This Minka Kelly Cosmo cover has been staring at me from the Cosmo promotional email for days, but I only just got around to reading some excerpts from the interview. Can I just say something? I?ve really started to like Minka Kelly. I think she?s cool, and she comes across as a lot smarter than the average starlet. I think she comes across as a street-smart girl because her childhood was pretty funky. Unlike all of the people who had relatively normal, well-adjusted childhoods and uneventful school experiences - those same people who try to convince us that they were always tortured and misunderstood and bullied - Minka?s childhood actually seems kind of rough. And in the occasional interview, Minka will give a glimpse into just how hard it was for her without coming out and laying on some massive pity party. Her mom was a stripper who loved to have a good time. Her mom would take her grocery shopping after mom came home from work early in the morning. Her mom thought they were friends. See? Rough.
Mom doesn?t always know best. In Minka Kelly?s case, she often had to be the responsible one growing up. In the October issue of Cosmopolitan magazine (as excerpted by the Daily Mail) Derek Jeter?s 31-year-old ex-girlfriend opens up about the ?pretty complicated? relationship she had with her stripper mother, Maureen Kelly prior to her death in 2008.
?She was 5?11?,? the Charlie?s Angels star explains. ?Legs up to her ears, gorgeous. She got along on that for as long as she could.?
Kelly says her mother would sometimes wake her up in the middle of the night when she got home from working at the strip club. The mother-daughter duo would then go to the supermarket shopping, and her mother wanted to take her to Payless to buy shoes.
?That was like our big Friday,? she recalls. ?She would want me to skip school, ?Let?s go spend some money!?? I was like ?No, Mom, I?ve gotta go to school!??
Kelly?s mother chose to raise her daughter as a single parent. The actress? father, onetime Aerosmith guitarist Rick Dufay, ?wanted to try the family thing,? but Kelly says her mom ?was too busy having fun.?
?It wasn?t like he didn?t want to be part of our lives,? the Friday Night Lights star adds.
?I didn?t know how to appreciate what good friends we were,? Kelly admits. ?Because I just wanted her to be my mom.?
Sadly, three years ago, Kelly?s mother died of colon cancer. ?That?s detectable,? Kelly says. ?Talk about being reckless and not paying attention to your body.?
Fortunately, the two made peace with one another before it was too late. ?By the time she passed I was holding her,? Kelly says. ?I was with her until her last breath. We made it.?
Sad, right? It?s a wonder Minka is so well-adjusted. Her mom sounded like a really fun person to hang out with, though. Crazy.
Meanwhile, it?s pretty much established at this point that Minka dumped Derek Jeter for her costar, Ramon Rodriguez. They were photographed together (on-set) two seconds after Minka and Derek split, and even People Magazine and all of the more ass-kissy tabloids are saying that Minka and Ramon are a thing now.
Photos courtesy of Cosmo, Fame.
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Written by Kaiser
Posted in Minka Kelly
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12 Responses to ?Minka Kelly?s stripper mom wasn?t very maternal, but she sounds like a good time?
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I used to work with Minka when she was in Albuquerque, NM. She is very smart and very sweet as well. I remember one time, she was hanging decorations on the ceiling, standing on a desk to reach it. I was watching her and I thought to look around and every single person in the room was in rapt attention, men and women.
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she?s gorgeous, and that?s so lovely and heartbreaking at the same time, how she was there for her mom until the end(?we made it?). That?s a lot to go through, and I respect her for being honest about her childhood and upbringing without exploiting it for self promotion.
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Funny how ?round? parents have ?square? kids, so to speak.
I?m sure that there?s a TON of stuff that she?s keeping to herself. Not to generalize, but I will anyway, many strippers have had very traumatic, abusive childhoods which contaminate their adult lives - drug and alcohol usage, promiscuity, inability to form functional relationships, etc. Glad to see that Minka?s life took a different direction.
Still wondering about the plane temper tantrum though?..
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That?s good she was able to see a different path for herself. I like her too.
Though she?s already involved with a costar on a show that?s just getting started? Bad idea.
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Loved her in ?Friday Night Lights?. She talked about her childhood, and dad, in a TV interview 2-3 yrs ago(Leno? Letterman?) and was terrific. Very matter-of-fact, not playing any card & not a hint of drama or whine. She has an innate dignity.
She seems very well grounded and likely to make good decisions for her own well-being & career.
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She is one overrated actress. People overcome tough growing up situations all the time. I don?t think the comparision to Linnocent is fair (not that I?m defending Lohan by any chance), but Minka is facing celebrity life in her 30s. She?s just average to me, and this whole ?my mom was a stripper? thing, she?s been using it for a while now, it?s not news and I always get the feeling that she wants people to feel sorry for her.
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I think Minka is one of the most gorgeous girls ever ? natural 100% too!
I?m puzzled as to why Kaiser thinks Minka?s mom ?sounds like a good time?? Um, having a fu**ed-up parent isn?t a good time for any child.
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Children with irresponsible parents often become the parent. I once had a 5th grade student whose mom was a go-go dancer. The girl was smart, mature and about as responsible as a 10 year old could be. She would sometimes miss school to care for her baby brother.
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@ Missy.
I didn?t know Minka was from Albuquerque? I live there, as well. I don?t know too much about her, but she is gorgeous!
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a lot us us kids who grew up in difficult situations end up OK. I like her, she seems very grounded and real. And good on her for ditching Jeter.
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Very beautiful
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Celebrities like her and Vanessa Manillo (and many more) have these rough upbringings are are perfectly well adjusted, and then we have Linnocent. Go figure.
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