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.”

You’d think that Tori Spelling showing up three hours late to her own book release party was the ultimate snub.

But don’t judge this tell-all by its cover.

Spelling had spent the last four hours signing autographs at a local Borders store, and insisted on talking with every person in line and posing for snapshots.

An entrepreneur, Spelling wears many (presumably stylish) hats. She and her husband, actor Dean McDermott — along with the couple’s children Liam, 3, and Stella, 2 — star in their own reality TV show, “Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood.” Spelling also has her own jewelry line, designs children’s clothing, and is a working actress, spokeswoman and author.

“The great thing about what I do is I only take on work and businesses that are organic to me and I’m passionate about. It’s kind of a blend of my life because at some point, my life became my business, and my business is my life … which is a hard balance to strike,” Spelling said.

In her latest book, “uncharted terriTORI,” Spelling tackles eating disorder rumors (she says she had H1N1), the truth about her marriage, her friendships (or lack thereof) with her former “Beverly Hills, 90210″ co-stars, motherhood and the thawing of her icy relationship with her own mother.

Spelling was eager to set the record straight about all talk of anorexia. “I address all of my health issues in the book,” she told CNN. “And I think it’s really irresponsible to label someone with an eating disorder. I pride myself on being an inspiration to women out there, and I want them to have a healthy body image. I have a daughter of my own, so I think they should really do research and get their facts straight.”

Regarding her marriage, Spelling says, “Dean and I haven’t hid the fact that we’ve had a rough year.” She attributes what she refers to as the couple’s “four-year crossroads” to a communications breakdown, differing opinions on parenting and McDermott’s opposition to her own self-proclaimed “workaholic tendencies.”

In her book, Spelling said she had come to terms with the fact that, like all couples, she and McDermott were in an “ebb” phase, and that things weren’t always going to “flow.” She wrote: “If someone says they’re in a perfect relationship — they’re lying. And I was the girl who went into it wanting the perfect relationship.”

Although the internet is rampant with stories about Spelling receiving the silent treatment from the old “90210″ gang, she was asked about the possibility of her character, Donna Martin, returning to the small screen on the new “90210.” “You know what,” Spelling told CNN. “I totally would, but they haven’t called me. For the fans, I would.”

Spelling, famous among her friends for throwing elaborate parties, is currently shooting a new reality show with the Oxygen network. “We’re currently filming ‘Tori & Dean: Weddings,’ ” she says, “which is really amazing because everyone knows I love planning a party, and I specifically love planning a wedding and I’m all about love. Dean and I have been working on our relationship this year and kind of getting back to us. And really, what’s better than love and a party? So there you have the perfect wedding. And we have this great, unbelievable opportunity to plan people’s dream weddings and kind of navigate young couples through the process of getting married — what their relationship is now and what they can look forward to and guide them through that.”

When asked about the return of “Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood,” which just wrapped up its fourth season, Spelling told CNN, “No official pickup has been announced, but if the fans bring us back, I think there’s a very good chance. The fans are worried that this is a replacement, but we plan on doing both shows, so the great thing about that is they’ll get two sets of ‘Tori & Dean’ two times a year instead of one set one time a year.”

Spelling’s next writing project is a children’s book, due in September. “I am really excited about that,” she told CNN. “I love writing, it’s a passion of mine and I love my kids, and I really wanted to do a children’s book. I’m working with my same publishers, Simon and Schuster, and when they told me they wanted to do a children’s book, and I was like, ‘Yes! I am so in!’ So I dedicated this book to Liam and Stella — it’s called ‘Presenting … Tallulah,’ and it’s about a little girl standing up for who she is and believing in herself.”

Spelling also shared an anecdote about Stella: “Her new thing is she sings ‘Single Ladies’ and she dances to it. No joke, she shakes her hips!” Spelling says the little girl didn’t learn it from her. “She watched ‘Chipmunks: The Squeakquel’. They do it in that!”

