Tori Spelling promotes her book in Milly and Christian Louboutin. Photo: Getty Images
"I'm wearing Milly, shoes by Christian Louboutin," she told StyleList cheerfully of her gold-flecked purple cocktail dress and gold pumps. (She paired the same shoes with a classic yellow Diane von Furstenberg number for the signing.)
All the fuss is about "Uncharted TerriTORI," her third book, which is already a smash success after arriving in stores midweek. ("It's outselling her second book after just two days," a positively giddy Simon & Schuster publisher gushed to StyleList over rooftop cocktails.)
Spelling has bounced back after a number of health scares, including food poisoning this week that caused her to miss a slot co-hosting "The View." And she delayed her "Today" show appearance -- in which she discussed contracting swine flu and denied having an eating disorder -- by one day,
"This book goes to a much deeper level of me. I find this to be a very inspirational book," Spelling said. "I know [the readers are] used to my funny stories, and they're all in there, like when I got called in to jury duty. I showed up and everyone was staring, like, 'What is she doing here?'"
A friendly clerk, who was obliged to read the potential jurors' names aloud, told Spelling she'd announce her as "Victoria Spellman" to keep the actress incognito.
"I went back to my seat and I thought, 'Oh crap! She's going to say 'Victoria Spellman' and people are going to say, 'Oh God, so you had that name and you had to change it for acting purposes?'" (When she received the numbered tag she had to wear pinned to her shirt for the rest of the afternoon, of course she was assigned 69.)
Spelling, a rushed mother of two, laughed when StyleList asked about her daily beauty regime.
"Literally, I feel like I'm pressed for time, [so I ask] what's going to make me pop and feel good about myself?" she said. "I curl my eyelashes, I put on mascara, and I put on colored gloss, and I'm out of the house!"
Spelling, along with her husband Dean McDermott and their children Stella and Liam, can be seen on the Oxygen network show "Tori & Dean."
In other book news, read about Arthur Ortenburg's loving tribute to his late wife Liz Claiborne.