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Nancy Dow
Jennifer Aniston stopped speaking to her mother, Nancy Dow, after Dow gave a revealing interview to a tabloid TV show. But Nancy showed that even being cut off from your successful child can have a silver lining. In 1999, three years since she last spoke with Jennifer, she authored From Mother to Daughter to Friends, which billed itself as "the story of the family that gave the world Jennifer Aniston" and "chronicled the difficulties of having a distant relationship with an adult child." (It also included awkward adolescent pictures of Aniston that the actress hadn't authorized.) In the wake of her divorce from Brad Pitt, Aniston has reconciled with her mother, but she said in one interview: "It's baby steps."

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Honorable Mention: Kathy Hilton
She may have had the Hilton name since Paris was just a twinkle in her father's eye, but it wasn't until her oldest daughter crawled on all fours in a Rick Solomon production that Kathy Hilton (née Avanzino) gained widespread recognition. Hilton has been making the most of it ever since. In 2005, Kathy hosted the reality television atrocity I Want to Be a Hilton, in which she coached 14 wannabes on "the do's-and-don'ts of haute couture, etiquette, and even how to handle an unforgiving press." One reporter who has covered Hilton says she peppers luncheon invites with promises that daughter Paris may arrive (no word if Nicky is mentioned at all, or is just a liability). Not bad for Hilton, who started her Hollywood career in a 1968 flick called The Harem Bunch.

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