Mean Baby is Selma Blair’s 2022 memoir, a candid account of her childhood, addiction, career and the multiple sclerosis diagnosis that reorganized her life. Memoirs by public figures with chronic illness carry a particular weight: they convert private management — medication, fear, adaptation — into public understanding. Blair’s book is part of why her current difficulties are met by many readers with context rather than cruelty; she had already told the public, in her own words, how hard the managing can be.
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