Making a Miracle

Features

• Cover Type: Mass Market Paperback with 432 pages
• Published by: Pocket Star August 28, 2001
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0671027794
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0671027797
• Book Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 1.2 inches
• Weighs: 7.7 ounces

Product Review
Monterey County Post (CA) Tylo's autobiography has as many twists and turns as the script for any of the "soaps" she has starred in. Making A Miracle provides an intimate and interesting look at a lady who has experienced the up and down sides of fame. -- Review

Product Description


Twice chosen for People magazine's "The 50 Most gorgeous People in the World" and widely hailed as the most captivating actress on daytime television, Hunter Tylo -- who portrays Dr. Taylor Hayes Forrester on CBS's The Bold and the gorgeous -- may seem untouchable, a star out of our orbit. But as she reveals in this candid autobiography, nothing could be further from the truth. She tells of her precedent-setting legal victory against the producers of Melrose Place, who fired her for becoming pregnant. She describes deeply personal moments in her life, such as the challenges she faced as a teen mom; she takes us through the tumultuous years with husband Michael Tylo; and she shares the heartwrenching story about her youngest daughter's courageous fight with a rare eye cancer.

In Making A Miracle, Tylo goes beyond the glamour of stardom and celebrity to bring you the honest, touching story of a lady whose grace and class are an inspiration to us all.

Reader Reviews
The book starts with her leaving B&B in 1996, after she found a role with "Melrose Place". A few weeks later she learned she was pregnant, and out of courtesy told the execs at Melrose the news. Soon she found herself without a job, she was fired from Melrose because she was pregnant. She had enough issues getting the role, with her newfound Christianity she was concerned about the role she would be playing, in which they gave very few details and were evasive with their answers to her questions. We don't find out what happens as a result of her termination until later in the book, near the end. She goes back to her childhood, to her first marriage where she was pregnant with her first son, Chris, and the tumultuous relationship she had with his father. Doing many commercials, she eventually found an acting job at "All My Children", where she met her future husband, Michael Tylo. At this point in the book we are introduced to their relationship, and it is a bumpy rollercoaster ride. She kicks him out, they fight over work, she gets him arrested, he tries to take her kids away from her, it was a constant battle. He lost his job at AMC after she did, and then she found work on "Days of Our Lives", being fired shortly after, then finding work at B&B. She accounts her friendship with co-star at B&B, Kimberlin Brown, and the problems that happened there. Lots of history there. Then Hunter landed a role in a mini series shot in India and Canada, her marriage with Michael failing, she fell in love with a man over there who had her succumb to false religion, and she was manipulated. Her marriage at its final thread, more constant fighting, and it seemed everything in her life had gone down the toilet so to speak. Then she found her faith in religion again, and talks about how it saved her marriage. Then the Melrose fiasco. The court case lasted an incredibly long time, and Spelling Enterprizes used every dirty tactic to make her look like a spoiled brat who was after their money. She was ashamed for a moment for considering having an abortion. I found this part of the book facinating, although disturbing that as she put it, they didn't want to admit that her child existed, not before, certainly not then either. She won the case, and during describing the trial, we learn of a shocking secret she had held within her for a long time, which I won't spoil here. She got her job back at B&B and had two other children. Her first daughter, who she was pregnant with during the Melrose fiasco, Bella, and then she was pregnant again during the trial with Kayta. It turns out Kayta had a rare eye cancer disease, and Hunter talks candidly about her chemotherapy and the heartbreak she went through during this time, when she questioned her faith, and was left confused. Overall a facinating read about Hunter's triumphs and tribulations in life, it's a shame she's not at B&B anymore, she really brought morality and class to that show that is now lacking on the show.