Melissa Explains It All: Tales From My Abnormally Normal Life (35 page)

One of my favorite commercial shoots, for Life Savers, 1987

Me, Mom, and Calista Flockhart at John’s Pizzeria on Bleecker Street, sharing a pie, 1989

One of the last photos taken of Mom and Dad together, on the cruise before they called it quits

Just a few New York child actors hanging out: Macaulay Culkin, me, Wendy and Lacey Chabert, my sister Liz, Eden Riegel, and J. D. Daniels (on the floor), 1991

Kicking back in Clarissa’s eclectic bedroom

The Darlings, my first TV family

TV Sweethearts Club: (clockwise from top left) Tia Mowry, Andrea Barber, me, Tatyana Ali, Tamera Mowry, Jenna von Oy, and Jodie Sweetin

Climbing through “Sam’s” window in my Marlo Thomas look for the last episode of
Clarissa

A night of many firsts: me with my first boyfriend, 1992

My “graduation” ceremony on the Orlando set of
Clarissa

You say attic, I say penthouse: the NYC bedroom I shared with Trish

My Hollywood Hills bachelorette pad, where some serious partying took place

Hanging with dreamy Ryan Reynolds on the Vancouver set of Showtime’s
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
original movie