| International Standard Book Number |
9781668082218
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| International Standard Book Number |
1668082217
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781668082232
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| International Standard Book Number |
1668082233
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
791.4502/8092
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| Personal Name |
Romano, Christy Carlson, author.
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| Title Statement |
Once upon a trainwreck : the fall and rise of a child star / Christy Carlson Romano.
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| Varying Form of Title |
Fall and rise of a child star.
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| Edition Statement |
First Simon Element hardcover edition.
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| Imprint |
©2026.
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| Imprint |
New York, NY : Simon Element, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
xiv, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
Inner child -- Scene, not heard -- Fly away home -- Othered -- Who's that girl? -- The fame game -- Ivory towers -- Poster girl -- Dream world -- Fallout -- God's plan.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"For a generation of kids, former Disney Channel star Christy Carlson Romano was their TV big sister. At her peak, she was sixteen years old and starring across the Disney Channel universe in Even Stevens, Kim Possible, and the original movie Cadet Kelly. She was Disney's smart, serious girl next door--polished, dependable, and seemingly in control. Off camera, she was unraveling. Pushed into show business as a child, Christy learned early that achievement was the price of love. From indie movie gigs and Broadway performances in New York to television shoots in Hollywood, Christy battled bullying, exploitation, financial instability, and the crushing pressure to appear perfect. Desperate to please, she carried that hunger for approval into adulthood--dating controlling men, partying to fit in, spiraling into addiction, and handing thousands to a predatory psychic who promised answers. Rock bottom came in an FBI office. What followed was not a fairy-tale rescue, but a hard-won reckoning: Christy pulling her life back together, questioning the script she'd been handed, reparenting herself, and becoming not the princess she was told to play, but a woman learning how to save her own life. Raw and impossible to put down, Once Upon a Trainwreck is more than a celebrity memoir. It is an inspiring account of childhood fame, addiction, motherhood, identity, breaking cycles, rewriting the ending, and choosing your own life. Punctuated by letters from Christy to her two young daughters, this is a powerful testament to resilience, accountability, and the courage to claim your own story."-- Publisher's description.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Romano, Christy Carlson.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Motion picture actors and actresses Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Child actors United States Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Enfants acteurs États-Unis Biographies.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Memoirs.
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