Tori Spelling reveals the secret to her success — talk it out!

In a relationship, “I think communication is the key,” Tori says. “I know that sounds like a boring tip, but it’s so true! You forget to communicate … I think it’s very important to always make eye contact, to make physical contact .. to keep the open dialogue going.”

She’s also a party girl! Inviting guests to splash around in her pool, she says, “I love to throw parties for my kids, so I’m having all my friends over — and all their kids over — for an end of summer back to school party.” Co-sponsor Sony NEX Cameras provided their newest shooter to record the event with snapshots and video.

“I know most parents are really excited when their kids go back to school, but I’m really sad,” the Hollywood mom says. Over the summer, she and hubby Dean McDermott have taken their two children on weekend trips and getaways, as well as making progress poolside.

Liam and Stella have been working really hard on their backstrokes. Let me just tell you, they’re really good swimmers.” she says proudly.

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From ET Online

Tori Spelling is famous for her work in front of the camera, acting in Beverly Hills 90210 and starring in her own reality TV show.

But the mother of two decided to cross over at the weekend and have a go behind the camera for a change.

Spelling turned photographer for the day, snapping photos of friends and family as she hosted the Sony Nexus Cameras Back To School BBQ in Los Angeles.

37-year-old Spelling wielded the camera like a pro, posing her subjects and trying all angles in the quest for the perfect picture.

She had plenty of cute subject material to experiment with – taking snaps of her baby Godchild, Simone Lynn Masterson-Horn, who was wearing a large pair of pink sunglasses to add to the comedy value, and her own daughter, Stella.

The little two-year-old posed happily for her mother, dressed in a pink polka dot swimsuit and yellow inflatable armbands, half-eaten ice-cream in hand.

Like any great artist before her, Spelling sought out the help of a muse to add to her creative spirit.

In the reality star’s case she chose husband Dean McDermott – proudly showing off her day’s work to him as he cradled their Godchild who was taking a well deserved break from her modelling duties.

Spelling grew up as a fully fledged member of Hollywood royalty.

Her father was Aaron Spelling, the hugely successful and mega-wealthy TV producer that created hit after hit show, including Charlie’s Angels, Dynasty and Starsky and Hutch.

As a child Tori got plenty of on-camera experience, guesting on shows such as Love Boat, T.J. Hooker and Saved By The Bell.

She shot to fame though portraying virtuous Donna Martin on her father’s hit show, Beverly Hills 90210.

Tori has also starred in two different reality TV shows – So NoTORIous and Tori and Dean: Inn Love.

The later followed Tori and her second husband, Dean McDermott as they endeavoured to run a bed and breakfast in Fallbrook, California.

Spelling is also an author, having written and published three books.

She released her first autobiography in March 2008, titled sTori Telling, following up with Mommywood in April 2009 and a third book this year called Unchartered TerriTORI.

She says of her writing experience: ‘I love sharing my stories and experiences with people and connecting to them on both a humorous and emotional level.’

From the Daily Mail

Last week, Tori and Dean were photographed in support of the NOH8 campaign and I have just added 2 photos from the shoot!

Between filming a reality show and embarking on a nationwide book tour, Tori Spelling says it can be hard to balance her career with her home life.

“I’m still working on trying to balance it all, and it’s a struggle I deal with every single day. I want to do it all!” Spelling, 37, tells UsMagazine.com. “I’m passionate about everything in my life. Obviously my family and my kids are my priority. I want to be that stay-at-home mom, but I want to build an empire at the same time.”

The Beverly Hills, 90210 alum is quick to admit that raising Liam, 3, and Stella, 2, has sometimes taken a toll on her marriage to Dean McDermott.

“Four years into a marriage, we never thought we’d be having these issues and having problems,” she says. “But you never think ahead what it’s like to have kids, and a lot of our issues came from different view points on parenting.”

So how do the two parents find a compromise?

“We had communication breakdown, but we’ve worked through that. We’re still working on stuff, but I think relationships are a work in progress,” Spelling tells Us. “It all takes work, but if you love that person, you’re willing to do the work.”

And when things do get rough, Spelling says she only has to look at her children to regain her perspective.

“They’re best friends. They do everything together,” she gushes. “Stella’s new thing is that she sings ‘Single Ladies’ and dances to it. No joke, she shakes her hips! And people are like, ‘Is that normal? She watches Beyonce?’ And I’m like, ‘No, she watches Chipmunks: The Squeakquel — they do it in that!’”

From US Magazine

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