Jennette's mother tells her she should become an actress, and Jennette knows there is only one right answer.

Jennette's mother teaches her about calorie restriction after Jennette panics about her developing body.

Jennette is cast as Sam Puckett on Nickelodeon's iCarly, fulfilling her mother's lifelong dream.

Jennette's mother reveals her cancer has returned just as Jennette prepares to go on a music tour.

On her first solo music tour, Jennette eats freely without her mother's restrictions and gains weight.

Jennette returns from tour to find her mother dramatically thinner and weakened by cancer.

Jennette's mother begins spending every night at Jennette's new apartment, effectively becoming her permanent roommate.

Paparazzi photograph Jennette with Joe in Maui, and her mother responds with a flood of abusive messages.

While taking a photo of a Nickelodeon billboard from a moving car, Jennette's mother has a sudden seizure.

Surrounded by her family at home, Jennette's mother takes her final breath.

After binge eating in Little Tokyo following her mother's death, Jennette successfully purges for the first time.

Nickelodeon offers Jennette $300,000 in exchange for her permanent silence about her experiences on their shows.

After discovering Jennette's bulimia, Steven tells her they cannot stay together unless she seeks professional help.

Eating disorder specialist Jeff teaches Jennette to accept recovery slips as a normal part of healing.

At her mother's graveside for the last time, Jennette names the narcissism and abuse she endured.

From the moment Jennette's mother pushes her into acting as a child, the two become inseparably intertwined — united by ambition, illness, and Jennette's desperate need to please. Jennette lands the role of Sam Puckett on iCarly and watches her mother's dream come true, while her own desires remain buried. When her mother's cancer returns, the balance of power shifts, and Jennette's first taste of independence on a solo tour unravels into weight gain and shame. Her mother's deteriorating health draws them closer even as it reveals the possessiveness and cruelty at the heart of their bond. After her mother's death, Jennette descends into bulimia and is confronted by Nickelodeon's attempt to buy her silence. Through recovery, she slowly builds the capacity to grieve honestly and acknowledge what was done to her.

The core story of Jennette's life on screen and at home.

At age six, Jennette is taken to film her first acting role as a background extra on X-Files.

Jennette's grandfather gives her a Mike Wazowski toy and tells her she deserves to just be a kid.

Jennette and her iCarly co-star Miranda exchange AIM screennames and gradually develop a genuine friendship.

The Creator takes Jennette and her mother to lunch and promises Jennette her own spin-off show.

On set, Jennette discovers she has gotten her first period and resolves to return to restrictive eating.

At a private dinner, The Creator pressures Jennette to drink alcohol and massages her shoulders without consent.

After weeks in a coma, Jennette's mother briefly wakes and immediately criticizes Jennette for eating Burger King.

After iCarly ends, Jennette and Miranda cry together, each afraid their friendship won't survive the show's end.

Jennette breaks up with Joe, telling him she cannot get close to anyone while her mother is dying.

On a road trip to San Francisco with a friend, Jennette gets drunk for the very first time.

At her mother's funeral, Jennette breaks into uncontrollable tears at the microphone instead of singing as promised.

Jennette begins holistic therapy with a life coach named Laura, starting to confront her eating disorder and grief.

Laura tells Jennette her mother was emotionally abusive and caused her eating disorder; Jennette fires her in anger.

Jennette's father confesses he is not her biological father, nor the father of two of her brothers.

Jennette approaches her biological father at a jazz performance in Newport Beach, and they both begin to cry.

From her first days as a background extra on television sets, Jennette accumulates experiences that shape who she becomes long before she understands them. Her iCarly co-star Miranda becomes her first genuine peer friendship, a rare warmth in a childhood otherwise dominated by her mother's needs. Behind the scenes, the show's creator exerts his own disturbing influence over Jennette's body and sense of worth. As her mother's health spirals and her secret relationship with Joe collapses, Jennette loses her anchors one by one. Her mother's death sends her toward alcohol, and the grief she cannot process drives her deeper into her eating disorder. Through difficult encounters with a therapist, her father's confession, and ultimately a meeting with her biological father, Jennette begins assembling a new sense of who she actually is.

Behind-the-scenes moments that quietly shaped Jennette's journey.

Jennette's mother refuses a rejection from talent agent Barbara Cameron and argues until Jennette is reluctantly signed.

While waiting to audition, Jennette hears a voice she believes is the Holy Ghost, which instructs her to perform rituals.

Jennette tells her mother she no longer wants to act; her mother sobs until Jennette takes it back.

Jennette hears her first studio-recorded single for the first time and realizes it was written about loving her mother.

When Jennette and her mother reunite after the music tour, they are each horrified by the other's changed body.

Jennette's mother throws a remote at her head and calls her a whore when she tries to leave for the night.

During a dinner at Panda Express, Jennette's mother asks her to sing a specific song at her funeral.

While her mother lies comatose in a hospital, Jennette attempts to make herself vomit for the very first time.

Jennette arrives at a Sam & Cat table read and discovers her name has been removed from the directing schedule.

Steven announces he believes he is the reincarnation of Jesus Christ just as Jennette prepares to share her own news.

On a 14-hour flight to Sydney, Jennette purges repeatedly and discovers she has lost a molar.

After Steven is admitted to a psychiatric facility, Jennette decides to finally seek professional eating disorder treatment.

Jennette drops her scale down a trash chute on her birthday and does not buy a replacement the next day.

Jennette ends her relationship with Steven on a swan boat, recognizing that their bond has been codependent.

Jennette tells Miranda she will not join the iCarly reboot, choosing her mental health over her acting career.

Jennette's story is defined by moments when the truth of her situation forces itself to the surface, and she must either flinch away or face it. Her OCD rituals, her silent surrender when she tells her mother she doesn't want to act, and the shock of hearing her first song — written entirely about her mother — reveal how completely her identity has been shaped by someone else's desires. Her mother's most controlling and violent behaviors emerge in full force as Jennette inches toward independence, each attempt at freedom met with punishment. After her mother's death, the consequences of years of suppression arrive all at once: a boyfriend unraveling into delusion, a career stripped of its last remaining purpose, and a body pushed to its breaking point. In recovery, Jennette makes each decisive break — discarding her scale, ending her relationship, and refusing to return to the role that defined her childhood — entirely on her own terms.