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Lucky Me: My Life With - And Without - My Mom, Shirley MacLaine by Sachi Parker with Frederick Stroppel


Born in Los Angeles, raised in Tokyo, and schooled across Europe, Sachi Parker had already lead an eventful life before she turned 18. Add to the mix a secretive father with an explosive temper and a Hollywood icon for a mother and you have enough stories to fill a book.

And that's exactly what she's done.

Lucky Me chronicles Sachi's adventurous and often unhinged life, beginning at the age of 2 when her mother, screen legend Shirley MacLaine, put her on a plane to Japan to go and live with her father. Attending schools in Tokyo and being raised mostly by her Japanese governess while her father enjoyed the perks of having a long-distance open marriage, her summers were spent on star-studded film sets with her mother in sunny L.A.

You could almost begin to feel envious at the incredible and diverse start to Parker's life, getting the opportunity to experience different cultures at such a young age. However, Sachi's quick to point out how lonely and confusing the majori

Lucky Me by Sachi Parker – Book Review

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Lucky Me: My Life With – And Without – My Mom, Shirley MacLaine is an “OMG” book of revelations from the daughter of an A-list celebrity. Sachi has not had a life of abundance, as one might expect when someone is the offspring of a celebrated entertainer. As she reveals in this book, her life was filled with loneliness and unbelievable experiences.

 

If the story of Sachi’s father isn’t enough to make you say “OMG” then nothing is. Sachi spent the first part of her life being raised by her father who lived in Japan. Shirley MacLaine and Steve Parker had an “open” marriage. Sachi spend only a few months a year with her mother. While in Japan she was brought up the Japanese way of not making waves. She was sent to boarding schools then had to work to earn a living because after graduation from High School she was told she was on her own.

Okay, back to the story of her father. He was a conman pure and simple. But the con he put over on MacLaine is utterly unbelievable. This man lived the life of luxury with

Shirley MacLaine Chose Career Over Me, Daughter Says

Feb. 1, 2013— -- "Mommie Dearest" is the classic movie about what it was like growing up the daughter of a Hollywood star. The star, Joan Crawford, came to be seen as the epitome of the mother no one would want.

Now the spotlight is on the parenting skills of another Hollywood icon, Shirley MacLaine.

Watch the Full Story on "20/20: Stars, Scars and Showbiz Kids" TONIGHT at 10 p.m. ET

MacLaine's lookalike daughter, Sachi Parker, talks about her childhood in the book "Lucky Me: My Life With -- and Without -- My Mom, Shirley MacLaine." Parker says MacLaine chose being a movie star over being a mother.

Now starring in the hit series "Downton Abbey," MacLaine made her first splash as a singer, dancer and actress on Broadway. She went on to win an Oscar for her portrayal of a mother who has a love-hate relationship with her daughter in "Terms of Endearment." Similar roles followed, as in "Postcards from the Edge."

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