I debuted my favorite dress—with the patriotic eagle decal—on The Tonight Show and have worn it every July 4th since
Two childhood pals, me and Joey Lawrence, playing make-believe on Melissa & Joey in 2011
My beautiful boys! Me and Mark with Mason, Brady, and Tucker in 2013
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Melissa Joan Hart is an actor/producer/director who made her first national commercial at age four. She currently costars in the ABC Family comedy series Melissa & Joey. She made her first big splash in the title role of Nickelodeon’s Clarissa Explains It All. Both in the United States and abroad, Melissa is perhaps best known for her starring role in the Showtime movie–turned-network series Sabrina, the Teenage Witch. Melissa has appeared on Dancing with the Stars, That ’70s Show, and Law & Order: SVU, among others. Her production company, Hartbreak Films, has produced projects including Sabrina, Melissa & Joey, and a number of television movies and feature films.
MELISSA EXPLAINS IT ALL. Copyright © 2013 by Melissa Joan Hart with Kristina Grish. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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Cover design by Danielle Fiorella
Cover photograph by Jeff Katz
The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Hart, Melissa Joan, 1976–
Melissa explains it all: tales from my abnormally normal life / by Melissa Joan Hart. — First edition
pages cm
ISBN 978-1-250-03283-6 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-250-03284-3 (e-book)
1. Hart, Melissa Joan, 1976– 2. Television actors and actresses—United States—Biography. I. Title.
PN2287.H29A3 2013
791.45'028'092—dc23
[B]
2013020800
eISBN 9781250032843
First Edition: October 2013
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