Getting the Pretty Back
Friendship, Family, and Finding the Perfect Lipstick
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Beschreibung des Verlags
As the endearing and witty star of the beloved John Hughes “brat pack” classics Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, and Pretty in Pink, Molly Ringwald defined teenage angst, love, and heartbreak. Now a wife and mother of three, and a star on the current hit television drama The Secret Life of the American Teenager, Molly is facing a new angst-inducing time in her life—her fortieth birthday! Encouraging every woman to become “the sexiest, funniest, smartest, well dressed, and most confident woman that you can be,” Molly shares a lifetime of experience in a vibrant, fun, stylish, and sexy collection of intimate stories and candid advice: Getting the Pretty Back, a fully illustrated “girlfriend’s guide” to life.
Her candid, witty guide offers a roadmap for rediscovering your most confident self, with advice on:
Style and Confidence: How to break the fashion rules, find your signature style, and why a good tailor and the perfect black blazer are your best friends.Beauty and Skincare: Tips for finding the perfect red lipstick, the truth about "boyfriend hair," and why you should never, ever shave your eyebrows.Friendship and Motherhood: Navigating friendships after kids, the importance of a "friend date," and why being a mom doesn't mean you have to lose yourself.Food and Entertaining: From mastering the perfect green salad to the secrets of a French cheese plate and why you should never wear sandals in the kitchen.Aging with Grace: Molly's heartfelt and humorous take on turning forty, embracing change, and getting back in touch with the whimsical, fun, and flirty girl you've always been.
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Famous for her roles as an angst-ridden teen in John Hughes classics like Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club, Ringwald, now a 40-year-old wife and mother living largely outside the celebrity spotlight, seems a credible source of advice for young women and a likely fount of behind-the-scenes Hollywood anecdotes; unfortunately, she provides little of either in this uninspired self-help memoir. Like a well-meaning but distant friend, the actress shares advice and observations on topics like love, clothes, and food, often focusing on the inane and obvious (souvenir t-shirts are both ugly and ill-fitting; rushing into sex is usually a mistake) rather than the personal or perceptive: "When you're a teenager, you're forever thinking: Do they like me? When you're a grown-up the question becomes: Do I like them?" Ringwald occasionally involves her personal history, including the fact that the early stages of her romance with husband number two were mostly conducted over email, but she skimps on the details that her fans are probably looking for, with surprisingly little reference to the movie work that made her an icon of suburban youth in the 1980s. Color illustrations.
