Crawford's oldest child, Christina, alleged that her mother physically and emotionally abused her and Christopher in her 1978 tell-all memoir Mommie Dearest. (The book was ultimately told on ...

(Crawford died in 1977.) “She had learned how to be a dancer, she had learned how to be an actress, she had learned how to be a star,” Christina writes of her mother in Mommie Dearest.

Christina Crawford opened up about the film’s famous title, saying that, “‘Mommie dearest’ was a term of enslavement. If we just called her ‘Mother’ or ‘Mommy,’ she corrected us ...

Crawford, 59, shares daughter Kaia, 23, and son Presley, 25, with husband Rande Gerber, businessman who used to be a model. Both kids have followed in their mother’s footsteps on the catwalk, working ...