Minka Kelly Dishes About Her “Complicated” Relationship With Stripper Mom

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Life has not always been peachy for the beautiful Minka Kelly, most famous for her roles in Friday Night Lights and the upcoming TV reboot of Charlie’s Angels

Minka, Derek Jeter‘s 31-year-old ex-girlfriend, opens up in the October issue of Cosmopolitan magazine about the “pretty complicated” mother-daughter relationship she went through with her stripper mother, Maureen Kelly, prior to Maureen’s death in 2008.

“She was 5’11”, Minka recalls of Maureen and then continues, “Legs up to her ears, gorgeous. She got along on that for as long as she could.”

Growing up with a stripper mom, Minka was frequently the one who had to be the responsible party. Often times, her mom would try to get Minka to ditch school to go shopping by waking her up in the middle of the night after getting home from the strip club. “That was like our big Friday,” she recalls. “She would want me to skip school [the next day]. I was like ‘No, Mom, I’ve gotta go to school!'”

Maureen was a single mom and Minka’s father, onetime Aerosmith guitarist Rick Dufay, wasn’t around much in Minka’s life. He “wanted to try the family thing,” but Minka says her mother “was too busy having fun.” She laments, “It wasn’t like he didn’t want to be part of our lives.”

“I didn’t know how to appreciate what good friends we were,” Kelly admits. “Because I just wanted her to be my mom.”

Sadly, Minka’s mother died of colon cancer three years ago. “That’s detectable,” Kelly says. “Talk about being reckless and not paying attention to your body.”

Thankfully, the duo ended things on good terms before it was too late. “By the time [my mom] passed I was holding her,” Kelly says. “I was with her until her last breath. We made it.”

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