You Have No Idea: A Famous Daughter, Her No-Nonsense Mother, and How They Survived Pageants, Hollywood, Love, Loss (38 page)

Showered with rose petals on the steps of the Church of the Holy Trinity in New York City, 1999

Listening to Kenny Lattimore serenade us during our first dance

Both families joined in matrimony

With the family at my Hollywood Walk of Fame star ceremony in front of the historic Hollywood Roosevelt hotel—a big day! 2007

Finally! My graduation ceremony from Syracuse University, Mother’s Day Weekend, 2008

Devin’s confirmation at Saint John and Saint Mary, (left to right) Jillian, Mom, Sasha, Devin, me, Melanie, and Ramon, 2009

Mom’s seventieth birthday bash in New York, wearing her favorite color: red, December 2009

Christmas with Mom, Dad, Devin, Jillian, and my favorite uncle, Earl, December 1994

Christmas in Marina del Rey, California, 2000

Wilhelmina on the rooftop before she gets busy with a baseball bat, Los Angeles, 2008

Mode
Rules! With my costars on
Ugly Betty
, Michael Urie and Becki Newton, Los Angeles, 2009

Wilhelmina marries Bradford on my actual anniversary to Rick, who was guest starring in that episode … crazy! Los Angeles, September 2007

A moment of calm before the scene where Wilhelmina has to torment the lovely Betty White, Los Angeles, 2007

With my hilarious brother, Chris, in drag as Wilheldiva Hater, New York City, 2010