**The Instant New York Times Bestseller** Selma Blair has played
many archetypal roles: gullible ingenue in Cruel Intentions. Preppy
ice queen in Legally Blonde. Fire-starter in Hellboy. Muse to Karl
Lagerfeld. Face of Chanel. Cover model. Advocate for the multiple
sclerosis community. But before all of that, Selma was known best
for being one thing: a mean baby. In a memoir that is as wildly
funny as it is emotionally shattering, Selma Blair tells the
captivating story of growing up and finding her truth. The first
story Selma Blair Beitner ever heard about herself is that she was
a mean, mean baby. With her mouth pulled in a perpetual snarl and a
head so furry it had to be rubbed to make way for her forehead,
Selma spent years living up to her terrible reputation: biting her
sisters, lying spontaneously, getting drunk from Passover wine at
the age of seven, and behaving dramatically so that she would be
the center of attention. Although Selma went on to become a
celebrated Hollywood actress and model, she could never quite shake
the periods of darkness that overtook her, the certainty that there
was a great mystery at the heart of her life. She often felt like
her arms might be on fire, a sensation not unlike electric shocks,
and she secretly drank to escape. Over the course of this beautiful
and, at times, shocking memoir, Selma lays bare her addiction to
alcohol, her devotion to her brilliant and complicated mother, and
the moments she flirted with death. There is brutal violence,
passionate love, true friendship, the gift of motherhood and,
finally, the simultaneous devastation and surprising salvation of a
multiple sclerosis diagnosis. In a voice that is powerfully
original, fiercely intelligent, and full of hard-won wisdom, Selma
Blair's Mean Baby is a deeply human memoir and a true literary
achievement.
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