This Is Me

Before you opened this book, what was your first memory of Hayden Panettiere on screen, and how did that picture of her feel next to the woman you met in these pages?

If you could curl up with one comforting thing from your own childhood (a show, a snack, a blanket, a song) while reading this, what would it be?

She grew up with much of her life happening in public. Was there a moment that made you want to reach through the page and give her a hug?

Which parts of her story about mental health felt the most brave to you, and did any of them make you feel less alone in something you've carried?

Family, both the love and the complications, runs through this memoir. What stirred up feelings about your own family, and which of those feelings felt comforting?

The title is a statement of self-acceptance. Where in your own life have you had a 'this is me' moment, even a small one?

Memoirs ask us to hold someone's hardest seasons with care. How did it feel to read about her struggles alongside the public version you knew, and did it change how gently you want to treat people whose lives you only see from the outside?

By the final pages, what did you most want for her, and what would you want someone to wish for you after reading the story of your own hard years?