MARTHA STEWART‘s daughter, Alexis, admitted that when she said her mom held a “glue gun to my head”, she meant it as a metaphor. Alexis, 46, says her book “Whateverland: Learning To Live Here” contains stories of her life growing up in Martha‘s household. But truly, she insists, her mother never literally held a glue gun to her head.
Star news read the tome and laughed over Alexis’ anecdotes about living with her perfectionist of a mother:
“If I didn’t do something perfectly I had to do it again.”
Alexis wrote. And…
“There were no glue guns. I wish there had been–it would have been more fun. [Martha] worked hard and was a perfectionist and I don’t have a problem with that.”
Alexis’ book further reveals how the home and hearth mogul raised her daughter:
“My mother used to have me wrap my own presents on Christmas, hand me things and say, ‘Now wrap these but don’t look inside. But I didn’t because I knew it was never worth looking.”
Martha wasn’t a believer in sweets and candies for young teeth, either. During Halloween,
“We turned off all of the lights, pretended we weren’t home and my mother never had anything but apples and pennies to annoy the children with.”
But the most damning thing Alexis wrote about her mother involved Martha‘s habit of peeing with the door open. And if that’s the sole domestic skeleton in her closet (apart from illegal speculation, that is), then Martha‘s better off than most of us.
“It is hilarious and enlightening and full of funny stories,”
the 70-year-old home mogul says about her daughter’s book.
“I encourage to you buy it, read it and make it a best seller.”
Because what else is a mother supposed to be if not supportive. Good call, Martha Stewart!
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