When Oprah says she has a good relationship with her father but was surprised to find out he’s writing a tell all book about her, you have to wonder what that means for all of us who don’t have good relationships with their fathers. 

I mean, clearly there isn’t a huge demand for tell all books about moms in Toledo who work at the local law office during the day as a paralegal and make cheeseburger macaroni when they get home at night.  But I don’t think it’s just Oprah who can imagine how insane it is to have a good relationship with your father and then boom.. he writes what will most likely be a not so glowing account about you for the entire world to read.

I wouldn’t know anything about that.  I’m not proud of it but my father couldn’t write a tell all book about me because after making the manuscript font sized 75 and typing for about ten pages, he would run out of whatever he could possibly stretch for 10 pages in length.  I’d have to finish the rest of the rest of the book for him.

(Lucky for him, if he <a href="http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/no-minivan-just-moxie/100-things-about-me/">clicks here</a>, he can see I’ve already started telling all.   Should give him a jumpstart to page three or so.)

What’s the worst thing her dad could say about her? I really don’t know.  But if she hasn’t murdered anyone a la OJ Simpson and she doesn’t have anyone hidden in her Santa Barbara home’s basement a la Desperate Housewives, she can probably get over whatever the newspapers choose to excerpt from the book (currently titled “Things Unspokenâ€) once it’s released.

Oprah should be happy her dad is coming out with this tell all book (By the way, who is the crazy publishing house willing to risk Oprah never encouraging her viewers to buy books they publish?!) because now she will never have to offer money to him again - she can tell him he should have gotten a bigger advance.  LOL  He officially looks like all those other parents of celebrities looking to make money off their kids hard work.  Love it.

Read more:  <a title="New York Daily News - Oprah's Dad Tells All" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2007/05/22/2007-05-22_dads_book_is_no_oprah_pick.html">New York Daily News</a>