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Martha Stewart's Daughter Reveals Not-So Perfect Childhood In Tell-All Book

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What's living with Martha Stewart like? Well, according to her daughter Alexis, it wasn't exactly all crafts and Christmas magic.

According to the Daily Mail, Alexis is opening up about her childhood in a new book, 'Whateverland: Learning to Live Here.'

"If I didn't do something perfectly, I had to do it again... I grew up with a glue gun pointed at my head," Alexis says in her new book out Oct. 18. Read more;

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"Mother always peed with the door open. "I remember saying, 'You know, now I have friends over! You can't do that anymore! It's gotta stop! My friends' parents don't do it! Give me a break here! I don't feel like being embarrassed! It's exhausting! I'm a kid! Stop!"'

Wow!

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Reply#1 - Mon Oct 3, 2011 7:27 PM EDT
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I'll agree there's something not quite right about that household. Yikes.

"[My] mother actually told me when I was a small child, 'Now Alexis, if this ever happens, you make sure you have sex with somebody else to have their baby. Don't have his baby.'

Who tells their young child something like that?

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Reply#2 - Tue Oct 4, 2011 12:32 PM EDT
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