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OK, Boomer: Why the best celebrity memoirs come from the young and famous

ByChristalle Fernandes
Oct 25, 2024 04:12 PM IST

You don’t need to be old and wise to pen a memoir. Celeb tell-alls are telling it all, right when we want to read about it. It’s history being told as it's made

Two decades ago, when Paris Hilton released her glitzy, ditzy memoir, Confessions of An Heiress, critics and haters went wild. The press called it “almost witty”, “vapid”, “insensitive”. They missed that it was tongue-in-chic (The publisher’s pun, not ours. They actually put it on the cover). Who said memoirs had to be doddering tomes written only by nearly dead people, anyway?

Paris Hilton’s first memoir, Confessions of An Heiress, is irreverent, light, and glitzy. And so fun to read. (SHUTTERSTOCK)
Paris Hilton’s first memoir, Confessions of An Heiress, is irreverent, light, and glitzy. And so fun to read. (SHUTTERSTOCK)
Jennette McCurdy’s memoir, I’m Glad My Mom Died, is a heartbreaking tale of the abuse that child actors face.
Jennette McCurdy’s memoir, I’m Glad My Mom Died, is a heartbreaking tale of the abuse that child actors face.
Trevor Noah talks about growing up as a mixed-race child in South Africa under apartheid in Born a Crime. (SHUTTERSTOCK)
Trevor Noah talks about growing up as a mixed-race child in South Africa under apartheid in Born a Crime. (SHUTTERSTOCK)
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