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.

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Star news read the tome and laughed over Alexis’ anecdotes about living with her perfectionist of a mother:

Home and hearth diva MARTHA STEWART‘s daughter Alexis said she had a glue gun held to her head growing up with her perfectionist mom. Alexis, 46, is releasing a tell-all book about life with her mother, “Whateverland: Learning to Live Here,” and it’s going to contain a lot of parent issues she has with her business magnate mother.

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Alexis, herself a new parent, laments her mother’s lack of parenting skills in her book.

Martha Stewart lost another one of her dogs in a horrific accident over the weekend. Hew chow, named Ghengis Khan, was staying at a dog boarding house in Pennsylvania when an explosion occurred.  Martha’s dog, along with 16 others, were killed.

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More pictures after the jump…

Martha posted pictures in a tribute to her pooch on her blog.  It’s been less than a year since she lost another dog.  This is what she says in her blog: