Lynn Spears Book No Bombshell
Lynn Spears, the Mom Still Close to Britney Spears and Jamie Lynn Despite Detailing Their Lives in New Book
Famous Family Tell-All Books
It appears that Spears's book will not shatter that closeness the way some other tell-all books by celebrities' family members have.
Lee, the editor at US Weekly, has seen these celebrity tell-all books, like Nancy Aniston's 1999 "From Mother and Daughter to Friends: A Memoir" about daughter Jennifer, come and go, usually after a relative is cut off financially or emotionally from his or her famous family member who is the family breadwinner.
"Some kind of estrangement happens," Lee said, "and the sibling or parents gets offered an insane amount of money [by a publisher]. They come out with a book, and the celebrity's publicist releases a statement saying they are disappointed, it's all lies.
"The only way a celebrity's relative could write a book about the celebrity and not totally destroy the relationship is by having that celebrity's blessing in a big way," he added.
In the case of the Anistons, the actress was apparently so angry with her mother for writing about her appearance before her nose job and other intimate details that she excluded her from her wedding to Brad Pitt.
When talk show host Oprah Winfrey found out her father, Vernon, was shopping around a memoir about raising his famous daughter, she told reporters she was "stunned."
"The book was stopped and went away," said Sarah Nelson, editor of Publisher's Weekly.
Madonna's brother, Christopher Ciccone, published a tell-all memoir, "Life with My Sister Madonna," in July.
"It's basic envy," psychoanalyst and family therapist Bethany Marshall told ABCNews.com about why Ciccone might have written the book about his famous sister. "When we feel envious, we want to destroy the object of our envy and bring them down, so we don't have that reminder that we are missing out on something we want."
What's missing besides the closeness he once shared with his sister is the income Ciccone once earned over two decades as a designer, choreographer, director and yes man for Madonna.
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