The Bridesmaid's Daughter: From Grace Kelly's Wedding to a Women's Shelter--Searching for the Truth About My Mother
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A daughter's moving search to understand her mother, Carolyn Scott—once a bridesmaid to Princess Grace and one of the first Ford models—who later in life spent years living in a homeless shelter.
Nyna Giles was picking up groceries at the supermarket one day when she looked down and saw the headline on the cover of a tabloid: "Former Bridesmaid of Princess Grace Lives in Homeless Shelter." Nyna was stunned, shocked to see her family's private ordeal made so public—the woman mentioned on that cover, Carolyn Scott Reybold, was her mother.
Nyna's childhood had been spent in doctor's offices. Too ill, she was told, to go to school like other children, she spent nearly every waking moment at her mother's side at their isolated Long Island estate or on trips into the city to see the ballet. The doctors couldn't tell her what was wrong, but as Nyna grew up, her mother, who'd always seemed fragile, became more and more distant. Now Nyna was forced to confront an agonizing realization: she barely knew the woman on the magazine in front of her.
She knew that her mother had been a model after arriving in New York in 1947, living at the Barbizon Hotel, where she'd met the young Grace Kelly and that the two had become fast friends. Nyna had seen the photos of Carolyn at Grace's wedding, wearing the yellow bridesmaid gown that had hung in her closet for years. But how had the seemingly confident, glamorous woman in those pictures become the mother she knew growing up—the mother who was now living in a shelter?
In this powerful memoir of friendship and motherhood, Nyna Giles uncovers her mother's past to answer the questions she never knew to ask.
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Nyna Giles. (2018). The Bridesmaid's Daughter: From Grace Kelly's Wedding to a Women's Shelter--Searching for the Truth About My Mother. St. Martin's Publishing Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Nyna Giles. 2018. The Bridesmaid's Daughter: From Grace Kelly's Wedding to a Women's Shelter--Searching for the Truth About My Mother. St. Martin's Publishing Group.
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MLA Citation (style guide)Nyna Giles. The Bridesmaid's Daughter: From Grace Kelly's Wedding to a Women's Shelter--Searching for the Truth About My Mother. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2018.
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A daughter's moving search to understand her mother, Carolyn Scott—once a bridesmaid to Princess Grace and one of the first Ford models—who later in life spent years living in a homeless shelter.
Nyna Giles was picking up groceries at the supermarket one day when she looked down and saw the headline on the cover of a tabloid: "Former Bridesmaid of Princess Grace Lives in Homeless Shelter." Nyna was stunned, shocked to see her family's private ordeal made so public—the woman mentioned on that cover, Carolyn Scott Reybold, was her mother.
Nyna's childhood had been spent in doctor's offices. Too ill, she was told, to go to school like other children, she spent nearly every waking moment at her mother's side at their isolated Long Island estate or on trips into the city to see the ballet. The doctors couldn't tell her what was wrong, but as Nyna grew up, her mother, who'd always seemed fragile, became more and more distant. Now Nyna was forced to confront an agonizing realization: she barely knew the woman on the magazine in front of her.
She knew that her mother had been a model after arriving in New York in 1947, living at the Barbizon Hotel, where she'd met the young Grace Kelly and that the two had become fast friends. Nyna had seen the photos of Carolyn at Grace's wedding, wearing the yellow bridesmaid gown that had hung in her closet for years. But how had the seemingly confident, glamorous woman in those pictures become the mother she knew growing up—the mother who was now living in a shelter?
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A public relations executive tells the story of her once-glamorous mother's decline into mental illness.Giles knew her mother, Carolyn Scott, as a free-spirited but socially isolated Long Island homemaker who was close to Grace Kelly. She also knew her as the woman who insisted to doctors that her youngest daughter was too sickly to attend school. Many years later, when the author saw a newspaper story about how her now homeless and mentally ill mother had been a bridesmaid at Kelly's wedding, she realized that Carolyn's early life was a mystery to her. Desperate for insight, Giles began to research her mother's past. Carolyn left her "hardscrabble hometown" in Ohio for New York City when she was 19. She took up residence at the famous Barbizon Hotel for women, where she met and befriended aspiring actress Kelly in 1947. Carolyn started modeling, eventually signing on with the then-fledgling Ford Modeling Agency. Though she married in 1949, she continued to model while Grace began a brief but spectacularly successful career as a film actress, which ended with her marriage to Prince Rainier of Monaco. As she drew nearer to 30, Carolyn devoted herself to motherhood full-time. But after the traumatic C-section birth of her third and final child, she gradually withdrew into the distant, fragile figure of Giles' memories. Only after consulting with doctors about the circumstances around that birth was the author able to ascertain the truth: though diagnosed with schizophrenia, Carolyn had in fact suffered from postpartum psychosis that had deteriorated over time. Giles suggests that because the condition was not well understood at that time, Carolyn would not have received proper care. But had treatment existed, recovery--and a normal life for her and family--would have been possible. Illustrated throughout with photos, the narrative celebrates a lifelong female friendship while shedding light on a powerful, if at times painful and complex, mother-daughter bond.A poignantly compelling memoir about family, mental health, and revisiting the past.COPYRIGHT(2018) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Giles' mother, Carolyn, was an Eileen Ford model in the 1940s and 1950s and a bridesmaid at Grace Kelly's fairy-tale wedding to Prince Rainier III of Monaco. But her final years were spent alone, refusing help, on the streets of New York City. In this fascinating memoir, Giles uses alternating chapters to interweave her childhood memories and accounts she pieced together of her mother's life. Fate made Carolyn and Grace Kelly neighbors and friends at the Barbizon Hotel in New York City in the 1940s. While Grace's star was rising in Hollywood, Carolyn married an older man who became increasingly controlling. After Grace's wedding and exit from her film career, the women's lives diverged. Eventually, Carolyn became so obsessed with her daughter's health that she kept her out of school and dragged her from doctor to doctor. It's not until Giles left home and moved in with an older sister that she realized her mother had imagined her illnesses. This is a fascinating story of the toll of mental illness and a daughter's search for understanding and forgiveness.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2018, American Library Association.)
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