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Jennette McCurdy

Biography

Jennette McCurdy

Jennette McCurdy is the author of I'M GLAD MY MOM DIED, winner of the 2023 American Library Association Alex Award and the 2022 Goodreads Choice Award for Memoir & Autobiography. The book is a #1 New York Times bestseller and has spent more than 80 weeks on the list. It has been published in more than 30 countries and has sold more than three million copies. McCurdy is creating, writing, executive producing, directing and showrunning an Apple TV+ series loosely inspired by I'M GLAD MY MOM DIED, starring Jennifer Aniston. McCurdy’s debut novel, HALF HIS AGE, will publish in January 2026.

Jennette McCurdy

Books by Jennette McCurdy

I'm Glad My Mom Died
by Jennette McCurdy - Memoir, Nonfiction

Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother’s dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went along with what Mom called “calorie restriction,” eating little and weighing herself five times a day. She endured extensive at-home makeovers while Mom chided, “Your eyelashes are invisible, okay? You think Dakota Fanning doesn’t tint hers?” She was even showered by Mom until age 16 while sharing her diaries, email and all her income. In I'M GLAD MY MOM DIED, Jennette recounts all this in unflinching detail --- just as she chronicles what happens when the dream finally comes true.