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Here’s the Story of A Not-So-Lovely Girl

October 13, 2008 by Romy

If there’s one thing I love, it’s celebrity tell-all books.  Earlier this year, Madonna’s brother released Life with My Sister Madonna the scandalous tell-all that revealed all the nitty-gritty details of life as the less famous Ciccone.  Of course, I thought that the title of the book should have been “Madonna, Madonna, Madonna!” said in the same Jan Brady voice when she was whining about her sister Marcia. 

Well, speaking of Marcia, Marcia, Marcia - guess who also released a book this month?  Yes –You guessed it!  Ms. Maureen “Marcia Brady” McCormick and this is one read you do not want to overlook.  Although Marcia may have played a good-two-shoes on The Brady Bunch, let me tell you (rather, let Maureen McCormick tell you) she was everything but.  In her new book Here’s the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice , Marcia, oopsy I mean Maureen, reveals the darker side of this lovely girl.  Like what you ask? 

Maureen tells stories about drugs, sex and rock and roll.  There were the drug binges at the Playboy Mansion or at Sammy Davis Jr.’s house.  Trading sex for drugs, becoming addicted to various illicit substances like cocaine and Quaaludes (how very Seventies), unwanted pregnancies, romances with Michael Jackson and Steve Martin, and much, much more!

She’s sober now (and has been since she married in 1985), won VH1’s Celebrity Fit Club challenge in 2007 and had a family negotiation with her brother on national television (thank you Dr. Phil).  So, like the Brady Bunch, this story has a fairly happy ending – Maureen McCormick survived life as a child celebrity and lives to tell the tales.

…Oh great, now I have the Brady Bunch theme song stuck in my head…