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We chatted with Tori Spelling at Macy's Herald Square in NYC—she was there to help celebrity makeup artist Mally Roncal kick off a program to teach women how to use Q-tips to avoid makeup meltdowns. With Spelling's years in showbiz, we figured she knows her way around a makeup bag. Here's what she shared:

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There, I said it. One of my friends on Facebook recently admitted to liking the new Miley Cyrus song, “The Climb.” I have a lot of respect for people who willingly admit potentially embarrassing truths, so I took her lead and decided to throw props to Tori Spelling, especially in the wake of…

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It's no secret that Aaron Spelling's wife and daughter, Candy and Tori, do not get along. They have been estranged for years, bickering through tabloids, memoirs and even Tori's TV show, "NoTORIous." Candy often tries to come off as the martyr, saying she doesn't understand…

Tori Spelling Keeps It Real

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As a girl, Tori Spelling traveled in a luxury railroad car attached to an Amtrak for a family vacation. (Her dad, TV producer Aaron Spelling, was afraid to fly.) One Halloween, Dynasty costume designer Nolan Miller made her an elaborate Marie Antoinette getup. And through it all—underneath the white sausage-roll wig—she craved a normal childhood. Of course, now 36, with her own 2-year-old son, Liam, and 1-year-old daughter, Stella, Spelling admits "there are a lot of variables to normal, especially in Hollywood," which is what inspired her to write her second memoir, Mommywood (Simon Spotlight Entertainment). Admittedly, her kids have uniquely showbiz-y lives, and not simply because Mom and Dad—actor Dean McDermott—have been paparazzi bait since 2005, when they ended their previous marriages to be together. Their house is rigged for filming Oxygen's Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood. And sometimes Spelling, who also designs a kids' clothing line, simply can't help herself and replicates a few fairy-tale aspects of her own girlhood. Cookie went poolside to get the details.