Actress Minka Kelly writes about the abortion she had at 17 and her traumatic childhood in her upcoming memoir, 'Tell Me Everything.'
of her"chaotic" and"unstable" childhood — raised by an exotic dancer — in a shocking, upcoming memoir.
The actress grew up in poverty and often unsupervised as her mother worked as an exotic dancer to make ends meet. Mo would sometimes take the young child with her to the 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.
Kelly also found out she was pregnant at the age of 17 with her high-school boyfriend, Rudy. The actress moved in with Rudy at the time but later chose to have an abortion."Raise this baby together, how?" Kelly wrote, according to excerpts obtained by Page Six."With what money? What home? What insurance? I couldn’t imagine bringing a baby into what my mother brought me into. Absolutely not.
Kelly says she was forced to pay an ex-boyfriend $50,000 for a coerced sex tape she had made with him. Kelly returned to Los Angeles after finishing high school and studied to become a surgical technician while acting. She was also able to reconnect with her father, a former guitarist for Aerosmith.co-star Taylor Kitsch in the memoir. She landed the role of Lyla Garrity on the drama, which ran from 2006 to 2009.Kelly details what she describes as a"toxic relationship" in her new memoir.
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