Untied: A Memoir of Family, Fame, and Floundering Audiobook (Free)

“I recall Sarah asking me personally, when I’d simply begun therapy with her, what I looked for in a guy. After a few moments of silent, tense deliberation I had fashioned it. ‘Locks,’ I blurted. ‘He has to have hair.’”

Meredith Baxter is a beloved and iconic tv actress, most well-known for her enormously popular function as hippie mother, Elyse Keaton, on Family Ties. Her comfort, humor, and amazing smile made her perhaps one of the most popular women on tv, with an incredible number of audiences following about Untied: A Memoir of Family members, Popularity, and Floundering her on the small screen every week. Yet her achievement masked a tumultuous personal tale and a harrowing personal life. For the very first time, Baxter is ready to share her incredible highs, (working with Robert Redford, Doris Time, Lana Turner, as well as the solid of Family members Ties), and lows (a thorny relationship with her mom, a difficult marriage to David Birney, a bout with breasts tumor), finally uncovering the girl behind the picture.

From her childhood in Hollywood, growing in the daughter of actress and co-creator of 1 Day at a Time Whitney Blake, Baxter became acquainted with the ups and downs of show business from an early age. After wholeheartedly embracing the 60s counterculture way of living, she was forced to depend on her performing abilities after her initial divorce still left her a 22-year-old one mother of two. Baxter began her professional profession with supporting jobs in the critically panned horror film Ben, and in the politics thriller All of the President’s Men.

More lucrative work soon followed on the small display screen. Baxter starred with professional David Birney as the title heroes in controversial sitcom Bridget Loves Bernie. While the series just lasted a 12 months, her high-profile romance with Birney lasted 15 volatile and disappointed years. Concealing the most severe of her situation from actually those closest to her, Baxter’s career flourished as her self-esteem and family members crumbled. Her effective operate as Nancy on Family members was followed by her enormously popular role on Family Ties, and dozens of well-received television movies.

After a bitter divorce and custody battle with Birney, Baxter increasingly relied on alcohol as a refuge, and here speaks candidly of her decision to consider her last drink in 1990.

Even though another ruinous divorce to screenwriter Michael Blodgett taxed Baxter’s power and confidence, she has emerged from her experiences using the renewed self-assurance, poise, and understanding that have enabled her to find a loving, respectful relationship with Nancy Locke, and to discuss it openly.

Told with insight, wit, and disarming frankness, Untied is the eye-opening and motivating life of an actress, a woman, and a mother who has come into her own.