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Meredith Baxter is a beloved and iconic television actress, best know for her role as the mother in the series Family Ties. Her warmth, humor, and brilliant smile made her one of the most popular women on television, with millions of viewers following her on the small screen each week. Yet her success masked a tumultuous personal story and a harrowing private life. For the first time, Baxter is ready to share her incredible highs, (working with Robert Redford, Doris Day, Lana Turner, and the cast of Family Ties), and lows (a thorny relationship with her mother, difficult marriages involving domestic violence, a bout with breast cancer), finally revealing the woman behind the image. She speaks candidly of her journey, from her childhood in Hollywood, to her three failed marriages, and her enormously popular role as hippie mom, Elyse Keaton, on Family Ties, to her alcoholism and life-changing decision to take her last drink in 1990. She has now emerged from her experiences with the renewed self-assurance, poise, and understanding that have enabled her to find a loving, respectful relationship with Nancy Locke, and to speak about it openly. Told with insight, wit, and disarming frankness, Untied is the eye-opening and inspiring life of an actress, a woman, and a mother who has come into her own.
Paperback, 304 Pages, Orig. Publ. 2011, This Ed. Publ. 2012
Author: Meredith Baxter