Tori Spelling on Cloud Nine

Aug. 6, 2007 — -- Starting a business isn't easy — especially when you've got a camera crew following you around. Throw in a new spouse, an infant and a former television star and you've got the makings of the quintessential reality show.

Tori Spelling was the loveable Donna Martin from the iconic '90s show "Beverly Hills: 90210." Now she stars as herself in the Oxygen network reality show "Tori & Dean: Inn Love 2," in which Spelling and her husband, Dean McDermott, struggle to launch their bed and breakfast business.

"It's the anti-Hollywood," Spelling said, explaining that the bed and breakfast is a beautiful home in the countryside.

She said she's excited about not having to leave her husband or baby to go to work. It's a lifestyle very becoming on Spelling, but very different from where she grew up — in a 56,000-square-foot mansion.

Spelling stands by the claim that her show is about as real as reality television gets.

"This is the first time I've had to take care of myself. I'm at everyone's beck and call," Spelling said. "In my dream world, in my eyes, we'd have a bed and breakfast. We'd pick the furniture, have cool hors d'oeuvres and happy hour. Then reality hits you: I have to wait on people 12 hours a day."

And at Spelling's bed and breakfast, they stand by the mantra that the customer is always right. So when some of her guests wanted her to marry them, she became ordained over the Internet.

"Now you can call me Rev. Tori, but we also figured out that having events here is the best way to make profits. And now I can do even more weddings!" Spelling said.

Not only has Spelling added reverend to her resume lately, but she has also taken on the most difficult job of all — motherhood. She said the most difficult thing is juggling motherhood and running a 24-hour business.

"People always scared me to death saying, 'Your life will change forever,' but our lives haven't changed at all, except he's enhanced us," she said.

Baby Liam has not only enhanced her nuclear family, but her extended family as well. She said Liam's birth had brought her closer to her mother, with whom she was feuding after her father's death.

"It's great having a baby. They always bring family together. Every time she holds him, she's like, 'You never forget,'" Spelling said of her rekindled relationship with her mother.

With her happy marriage, her new son and her fun reality show, Spelling said she is happier than ever.

"If this isn't the happiest I've ever been, I don't know what happy is," she said. "This is the light at the end of the tunnel. Being up here is really peaceful. It's cleared my mind."