From CNN

Don’t expect there to be any play-dates between Tiffani Thiessen’s newborn daughter and the kids of her former 90210 costar Tori Spelling.

“She doesn’t talk to me anymore,” Spelling said of Thiessen on Ryan Seacrest’s KIIS-FM radio show Monday, while promoting her latest book Uncharted TerriTORI.

In fact, Spelling, 37, says with the exception of Jennie Garth, she is not in touch with any of her former 90210 pals.

“All my cast members hate me,” she says. “People say, ‘Do you mean during 90210?’ I say, ‘No, we were great friends during 90210. We were friends after 90210.’ They all came to my first wedding.”

But according to Spelling it all changed after she got remarried. “All of a sudden I marry Dean [McDermott], and I don’t know what happened,” she tells Seacrest. “I lost all my cast members.”

For the record, Seacrest tells Spelling that Thiessen “never said anything bad about you – I think she likes you a lot.”

Of the friend drama, Spelling adds, “It’s my perception, and nonetheless, it’s a fun story.”

From People

Tori Spelling is a trooper. After an unexpected crowd at her book signing delayed her by three hours, she managed to change dresses in the back of her limo and still make it to her press event at New York City’s High Bar looking flawless.

“I’m wearing Milly, shoes by Christian Louboutin,” she told StyleList cheerfully of her gold-flecked purple cocktail dress and gold pumps. (She paired the same shoes with a classic yellow Diane von Furstenberg number for the signing.)

All the fuss is about “Uncharted TerriTORI,” her third book, which is already a smash success after arriving in stores midweek. (“It’s outselling her second book after just two days,” a positively giddy Simon & Schuster publisher gushed to StyleList over rooftop cocktails.)

Spelling has bounced back after a number of health scares, including food poisoning this week that caused her to miss a slot co-hosting “The View.” And she delayed her “Today” show appearance — in which she discussed contracting swine flu and denied having an eating disorder — by one day,

“This book goes to a much deeper level of me. I find this to be a very inspirational book,” Spelling said. “I know [the readers are] used to my funny stories, and they’re all in there, like when I got called in to jury duty. I showed up and everyone was staring, like, ‘What is she doing here?’”

A friendly clerk, who was obliged to read the potential jurors’ names aloud, told Spelling she’d announce her as “Victoria Spellman” to keep the actress incognito.

“I went back to my seat and I thought, ‘Oh crap! She’s going to say ‘Victoria Spellman’ and people are going to say, ‘Oh God, so you had that name and you had to change it for acting purposes?’” (When she received the numbered tag she had to wear pinned to her shirt for the rest of the afternoon, of course she was assigned 69.)

Spelling, a rushed mother of two, laughed when StyleList asked about her daily beauty regime.

“Literally, I feel like I’m pressed for time, [so I ask] what’s going to make me pop and feel good about myself?” she said. “I curl my eyelashes, I put on mascara, and I put on colored gloss, and I’m out of the house!”

Spelling, along with her husband Dean McDermott and their children Stella and Liam, can be seen on the Oxygen network show “Tori & Dean.”

From Style List

Tori Spelling grew-up on television, and while her two young children are currently doing the same thing on her Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood reality series, she sees it as a positive.

“The reality show has been a blessing for us. It not only shows people how relatable we are, but we also get to stay together as a family — and that’s what is most important. They’re two and three, they’re in a comfortable zone, it’s all family, we have a very small crew,” said Spelling during a Wednesday appearance on NBC’s Today.

“When they get old enough, if they don’t want to be a part of it, the show’s done. I tell them that all the time.”

Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood’s third season recently-concluded its broadcast run on Oxygen but the former Beverly Hills 90210 star has stayed busy promoting her new book — “Uncharted Territori.”

“I thought, ‘Oh, it will just be a book about my new life now evolving, motherhood,’” she said on Today.

“Then actually as I was writing, things started to unfold — my health, reconciliation with my mom, my marriage was on the rocks. So all these things started coming out, and I was like, ‘Wow. I really am in uncharted territory.’”

