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Kailyn Lowry, the feisty, tattooed beauty whose determination to raise her son on her own terms has been documented on MTV’s hit series Teen Mom 2, opens up in this raw memoir about her painful past and offers an inspiring account of a young girl’s resolve to survive and succeed.
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Kailyn Lowry, the feisty, tattooed beauty whose determination to raise her son on her own terms has been documented on MTV’s hit series Teen Mom 2, opens up in this raw memoir about her painful past and offers an inspiring account of a young girl’s resolve to survive and succeed.
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72 of 84 people found the following review helpful
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on April 20, 2014
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The book started off as a page-turner. It gave a very real and honest insight into Kail's past life and history. She begins the book as someone easily related to, someone who (like the rest of us) has gone through great turmoil and hardship.
However as the book goes on, it is drenched with put downs of those who come from a background of religion or faith. Or basically anyone who has an opinion other than hers, on just about anything. If you need proof, there's an entire chapter devoted to slamming organized religious communities. She attempts to put disclaimers saying she is open to and non judgemental of those who disagree with her, but there's a constant undertone (way beyond just that chapter) of belittling non-atheists and other backgrounds that completely challenges those statements of respect. I am respectful of every background or belief system- I take absolutely no offense to her atheism - but this was too aggressive and off putting. I could tell she would take offense to my beliefs.... It was like there was a definite agenda being shoved down my throat, and it felt like she was going to pop out of the pages, extremely angry at me for disagreeing. (Really I could feel it)
Aside from that, she has been taped and quoted several times saying "it's not like Farrah's book as far as editing, we put a lot of time into this." While the time spent organizing content may have taken years, I am astounded at how many periods were missing, and how many typos were present. I've never understood why such major errors are present, as they are completely prevented with a single read-over. While the content was different, the poor editing was not. I understand that she most likely has little to do with this oversight.Read more ›
However as the book goes on, it is drenched with put downs of those who come from a background of religion or faith. Or basically anyone who has an opinion other than hers, on just about anything. If you need proof, there's an entire chapter devoted to slamming organized religious communities. She attempts to put disclaimers saying she is open to and non judgemental of those who disagree with her, but there's a constant undertone (way beyond just that chapter) of belittling non-atheists and other backgrounds that completely challenges those statements of respect. I am respectful of every background or belief system- I take absolutely no offense to her atheism - but this was too aggressive and off putting. I could tell she would take offense to my beliefs.... It was like there was a definite agenda being shoved down my throat, and it felt like she was going to pop out of the pages, extremely angry at me for disagreeing. (Really I could feel it)
Aside from that, she has been taped and quoted several times saying "it's not like Farrah's book as far as editing, we put a lot of time into this." While the time spent organizing content may have taken years, I am astounded at how many periods were missing, and how many typos were present. I've never understood why such major errors are present, as they are completely prevented with a single read-over. While the content was different, the poor editing was not. I understand that she most likely has little to do with this oversight.Read more ›
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23 of 29 people found the following review helpful
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Melissa
on May 6, 2014
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I choose to read this book, because I have followed the MTV 16 and pregnant series, as well as, Teen Mom and Teen Mom 2. I thought it would be interesting to get some depth to Kail and her life beyond what was captured on television. I also was interested in Jo's story before meeting Kail, so I bought it. I wish now I could return it. (SPOILER ALERT) There were a lot of things I could relate to in Kailyn's life (having an alcoholic mother, abortion, moving around, having sex at too young of an age, bipolar, etc). It did get a little repetitious and annoying to hear how she constantly looks at life from ONLY her own perspective. She came across as being very self absorb with a lack of empathy. Maybe this is just her immaturity and lack of life experience, but I found this to be frustrating and sad for her. The book felt more like a pity party then anything. To be honest, I could stand most of it and kept giving her the benefit of the doubt up until the anti-religion chapter. To read how it bothered her that the man who married them in court quoted a passage from the bible was too much. How can she say that she is fine with everyone's beliefs, but then state that? I actually felt bad for Javi, since he comes from a Catholic family. She is closed minded, but wait she continues to tell us she isn't? I do believe it was hard for her to open up and share all her life experiences and I do praise her for being honest, but parts of me felt she only did this for two reasons, one to make money off of book sales and two, to get her story out before someone else got to profit off of it, which made me actually walking away after reading this book feeling like I liked her a little less. I have tattoos, but I didn't need to hear her feelings about them.Read more ›
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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful
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Catherine
on April 25, 2014
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I loved getting the inside stories from Kail herself, but whoever edited the book should have done a much better job checking spelling and grammatical errors
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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on May 7, 2014
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Nothing in the book that wasn't on the show. Maybe a bit more detail about what Kailyn thought and felt in each situation but pretty much followed the show spot on.
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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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tylerokun12
on May 9, 2014
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This book was all over the place. I knew everything already from gossip sites. Poorly written with a ton of grammatical errors and terrible verbiage. Obviously, the author was trying way too hard to sound articulate.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Trina Gentilia
on May 20, 2014
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This book was just ok in my opinion. Everything she reveals about herself is told in most summaries of the book. There were several typos as well. However good for her for writing her book and moving on with her life:)
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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on May 17, 2014
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The book had some interesting information but it was poorly written and didn't flow well at all. Kail is an interesting person and one of my favorites from the show...but she isn't an author.
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27 of 37 people found the following review helpful
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k.lush
on April 27, 2014
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Ironically titled Pride Over Pity, when all she does is throw herself a pity party. We get it, you've suffered every way imaginable. Now that you claim to have over come it all, how about working on that s***ty attitude.
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