Tara Reid Glad Press Storm is Over  11/1/06

American Pie star Tara Reid has blasted the media for upsetting her mother with scurrilous gossip and "negative" photos about the actress.

Reid admits the past two years have been tough on her family and she's convinced that coming clean about her botched plastic surgery has given tabloids and magazines pause for thought.

The actress says, "They forget that I'm someone's sister and I'm someone's daughter. It hurts their feelings. My mom, it breaks her heart. I'm her daughter... she wants to go out and kill them.

"I think I'm just so misunderstood as a person... It's like every time you see me out they'll only show a picture of me, like, with a cup in my hand. They won't show all the benefits I'm involved in with children. They never show anything positive.

"The last couple of years have been really rough for me, kinda like being in a storm or being in a hurricane.

"Coming clean (about plastic surgery) and getting myself fixed, I feel like it's the end of the storm and I'm starting to see a rainbow."