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

Oxygen has announced Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood’s third season, the fifth overall edition of its Tori & Dean reality series starring Tori Spelling and her husband Dean McDermott, will premiere Monday, April 5 at 10PM ET/PT.

While Tori & Dean’s first two installments — dubbed Tori & Dean: Inn Love — followed the couple as they ran Chateau La Rue, a leased bed-and-breakfast in Fallbrook, CA, the last two editions of Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood has followed the couple as they returned to Tinseltown to make a new home with their two young children.

The new season will continue to follow the family in their everyday life and include footage from the first ever Spelling-McDermott cross-country family road trip.

Oxygen renewed Tori & Dean for a fifth season last October after Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood’s second-season was the network’s most-watched season ever among total viewers and in the Adults 18-49 and Women 18-49 demographics.

“Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood,” season five, will debut on Mondays this spring, with the new night serving as an anchor for the network’s expansion into a second night of original programming and into the premiere of “Dance Your Ass Off,” season two, which will air Mondays beginning this summer. The returning hit series” Bad Girls Club” continues its current season on Tuesdays, beginning January 5 at 10pm ET/PT, offering all-new episodes.

“Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood”

Returning for a fifth season is the popular and record-breaking reality series “Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood,” premiering this spring. In the new season, Tori and Dean will offer an even closer look into their family life and at their own relationship, which will include a first-ever Spelling-McDermott cross-country family road trip. When the season kicks off, fans will be treated to a fun-filled, bumpy ride while Tori and Dean take turns at the wheel. Last season, “Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood” became Oxygen’s most watched season among A18-49, W18-49 and total viewers. In addition, the series finale marked another Oxygen first, delivering over one million viewers in the key A18-49 demo.

Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott created the series and executive produce the series along with Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato of World of Wonder Productions. Richard Courtney and Robert Sizemore serve as co-executive producers.

Oxygen Media announced Wednesday it has ordered a fifth season of the reality TV series “Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood.”

The show — starring actress Tori Spelling and husband Dean McDermott — is to return to the air in the spring, said Amy Introcaso-Davis, senior vice president of original programming and development for Oxygen Media.

“Tori and Dean have become the Hollywood family next door,” Introcaso-Davis said in a statement. “We’re excited to bring back the adorable family that so many Oxygen viewers love to follow.”

“This has given us the amazing opportunity to reach our fans who have become our friends in such an intimate and unique way. It’s an honor to bring our living room into theirs,” said Spelling, the mother of two toddlers.

From UPI

Quick! Name what you would most want for Christmas from Reality TV Land.

No, the Kardashian girls aren’t entering a convent. Try again.

Um, no, Spencer and Heidi haven’t been sent on a do-or-die mission to Antarctica.

OK, we’ll spill: Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott will be coming back in spring 2010 to your TV set with a new season of their reality show, Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood, on Oxygen. This time they’ll taking the clan on the road –- minus Tori’s estranged mom, of course.

“This has given us the amazing opportunity to reach our fans who have become our friends in such an intimate and unique way. It’s an honor to bring our living room into theirs,” Tori said.

Since it’s a road show, maybe they mean that literally!

From People