an alcoholic who claims to have her drinking under control though she won't give it up. She's a drug addict who defends her continued use and an upbringing where drugs were just sitting out for the taking. She speaks frankly about how the loss of her sister Carrie Fisher became a source of artistic inspiration.įisher’s memoir, with never-before-seen photos, will break and warm your heart. Throughout, she celebrates the anomaly of a two-decade marriage in the entertainment industry, and the joys and challenges of parenting five children, while dishing on what it takes to survive and thrive in the unrelenting glow of celebrity. She speaks frankly about the realities of Hollywood-the fame and fortune, the constant scrutiny. In Growing Up Fisher, she recalls the beautifully bizarre twist of fate by which she spent a good part of her childhood next door to Debbie Reynolds. Now, Joely shares her unconventional coming of age and stories of the family members and co-stars dearest to her heart, while stripping bare her own misadventures.

The product of world-famous crooner Eddie Fisher and ’60s sex kitten Connie Stevens, she struggled with her own identity and place in the world on the way to a decades-long career as an acclaimed actress, singer, and director. Growing up in an iconic Hollywood Dynasty, Joely Fisher knew a show business career was her destiny. She speaks frankly about how the loss of her sister Carrie Fisher became a source of artistic inspiration.įisher's memoir, with never-before-seen photos, will break and warm your heart.Actress, director, entertainer Joely Fisher invites readers backstage, into the intimate world of her career and family with this touching, down-to-earth memoir filled with incredible, candid stories about her life, her famous parents, and how the loss of her unlikely hero, sister Carrie Fisher, ignited the writer in her. The product of world-famous crooner Eddie Fisher and '60s sex kitten Connie Stevens, she struggled with her own identity and place in the world on the way to a decades-long career as an acclaimed actress, singer, and director. Actress, director, entertainer Joely Fisher's touching, down-to-earth memoir filled with incredible, candid stories about her life, her famous parents, and how the loss of her unlikely hero, sister Carrie Fisher, ignited the writer in her.

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