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Summary

For millions of people around the world, Carol Brady is synonymous with  motherhood, but growing up as the youngest of ten children in rural  Indiana in the aftermath of the Great Depression, Florence Henderson  lived a life quite different from that of the quintessential TV mom she  later played on television. Florence's father was a dirt-poor  tobacco tenant farmer who was nearly fifty years old when he married  Florence's twenty-five-year-old mother, and was nearly seventy when  Florence was born. Florence's childhood was full of deprivation and  abandonment. Her father was an alcoholic at a time when there was no  rehab or help for the disease. Their home rarely had electricity or  running water. When she was twelve, Florence's mother left the family to  work in Cleveland and never returned.Florence opens up about her  childhood, as well as the challenges she's faced as an adult, including  stage fright, postpartum depression, her extramarital affairs, divorce,  her hearing loss, and heart problems. She writes with honesty and wisdom  of how her faith and ability to survive has brought her through rough  times to a life of profound joy and purpose.

Duration: about 9 hours (08:47:47)
Publishing date: 2011-09-20; Unabridged; Copyright Year: — Copyright Statment: —

• Biography & Memoirs
• The Arts
• Humor