Spelling’s health had been a hot topic of conversation, as tabloids alleged she was unhealthy and weighed less than 100 pounds. Spelling subsequently denied the rumors via Twitter and explained on Today why she felt it was important to do so.

“I feel like at this point in my life, I’m a role model for a lot of women out there, and I have a daughter of my own,” she said. “So being labeled as too thin, having an eating disorder, it’s definitely something I want to address because it’s not what’s going on.”

“Do you have an eating disorder?” asked Today’s Ann Curry.

“I do not,” replied Spelling. “But I’m labeled it all the time. I think people don’t understand how much it hurts. They understand that it hurts to call people overweight, but when you call someone underweight it’s just as horrible. It really knocks down your self confidence.”

Spelling also recently reconciled with her mom, and she attributed it to her children.

“It’s going great. You really realize when you have kids how important family is. They changed everything,” explained Spelling. “We came to the point where we thought the past is the past, let’s move forward for their sake — and it’s been the best thing I’ve ever done.”

Spelling and husband Dean McDermott renewed their wedding vows last month in a ceremony at a private home overlooking Beverly Hills.

The renewal came after commercials promoting the premiere of Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood showed Spelling stating that she felt McDermott had become “more and more unhappy and angry” and that she missed the way he used to be.

The clip led to talk that the couple was on the verge of divorcing, which Spelling subsequently denied.

“It was a tough year,” Spelling told Curry.

“We never discussed parenting issues, then all of a sudden you have two kids in a short amount of time and you realize you have different views on how to raise them. That’s really where our breakdown of communication started to happen. So it was a hard year, we got back on track, and we really wanted it to be like a rebirth, so we renewed.”

From Reality TV World

Tori Spelling’s wafer-thin frame has been the topic of much debate — and in her new book, TerriTORI, she reveals why she shed so much weight.

According to USA Today, Spelling, 37, blames swine flu, stomach pain, migraines and nerve problems for her weight loss. She says she had to take three rounds of antibiotics that caused severe stomach pain. “I’ve never had a great stomach, but (being ill) just completely tore up my stomach and broke down my immune system, and I’ve basically just been a mess ever since, stomach-wise,” she says. “It’s about rebuilding my immune system.”

Last year, tabloid rumors got so wild that it prompted the 90210 alum to declare last fall on Twitter that she weighs 107 lbs.

“I’m a role model for a lot of women out there, so I hate that they say these things unwarranted, without any research and facts,” she says. “I think it’s doing a disservice to women out there that look up to any celebrity.”

She says she worries “every single day” how the coverage will affect her daughter Stella, now 2, down the road.

“I’m so grateful that she can’t read yet,” she says. “I’m hoping they’ll let up on that by the time she gets old enough to understand, but I’m going to have to explain to her that this is what happens.”

Spelling — who recently renewed her vows with husband Dean McDermott, as Us Weekly exclusively reported – also weighs in on their marriage, admitting that things got rocky last year.

“We had problems that we never thought we would have,” she vaguely says. “We thought we had the perfect relationship. We realized we love each other, but the communication had completely broken down and a lot of our issues, honestly, came from parenting.”

And how are things with her once-estranged mother, Candy?

“We do talk on the phone. We do e-mail. We see each other for dinners. We do the normal stuff I think families do. There’s no strain,” she says. “We’re still building our relationship, of course, but she’s great with the kids (Stella and Liam, 3). She’s completely involved, which is all I ever wanted. We’re just moving forward.”

From US

Tori Spelling finally has everything she thought she wanted — a loving family and a successful career — but it wasn’t always easy. In her new book, “Uncharted TerriTori,” the star opens up about her struggle to balance work, marriage, motherhood and reality TV cameras all while learning to find her happy ending. An excerpt.

