'Friday Night Lights' star Minka Kelly details shocking childhood: strip clubs, peep shows and teen pregnancy
foxnews.comMinka Kelly is revealing details of her "chaotic" and "unstable" childhood - raised by an exotic dancer - in a shocking, upcoming memoir.
Kelly, now 42, shares stories of her mother, "Mo," taking her to strip clubs as a child, physical abuse and getting pregnant at 17.The memoir, "Tell Me Everything," is set to be released on May 2. "My childhood was colorful and chaotic, unstable and inconsistent, unpredictable and hard a lot of the times," Kelly told People magazine. "But the silver lining is that it made me a very adaptable person." The actress grew up in poverty and often unsupervised as her mother worked as an exotic dancer to make ends meet.
As a young child, Mo would sometimes take Kelly with her to Crazy Girls strip club in Los Angeles, and they'd go grocery shopping at 2 a.m.
afterward if Mo made enough money, according to People magazine. At the age of 17, Kelly performed in peep shows at an adult video store in New Mexico – to make ends meet while her mother wasn't around, the outlet reported. "I started with the scariest part," Kelly told the outlet of her decision to write about the peep show in first part of the memoir. "The part that I carried the most shame about, the part that I felt the most embarrassed of, the part that I hid my whole life, and the part that I've had people make me feel bad about.
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