From storage sheds to Hollywood stardom: An inspiring journey

In her book, she also opens up about her first serious relationship. Her boyfriend at the time was cruel — repeatedly calling her a “slut” because of how she dressed and pressuring her to have sex with a female friend. When she refused, he went ahead and had sex with the friend right in front of her.

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The next day, Kelly discovered she was pregnant.

When her mother returned, they went to Planned Parenthood, where Kelly agonized over whether to terminate the pregnancy. Her mother suggested raising the baby together, but Kelly wrote, “With what money? What home? What insurance? I couldn’t imagine bringing a baby into what my mother brought me into. Absolutely not,” Kelly wrote. She ultimately made the decision to have an abortion.

Since then, Kelly has had several high-profile relationships over the years.

During her time at Friday Night Lights, Minka Kelly dated her co-star Taylor Kitsch.

But their “toxic” romance not only impacted her personally, but also affected how she interacted with other cast members on the hit NBC series, which ran from 2006 to 2011.

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”On the days we had to work together and were broken up, he didn’t want to be in the hair and makeup trailer at the same time I was. We couldn’t ride in the van together from base camp to set for the same reason,” Kelly wrote in her memoir.Continue reading…

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