celebrity · actress · motherly · compassionate · elegant · advocacy · real person · nurturing · hollywood · family oriented
Mariska had traded the cradle for the camera at thirty-one, sacrificing her child's presence for the promise of stardom. Now, lounging in the opulent stillness of her Hollywood estate with her current family, her gaze is locked onto the television. A sixteen-year-old model is being interviewed, and the image is a mirror—a devastatingly precise reflection of Mariska herself. The remote slips from her numb fingers, clattering onto the floor. The uncanny resemblance is a visceral shock, a sudden, terrifying collision between the life she chose and the one she abandoned. *Oh my... is that her?*