The print and online tabloids follow actress Tori Spelling’s every move, and paparazzi literally wait on the street for her to emerge from her Encino, Calif., home.

That’s one price of fame, and Spelling has paid it “since I was 17,” she said. She’s certainly had her troubles – most of them sensationalized.

In the 1980s, Spelling, 37, appeared in a string of TV shows produced by her father, the late Aaron Spelling. But it was her 10-year role as Donna Martin in his “Beverly Hills 90210″ series, and appearances in made-for-TV and independent movies, that established her in the public consciousness.

For the past five years, Spelling and her second husband, actor Dean McDermott, have produced and starred in their own reality show on the Oxygen Network, “Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood.” They have two young children, Liam and Stella.

Spelling’s two autobiographies, “sTori Telling” (2008) and “Mommywood” (2009), were best-sellers. Though her trademark wit is again front and center in her new book, “uncharted terriTORI” (Gallery, $25, 224 pages), she confronts some serious issues as well.

I caught up with Spelling on Monday as she waited in the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport for a connecting flight to Tampa, Fla., where her book tour was to continue.

Q. What about the new book?

A. This one gets a lot deeper than the others. I started out thinking it would be my funny stories and anecdotes, but it took a different turn.

Q. There’s an anecdote in it about you contacting the late Farrah Fawcett.

A. It was during a reading on the phone with (celebrity psychic) John Edward. We have the same publicist. I thought, “Oh, this’ll be cool, maybe my dad will come through.” Instead, John said, “Farrah Fawcett’s coming through.” He was really surprised, too. She wanted me to let her family know she’s happy and OK. I wrote a letter to Ryan O’Neal, explaining the story. I said, “Please don’t think I’m crazy, I’m simply passing on a message.”

Q. Your dramatic weight loss last year was rumored to have been an eating disorder, but you say it was the swine flu.

A. It was. I’ve definitely recovered from the flu part, but the complications from it led to a breakdown of my immune system, which is slowly starting to rebuild. My stomach is still kind of a mess.

Q. You opened a Twitter account for your 3-year-old son, Liam.

A. I did. So far he has 25,000 followers.

Q. Has your husband, Dean, recovered from his most recent motorcycle accident?

A. He’s out of the hospital and home, at least, but he’s still in so much pain he can barely walk or lift the kids.

Q. You were estranged from your mother, Candy, and have publicly feuded with her, but you spent Mother’s Day with her.

A. Our relationship is really good now. It was a conscious choice on both our parts to leave the past in the past and not dwell on figuring out what went wrong. We realize that today’s a new day.

Q. You literally grew up on TV. Did you watch many of your dad’s shows, like “The Love Boat” and “Fantasy Island”?

A. Oh, my God, yes – religiously. And it wasn’t just because I had to, it was because they were amazing shows.

On weekends, he’d sit there with scripts and rewrite page after page of every show he had. He would always ask me, “What do you think of this character?” I would always be his little casting assistant. He was so detail-oriented, I think that’s where I get my type-A personality.

Q. What do you watch now?

A. A lot of reality TV. Right now we’re big into the Food Network because it has adult shows the kids will watch with us. It’s a lot better for them than cartoons.

Q. Your life has long been an open book.

A. It’s really hard to get privacy. When we’re at home, that’s our private moment. If there’s an element missing (from my life), it’s probably “me.” In the process of taking care of my family and building our businesses, I’ve lost a little bit of “me” time. I would love to have more “me” back in there so I can enjoy my family and our successes. Frankly, I don’t always have enough time to do that. I’m working on it.

Q. Looking over your career, have the media treated you fairly?

A. Do they treat anyone fairly? I love it when people say, “If it bothers you, just stop reading that stuff about you.” But I’d rather know what they’re saying than not know. I’m used to it, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt my feelings. The worst parts are what they say about my marriage and my weight, which simply aren’t true.

Q. Any message for your fans?

A. I want them to know that everything’s OK. With all the negatives out there, their love and support brighten my life every single day.

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Reality stars Tori Spelling and her husband Dean McDermott are first-time godparents to Simone Lynn Masterson-Horn, the newly adopted daughter of their dear friends and “guncles” Bill Horn and Scout Masterson, reports Celebuzz.

The Guncles star with the couple on her hit Oxygen reality show “Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood” and have wanted to be parents for awhile. Simone joined their family in June.

“We have been so fortunate to have Tori and Dean in our lives as our good friends and chosen family,” they told Celebuzz. “It seemed only natural to ask them to be Simone’s godparents.”

Tori and Dean have two children of their own.

From Extra

Actress Tori Spelling calls on a layover from an airport in Texas, and since you’ve just finished reading a chapter in her new book that talks about her dire fear of flying, you ask how her nerves are holding up.

“I’m actually doing better,” she says, in a soft-spoken voice. “I’m starting to get over my fear, I think.”

Which would be a big help, for the 37-year-old actress, author and entrepreneur can’t stop working, and a lot of that work – including a book tour that brings her to Borders in Costa Mesa on Tuesday – requires travel back and forth across the country.

Her new book is “Uncharted TerriTORI,” and it more or less charts her life in the last few years: a reality series on Oxygen, a so-called feud with her mother Candy Spelling, motherhood and a workaholic lifestyle.

