TORONTO - Tori Spelling is still trying to set the record straight about her private life.
  
The actress, who faced decades of tabloid rumours as the privileged daughter of late TV producer Aaron Spelling, is launching a third season of her reality series with her Canadian actor-husband, Dean McDermott, on Slice in Canada on Tuesday.

Spelling, 35, says "Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood" and its previous incarnations -- entitled "Tori & Dean: Inn Love" -- are her way of letting fans know who she really is, not who the gossip rags say she is.

"For me, it was just I felt like everyone was writing about my life, everyone was commenting about my life but no one was quite getting it right," Spelling, who played ditzy Donna Martin on the 1990s teen prime-time soap "Beverly Hills, 90210," said in a recent phone interview with McDermott from their Los Angeles home.

"So for me I just figured reality shows are getting bigger and bigger now, why not do a nice reality show based on a family ... and be able to show the public and our fans the real us? And it's worked out better than I could ever have even imagined."

Spelling's first attempt to tackle the misconceptions about her rich childhood was the 2006 VH1 TV show "so noTORIous," in which she parodied her public image.

Then in March of this year, she released a candid memoir called "sTORI Telling."

The book touches on everything from Spelling's "90210" days to her feuds with her mother, Candy, to her love connection with McDermott, which began on a film set in Ottawa while the two were still married (Spelling to actor Charlie Shanian and McDermott to Canadian TV chef Mary Jo Eustace).

After a firestorm of controversy about their affair and subsequent marriage in May 2006, the two launched their reality TV series to help clear the air about their relationship.

The first two seasons of the series saw the couple running a bed and breakfast in Fallbrook, Calif., and welcoming their first child, the now-1 1/2-year-old Liam.

In "Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood," the two have stopped operating the B&B and are back in Tinseltown to await the birth of their second child, Stella (who is now nearly four months old).

For the new season the show was stretched to a one-hour format from the half-hour of the previous two instalments, allowing them to give viewers more of an inside look into their lives, they say.

Talks are also under way for a fourth season of the series, which airs on Oxygen in the U.S., said Spelling.

"We get to work together every single day, it keeps our family together, so it's an ideal job for us," said Spelling.

"We do everything together as it is," added McDermott, whose latest film, "Saving God," comes out on DVD next week.

"We're very very rarely apart and if we are we hate it. If I'm away from T for half an hour, I go crazy."

Spelling is also penning a second book of memoirs, called "Mommywood," set for release next spring.

"It is a continuation of storytelling and my life (after) I had Liam," she said.

"This is my life now -- being a mom of two, being married, being back in Hollywood."