A few weeks ago my friend Jacob was flying Virgin American from New York to L.A. As the plane began its final descent into LAX, the cute and obviously gay lead flight attendant made an announcement to the cabin. He said, “Welcome to Los Angeles, birthplace and residence of Tori Spelling.” When my friend reported this story to me via email, I thought it was hilarious, but I also didn’t know exactly what to make of it. I was born in L.A. Fact. I still live here. Fact. But on what grounds is that of common interest to an airplane full of diverse travelers? Is it a compliment? Is it a joke? A little of both? Of all the famous people, of all the actors, of all the tabloid darlings, of all the gay icons (if I can call myself that), why me?

But as someone who produces and stars in a show that follows my daily life for the entertainment of millions of people (holy crap!), I can’t spend too long on questions like that. After “90210” and so many TV movies, my career had slowed, and recently, in my reality show, it has found new life. The name Tori Spelling draws viewers, and it sells magazines, books, a jewelry line, a children’s clothing line. And my name also, apparently, occasionally welcomes certain unsuspecting travelers as they arrive in Los Angeles. So it goes. I’ve come to accept that the small moments of my life, my relationship, my family, my business ventures — usually in edited, broadcast form — are a spectacle. My life is a show. My self is my business. My name is my brand. It’s a weird way to live, and maybe I’ll never get used to it, but at the same time business is booming. My life has changed dramatically in the past several years. I married Dean; we moved several times; we had two children; we created a show that has gone into its fifth season on the air. I have love. I have a family. I have a home. I have work. It’s all I ever wished for. But trying to be a perfect wife, mother, and mini mogul has its challenges, especially if, like me, you want to be perfect at all of them at the same time.

Turns out I’m officially a workaholic. I think I’ve always been a bit more driven than anybody realized, myself included. I have ideas. I want to try new things. I see business opportunities. The difference is that before “Tori & Dean” was a success, nobody ever cared what harebrained scheme I was dreaming up. Nobody expected anything of me. Nobody took me seriously. Nobody would have wanted to partner with me. I didn’t have the means to make any of it come to pass. Now I have the power. Now there’s no excuse not to act on a big idea. Now I can back it up. I have a show. I have two successful lines. I have two bestselling books. I own a well-known brand. (You know, Tori Spelling. Who’d a thunk it?)
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I was poised to be a workaholic. In the seven years between “90210” and “Tori & Dean,” my acting work came and went. Being an underemployed actor as I was puts the fear in you. I am nobody. I’ll never work again. If I can just get a break I’ll make the most of it, I swear. I developed a strike-while-the-iron’s-hot mentality. I don’t want to miss a single opportunity.

I’m finally in a position where ideas that I have can actually blossom into businesses. When I shop for new bedding, I can’t help thinking, Maybe I could do a line of Hollywood Regency-inspired shams. I spend a day doing crafts with the kids and start fantasizing about developing a kids’ crafts show or magazine sharing the joys of homemade play dough and pipe cleaner animals. I cook dinner and envision a recipe book with my nanny’s special shepherd’s pie. I hobble out of an event, barefoot, with four-inch heels in hand, and fantasize about Tori Spelling–branded disposable micro flip-flops. (Somebody please run with that.)

I want to do a show with Dean where we put together dream weddings on a budget: it’s on! There’s an opportunity for me to do the talk show I’ve always dreamed of? So what if it’s all day, every day, forty-four weeks a year, I want to do it! My agent’s worried I’m going to drop dead. Can we clone me? I wonder. Nah, the clone wouldn’t do it right. Yeah, I got the whole workaholic package, which means I’m so completely incapable of delegating that I couldn’t even delegate to my own clone. People talk all the time about leaving work behind at the end of the day, about how important it is to draw a dividing line between your job and your life. But my job is to be Tori Spelling. I can’t exactly take a break. In some ways I feel like I’m turning into my father. Dad was a workaholic. He was productive, work was lucrative, but it never stopped. When I was little I hardly noticed. I thought every father came home long after dinner and baths were over, just in time to kiss his children good night.

