I feel that the truth lies somewhere in between and that Christina had a very challenging if privileged upbringing with a mother that was extremely personality disordered. She is an unreliable narrator either because of trauma or capitalizing on alleged traumas and it is very difficult to tease out.

She also has done some TV and film acting work. She has completed a communications degree as well as having an estimated net worth of 5 million due likely to both her books and film. She is clearly fairly bright with a master's degree but she has a tendency to externalize all her difficulties on her mother as well as fate. In fact, Christina Crawford comes across as an eleven year old throughout the book and her emotional immaturity is both her charm and a great cause of her difficulties with both herself and society in general. The children, the babies were in a state of mutiny! Mommie dearest has to punish bad babies.mommie dearest doesn't want to have anything more to do with bad babies.mommie dearest put bad babies away from her.mommie dearest found a prison for bad babies and locked them up to punish them for being such bad babies.' Mommie dearest became enraged when she perceived that all was not well in mannequin-land. Here is a sample of very strange and immature writing:

Crawford was likely dissociating while writing it. She comes across as both extremely naive and extremely rageful. I found the character study of Christina as she writes about her life fascinating. I am not going to focus on the allegations of Christina Crawford as if what she describes is completely true then Joan Crawford is one of the most disturbed women ever. Here is a clip of my 10 year old self's nightmare scene !! This film terrified me when I was a child and I had nightmares for several weeks after a babysitter let me watch this with her on a friday night. 3 'poorly written but utterly fascinating' stars !!!īarely 2 stars for the writing but 4 stars in a fascinating character study of Christina Crawford !!Ĭhristina Crawford was a celebrity poster child for alleged abuse done to her and siblings by film actress Joan Crawford who was her adoptive mother.

Mommie dearest christina