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The Shopping Problem

[Blind Gossip] If you are out taking advantage of those post-Christmas sales and you happen to run into this TV actress shopping up a storm, you might be jealous of the sheer volume of her purchases.

Don’t be.

We’ve talked about her financial woes before.

You see, although she grew up in a giant house with every imaginable luxury, she has done a really poor job managing her money as an adult.

She would earn some money and then spend it as soon as she got it.

She would run up sky-high credit card debt and find herself unable to pay it down.

And now, even though her TV project is over and her tour was a failure… she is still spending, spending, spending!

There seems to be some compulsive behavior behind it all.

She shops compulsively. She could have ten of something, but if she sees it in a store, she has to buy another one. A lot of the time she justifies it by saying it’s for someone else (like her kids) even though they don’t want it or need it.

What happens to all that stuff?

They have moved a few times in the past few years. They have several storage facilities where they put all their stuff. A lot of things in there are brand new and have never been used.

Her mother has bailed her out several times, but she may be taking a new approach.

She’s going to ask [Daughter] to go into therapy. Not credit counseling therapy, but psychological therapy.

Supposedly, it’s not because Mom can’t afford to bail Daughter out of her financial mess. It’s because she recognizes that the core of the problem might not actually be money!

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Daughter:

Mother:

[Optional] Why do you think the Daughter behaves this way?

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  7. Debidoo says

    Daughter =Tori Spelling
    Mother = Candy Spelling
    Rich people problems! Her Mom is worth $600 million dollars. She can’t take it with her, but she should have her daughter get some therapy… besides retail therapy! I think that Tori has always been a poor little rich girl. She lacked for nothing while her doting father Aaron was alive and she knew how to play him to get what she wanted. I thing Candy was jealous of the relationship and turned against Tori.

  11. GayleStorm says

    Tori Spelling
    Candy Spelling

    *putting on my armchair psychiatrist hat*
    I believe that Tori Spelling never had a good mother/ daughter relationship with her mother. There doesn’t seem to be a good bond there. I know women like this. The lack of a good maternal bond seems to screw them up.
    Tori has a huge void that needs to be filled. Thus, her compulsive need to procreate or her compulsive need to acquire material items. She definitely needs some very good psychotherapy.

  12. bunnypenny9 says

    Tori Spelling- another tv project cancelled and her “talk show tour” didn’t work out
    Mother: Candy Spelling

  15. Searlait says

    Tori Spelling
    Candy Spelling
    I suspect her parents substituted materials things for love and attention when she was a child and that she does it to fill a void.

  17. bec215d says

    Poor little rich girl Tori. Doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see she was an ugly duckling in a beauty-obsessed town, and buying tons of “things” is an effort to fill a void that no objects can: fear of rejection/deep insecurity. Crazy it took this long for her mom to realize she needs help, not money.

    Her husband’s a piece of work …

  22. LAmariposa says

    Daughter: Tori Spelling
    Mother: Candy

    Optional: Spoiled, addiction, mental illness… take your pick.

  27. High Steppa says

    Tori and Candy Spelling. I think she buys to fill a void of some kind. Whatever she buys, it’s never enough – she has to have more. Professional therapy would be helpful.

  40. TeaDrinker says

    Tori Spelling
    Candy Spelling
    Optional: I’ve longed suspected she has a shopping addiction which would require therapy to overcome.

  41. FiyahHotFlashy says

    Daughter: Tori Spelling

    Mother: Candy Spelling

    [Optional] Why do you think the Daughter behaves this way? I don’t think she recovered from her dad’s death. She was a “daddy’s girl” and no very close to her mom

  45. magnoliamama says

    Daughter: Tori Spelling
    Mother: Candy Spelling
    Why? It’s an addiction. She’s filling a hole in her life with material things.

  47. theotherwoman says

    Candy Spelling and Tori Spelling
    Bc she grew up without a care in the world and is having trouble living within her means I have a shopping problem too but I usually return things once I see it was an impulsive buy. .

  48. charity60 says

    Daughter- Tori Spelling of course
    Mother- Candy Spelling
    Optional- Grand sense of entity. Daddy did her no favors by putting her on his shows. They should have made her own money from the beginning. Candy is absolutely right…she needs help.

  50. traherne says

    Tori and Candi Spelling

    Compulsive behaviour. She needs to realise she has a problem and seek help. I don’t think she’s a bad person, just incredibly insecure and immature.

  54. Neener_Neener says

    Tori Spelling and her mother Candy.
    Tori had a 6000 sq foot closet in the former Spelling mansion. I don’t know if she’s actually compulsive, or if it’s a lifetime habit that’s really hard to break.

  55. Christina X says

    Tori Spelling

    When I was in high school in the late ‘80s, I remember reading something about her in Seventeen magazine. It said that she had one of everything from Express in every single color that it was made in. That always stuck with me for some reason.
    I guess if you grow up with immense wealth, it always stays with you in some way. Perhaps owning tons of clothes is hers.

  56. wareagle says

    Tori Spelling. She clearly has an addiction problem that’s no different than one to drugs or alcohol. I had a friend in college whose mom secretly took out a $100,000 loan in her name to feed her secret shopping addiction. It destroyed my friend’s credit (she only discovered what her mom had done when she did one of those free credit checks) and she had to sue her own mother. It’s a real psychological problem, and makes me sad for Tori’s kids

  57. deepsigh says

    Tori and Candy Spelling.

    I think it makes Tori feel better temporarily. Shopping and spending can be an escape. I sort of feel bad for her. Aaron and a Candy lived a life with an emphasis on material goods and outrageous displays of wealth. She derives
    self worth from that and now that it is gone….it’s a hard come down.

  58. The Big D says

    Tori Spelling
    Candy Spelling
    I don’t know why she acts this way-it is not just growing up wealthy she has made and lost all of the money she made acting. I think mom needs to let her really hit bottom although therapy is a great idea but she still needs to be held accountable for her actions.

  62. kittypryde777 says

    Tori Spelling & Candy Spelling

    Because she got everything she wanted as a child and was not taught to be careful with spending Daddy’s money.

  66. PieLies says

    Tori Spelling
    Candy Spelling

    Optional: Needing attention from the Deaner maybe? Maybe she should try baking some pie as therapy.

  67. amagod121 says

    Tori Spelling
    Candy Spelling

    I think that Candy may be onto something. No idea what’s at the root of Tori’s compulsion though. Possibly an addiction that she has, and hasn’t dealt with.

  68. Jayzzzzzz says

    Tori Spelling
    She was never perceived as the “pretty” one but was perceived as the “rich” one. At this point it definitely seems like compulsive behavior. Her dad was right not to give her too much money – she’d have spent it all by now.

  75. kmInBOS18 says

    Tori Spelling
    Candy Spelling
    She behaves this way because every material thing she was given as a child was associated with the feeling of love. Everything revolves around material and money.

  78. Sleepyandconfused says

    Tori spelling
    Candy Spelling

    Not satisfied with her life and shopping gives her a few minutes of joy

  79. ILUVCA4evr says

    Daughter: This has Tori $pelling written all over it

    Mother: Candy Spelling

    [Optional] I think she actually feels unloved and the only way she can feel it is by buying, buying, buying. So she feels like she has more. I also think she regrets a lot of the choices she’s made in her life and this is how she compensates. She’s needed serious therapy for A LONG TIME.

  82. SeijnSei says

    Daughter: Tori Spelling

    Mother: Candy Spelling

    Why? How she grew up. She doesn’t know anything BUT stupid amounts of money and luxury.