Here's the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice - Softcover

Maureen McCormick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061490156 ISBN 13: 9780061490156

Publisher: HarperEntertainment, 2009

Synopsis

Marcia Brady had it all - style, looks, boys, brains and talent. What viewers didn't know about the always sunny, perfect Marcia was that off-screen, the real little girl, Maureen McCormick, was living a very different life. This title discloses the devastating effects of a dark secret her mother tried to keep until near the end of her life.

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From the Back Cover:

For countless adolescents across America who came of age in the early 1970s, Marcia Brady, eldest daughter on television's The Brady Bunch, was the ideal American teenager. But what viewers didn't know about the always sunny, always perfect Marcia was that Maureen McCormick, the young actress who portrayed her, was living a very different--and not-so-wonderful--life.

In Here's the Story, Maureen takes us behind the scenes of America's favorite television family--and reveals with poignancy and candor how she landed on the dark side, caught up in a fast-paced, drug-fueled, star-studded Hollywood nightmare that led to the biggest, most important battle of her life. This brave, hard-hitting memoir exposes a side of a beloved pop-culture icon the paparazzi missed. Yet ultimately it is also a story of success and survival--an empowering, engaging, shocking, and emotional true tale of a young woman's lifelong battle to come to terms with the idea of perfection...and with herself.

Synopsis:

Marcia Brady had it all - style, looks, boys, brains and talent. No wonder Jan was jealous! Young woman across the generations cheered on as Marcia ran for student president and took her drivers test. We swooned when she got the lead role in "Romeo and Juliet" and sported those groovy ponchos and platform shoes. We understood when Marcia suffered through braces and a slight case of acne. We cried when she broke her nose, lost dates all because of her brothers and even lost the attic to Greg. What viewers didn't know about the always sunny, perfect Marcia Brady was that off-screen, the real little girl, Maureen McCormick, was living a very different and not-so-wonderful life. She discloses the devastating effects of a dark secret her mother tried to keep until near the end of her life, and also how that affected her relationship with her parents and five siblings, including a mentally disabled brother with whom she was very close.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperEntertainment
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0061490156
• ISBN 13: 9780061490156
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304