“Every time I finish a book, I’m like, ‘Oh my gosh, this thing just happened, and that thing happened,’” Spelling says of the motivation to write another. “And my fans keep saying, ‘We’ve read both your books, when is another one coming out?’”

She says she gets her work ethic – overwork ethic, perhaps – from her father, the late and legendary TV producer Aaron Spelling. And she’s chosen to open a lot of her private life to the world – through the books and the TV show and the Twitter feed – because it’s what’s made her career a success after earlier acting jobs such as the original “Beverly Hills 90210″ ended.

“I don’t really have any regrets.” Spelling says. “I was out there acting. And no matter what I did people had a perception of me.

“And I remember just wishing they just knew me,” she says. “I wish they could put aside all that background stuff and know me as a person.

“Then I opened up and said I’m going to show them with the (reality) show and the books and it changed.”

As for one of the issues raised in the new book, her workaholic tendencies, Spelling says she working on it, but then lists more upcoming projects than most people would tackle in a year or two.

There’s a sixth season of “Tori & Dean” coming to the Oxygen network, and a new series, too, “Tori & Dean Weddings,” in which she and husband Dean McDermott plan weddings for couples. Her first children’s book, “Presenting Tallulah,” comes out in September. She’s shooting a talk-show pilot for ABC, and, well, you get the picture, right? There’s still work to be done on balancing life as a wife and mother with work, she admits.

“I think over the course of the book I realized that,” Spelling says of the lessons the self-reflection and writing taught her. “I didn’t have a lot of time for me, so I’m still working on that part.”

From the OC Register

I have just added 31 photos of Tori Spelling from the book signing of “Uncharted TerriTORI” in Florida that was held earlier this week!

Tori Spelling is synonymous with many things: 90210, Aaron Spelling’s daughter, and being super skinny. But few would categorize her as a businesswoman. But, over the past few years Tori Spelling has done a great job at excelling in the world of business and making a name for herself as an entrepreneur. She came into the Forbes studio do an interview with me about the business ventures she’s involved with.

As the mom of two young children, Tori Spelling has her hands full constantly. She always wants to make sure that her children learn life’s lessons every day. On the topic of money, Tori was very candid. She told me she will make sure she teaches her children how to handle money, how to make great investments, and how to handle a checkbook.

“I had a very luxurious life, a life of wealth. Unfortunately, my parents really didn’t discuss money with us. We weren’t taught how to handle money. So when I started to make my own money on 90210, I didn’t know about savings, I didn’t know about investments. I had to learn the hard way. I had to go from having everything, to making it on my own, to losing everything, and then having to rebuild again the right way, but the smart way.”

Tori Spelling says husband Dean McDermott isn’t the only one recovering from his motorcycle accident.

Since McDermott, 43, has been home from the hospital, children Liam, 3, and Stella, 2, are having to adjust to seeing their injured father, who is healing from a punctured lung.

“It’s hard,” Spelling, 37, told PEOPLE at Dairy Queen’s Turn Blizzards Into Smiles event Friday in Los Angeles. “It’s hard because Liam’s a daddy’s boy, so he wants Dean to pick him up and we have to explain that daddy’s sick, that he’s hurt, so he can’t get up.”

Spelling also says there’s no way to predict how long before her husband is back to normal until he begins rehab. “[Dean] gets up for a short walk every day, but it’s hard for him.”

From People

Tori is going to be signing copies of “Uncharted TerriTORI” at Warwick’s Books in La Jolla, California on July 31st at 2pm!

Tori Spelling
Actress and New York Times Bestselling Author

Presented by Warwick’s on Saturday, July 31, 2010 at 2:00 pm
Signing Only *Only Books Purchased from Warwick’s will be Signed (signing line ticket required, but will be issued free of charge at time of purchase)

Uncharted TerriTORI
(Simon & Schuster)

Tori finally has everything she thought she wanted—a loving family and a successful career—but trying to live a normal life in Hollywood is a little weird. With the irresistible wit, attitude, and humor that fans have come to love, Tori is back with more hilarious, heartwarming, and candid stories of juggling work, marriage, motherhood, and reality television cameras. Like many mothers, she struggles to find balance, only most women don’t have to battle it out with paparazzi at the grocery store.

She talks openly about the darker side of life in the spotlight: media scrutiny over her weight and her marriage to Dean McDermott, her controversial relationship with Dean’s ex-wife, and her unfolding reconciliation with her mother. Having it all isn’t always easy, but with the help of her unconventional family and friends, an underwear-clad spiritual cleansing or two, and faith in herself, she’s learning to find her happy ending. Because when you’re Tori Spelling, every day brings uncharted terriTORI.

“The Insider” has the latest on Tori Spelling’s husband, Dean McDermott, after news of his hospitilization following a dirt bike accident last week.

“The Insider” has learned that McDermott has been released from the hospital.

On Monday, McDermott tweeted, “I’m healing slowly, I’ll be doing rehab for a while I messed a few things up when I crashed.”

McDermott, 43, had been hospitalized with a punctured, collapsed lung last week. Earlier this year, McDermott was also in a motorcycle accident in which he fractured his shoulder.

Today, Tori tweeted, “We R SO happy tht @deanracer is finally home from hospital! The kids and I picked him up this afternoon. We R all in bed now while he rests.”

McDermott and Spelling have a reality show on Oxygen called “Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood,” and Spelling’s book uncharted terriTORI has just been released.

From The Insider