Minka Kelly Opens Up About 'Chaotic' Childhood & Wishing Her Mother Was Something She Wasn't

Minka Kelly is opening up about her personal life.

The 42-year-old Friday Night Lights alum is releasing her memoir, Tell Me Everything, on May 2, and she’s opening up about her relationship with her mother.

When she was growing up, her single mother Maureen couldn’t afford rent for their Los Angeles apartment, and performed as an exotic dancer for money.

“If she made a lot of money that night, we’d go grocery shopping at 2 a.m. I spent a lot of my youth wishing my mom was something she wasn’t, wishing she was like the other moms. I only was able to really appreciate how special she was when I got much older. In fact when it was maybe a little too late,” she told People.

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Her mother would go on to pass away of cancer in 2008.

“My childhood was colorful and chaotic, unstable and inconsistent, unpredictable and hard a lot of the times, but the silver lining is that it made me a very adaptable person,” she went on to explain.

“My mom was on her own for a very long time so she was just surviving and doing her best and maybe not totally well-equipped to have and raise a child. But she did it anyway because she wanted me and she loved me to the best of her ability.”

In the book, the 42-year-old actress also spoke about having an abortion as a teenager, her relationship with Taylor Kitsch on the Friday Night Lights set, going through IVF with an unnamed boyfriend and suffering a miscarriage. Click here for all the details from the book.