Tell Me Everything, the new memoir from Minka Kelly, is not your usual celebrity tell-all.  But then again, Minka Kelly is not your usual celebrity.  Born to a single mother with no support system, Kelly bounced around Los Angeles and, eventually, Albuquerque, New Mexico, almost never having a permanent place to call home and moving from her mother’s care to friends, acquaintances, and even strangers as she grew up.  Eventually, she found her way back to LA, where she became a scrub nurse before being “discovered” by an agent, which led to modeling, commercials, and, eventually, an acting career.

If you are looking for a deep dive into Kelly’s career and life in Hollywood, this is not the book for you.  Her breakout role, as cheerleader Lyla Garrity on Friday Night Lights, gets about five pages of coverage.  The main thrust is her awful upbringing and her attempts to come to terms with that upbringing as an adult, recognizing how the safeguards she put in place to survive were sabotaging her relationships as an adult.