Nearly five years ago, before mortgages and babies and all that comes with them, like Elizabeth Gilbert and her big screen counterpart Julia Roberts, I had an Eat Pray Love experience of my very own.

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Tori Spelling’s Mommy Issues
TheDailyBeast.com
April 2009
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You’ve commented that Jessica Alba, who had her daughter Honor Marie two days before you had Stella, was back in her pre-baby body two weeks after giving birth, while you could barely move. Did you feel pressure after your pregnancy ended to be physically perfect?
When I wrote Mommywood I was still losing my baby weight, so when I talked about the pressure, yes, it was very much there. It took [Jessica Alba] two weeks to get back to her pre-baby …

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Tori Spelling’s Mommy Issues
TheDailyBeast.com
April 2009
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With a new memoir on parenting, the TV scion turned reality star dishes on her feud with her mother, Candy, her kids’ love of paparazzi, and her return to 90210.
Tori Spelling has survived a lot longer than most people thought she would. After a decade on her father’s young-adult juggernaut, Beverly Hills, 90210, she, like the rest of the teen-idol cast, spent a decade in relative oblivion. But then something changed—not in Tori, but in pop culture. TV veered sharply into high-drama, …

TweetIn which our heroine, Tori Spelling, balances raising two kids under two, a reality show, a clothing line and a triumphant return to her old zip code.
This week I interviewed Hollywood scion Tori Spelling for The Daily Beast. Spelling — best known as Donna Martin from Beverly Hills, 90210
– has managed to make a solid career for herself despite making a
tabloid splash three years ago when then then-married had a
home-wrecking affair with equally- married TV movie costar Dean
McDermott.
Despite the fallout, she and Dean wed, created a hit reality …

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America’s Dirtiest Dancer
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March 2009
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Was doing Dancing difficult for you physically?
It was. I had gained about 30 pounds, and most of it was in my stomach. It made it really hard to dance. I couldn’t even imagine hopping, and to dance, you have to at least be able to hop. I’ve lost half of the weight now, but I sure didn’t lose it when I was on the show. It was wonderful, but it was hard. When you’re on the show, that’s your life. Three hours a …

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America’s Dirtiest Dancer
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March 2009
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Cloris Leachman could fill a memoir with tales of seducing men half her age, watching Marilyn grind with Robert Kennedy and her “epic” attraction to Gene Hackman. So that’s just what she did.
Cloris Leachman was an overweight octogenarian who wanted to compete on the endurance-testing reality show, Dancing With the Stars. “They said I was too old. They’re denying it now, so I don’t know what to think,” she says. “Maybe they just didn’t like me?”
If that’s the case, audiences disagreed—Leachman argued …

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2009′s Break-Out Stars
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December 2008
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Cloris Leachman
Old school actress Cloris Leachman – best known for her Oscar-winning turn in “The Last Picture Show” and a nine-time Emmy winner (“Mary Tyler Moore,” “Malcolm In the Middle”) – made a triumphant return to TV this year on “Dancing With the Stars.” “Baby boomers think of her fondly,” says EW’s Vary. “And she’s having a nice resurgence, riding the ‘Dancing’ wave. It has jumpstarted careers for folks like Mario Lopez. But it depends on what she does next. She has a …

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2009′s Break-Out Stars: Page 2
ABCNews.com
December 2008
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Laura Izibor
Irish singer-songwriter Laura Izibor drops her first disc, “Let the Truth Be Told,” early next year, but the buzz around her has been building for a while. Her first single, “From My Heart to Yours” is already climbing Billboard’s R&B airplay chart and the 21-year-old Dublin-native has opened for artists like Al Green, Angie Stone and Aretha Franklin. “Laura is a biracial singer from Ireland, so people are comparing her to Corinne Bailey Rae,” said Essence entertainment director Cori Murray. …

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2009′s Break-Out Stars
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December 2008
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Forget Lindsay Lohan and Shia LeBeouf: ABCNews.com Counts Down ’09′s Hot New Faces & a Few Fabulous Comebacks.
From “Twilight” heartthrob Robert Pattinson to Tina Fey, 2008 has been a very good year for some stars. But who’s set to break out in 2009? ABCNews.com counts down the newest crop of boldfaced names – and a few already famous faces who are ripe for a comeback.
Sam Worthington
Americans may not recognize Aussie actor Sam Worthington, but in 2009, he’s set to steal the spotlight …

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Rob Pattinson on Twilight
Premiere.com
November 2008
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And you guys tried to elevate the characters to another level, huh?
Yeah, it was really funny, looking back on it. When you just read the book, it’s deceptively simple. It’s an easy read. But when you try to actually play it, it’s a lot more difficult. There’s got to be a reason why there are so many fans. There’s something else to it that people are really connecting with. So we were trying to find what that something else was.

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