Even late in his career, my father never stopped caring about every detail of every show. On weekends he would come home with a briefcase full of scripts. We’d go out to the pool together, I’d click open the briefcase, and we’d sit next to each other reading. He dog-eared the pages where he had notes, just as I now do with scripts. By the time he was finished with a script, every single page would be folded over and every line of the script would be rewritten. When we first started “90210” he even brought home Polaroids of the wardrobe options for Brenda and Brandon. He couldn’t delegate either.

Ultimately I feel like my father died because he could no longer work. When he stopped working he went quickly downhill. There was no adjusting to a new focus and pace at that age. He didn’t know how to just be.

Twitter — the way I use Twitter, is a perfect example of how it never stops, how I never stop. Sometimes Dean is sleeping next to me in bed while I tweet until one a.m. I tweet what I’ve prepared for the kids’ holiday parties at school. I post what movie I watched that night. I check to see how many followers I have. I check to see how many followers Brooke Burke and Denise Richards have (they’re in the big leagues, each with over a million followers). I’m obsessed with how many followers I have and what makes them decide to follow me or to stop following me. If I talk about cute things the kids are doing, my followers drop off. If I retweet news items, people sign on. If I don’t tweet for a day, I gain a hundred followers. When I posted that I watched “Paranormal Activity,” I gained fifty-six followers. Why, why, why?

I tell myself I’m doing it for the fans and for my business; I’m building my brand. And I do use Twitter that way. For Little Maven, my kids’ clothing line, I went on Twitter to do a model search. People posted photos of their children to Twitter, and I selected models for our look book — a catalogue for retail buyers — and website. My “followers” know that it’s me looking at the pictures. I’m the one who’s picking their kids. They know that I’m not doing a celebrity endorsement, that I’m actually at the helm of my business. And they also know that I’m the one who’s dropping my kids off at school. Because I tweet about it afterwards. It’s kind of like I’m stalking myself, but it doesn’t feel creepy. It makes me feel connected to people. If I’m going to be a brand, it’s nice to feel like people really know me. But I also see how my obsessive twittering can be unhealthy. Nothing is private, nothing is sacred. Dean is asleep next to me, and I should be sleeping too. I’m more stressed than I’ve ever been in my life.

I haven’t found a good balance, and (when he’s awake) it doesn’t sit well with Dean. A couple of nights ago Dean came into the kitchen and told me he’d run a bubble bath for me — an overt effort to get me to relax. Liam and Stella were running around the kitchen, waiting for me to make them dinner. Dean said, “Don’t worry, I’ve got it.” Dean is perfectly capable of making dinner for the kids. Nonetheless, I started pulling out the broccoli, rice, and hot dogs. Just to get him started. Dean stood there staring at me. “What are you doing?” he said, “I just said I’ve got it.” But I couldn’t stop myself.

I’m not just controlling when it comes to the kids. I came into the kitchen the other night to find Dean, who is self-sufficient in all things, eating a dinner he’d made for himself. When I saw him sitting there, alone at the table, I felt deflated. “I was going to do that for you,” I told him. I wanted to make dinner for him. I wanted us to eat together even if I got home too late. I want to be able to do everything. Then I’m resentful of having to do everything.

From MSNBC

Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott paid a visit to talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres, and continued to clear up those pesky rumors which are claiming their is trouble in McDermott-Spelling paradise, reports Extra. The mom-of-two reported that the couple are ‘so together,” and added, “They’re [the media] seeing clips from the show this season. I think this season we kind of delve into our relationship. We’ve been together fours years.”

McDermott confirmed the couples solidity, adding, “There is no divorce in our future, at all.”

90210 actress/best-selling author Spelling and Canadian actor Dean McDermott are parents to 3-year-old son Liam, and 1-year-old daughter Stella, while McDermott has one child, son Jack, from his previous marriage to Canadian television presenter/chef Mary Jo Eustace. The actress recently revealed that she would like to expand the Spelling-McDermott brood, saying, “We would definitely like more kids, but I think right now we’re just focusing on the two, kind of you know getting them out of diapers.”

A new episode of the couples’ reality show Home Sweet Hollywood airs Monday night on Oxygen.

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