Under Construction
Because Living My Best Life Took a Little Work
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3.4 • 5 Ratings
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Publisher Description
A heartfelt, humorous personal memoir and relatable guide to overcoming obstacles, wising up about romance, and getting ahead in your career from the star of Netflix's hit reality show Selling Sunset.
In this engaging, witty, and inspirational memoir, Chrishell Stause shares her story of living an unconventional childhood in small-town Kentucky marked by periods of homelessness, family addiction struggles and dreams of one day being on a daytime soap, all while managing the local Dairy Queen. Through resilience and grit, she overcame obstacles and pushed past every barrier in her path to become one of the most envied luxury realtors in Los Angeles and buzzworthy cast members in reality TV.
She takes us behind the scenes of Selling Sunset, reveals never-before-told stories from her life in soaps, and even pulls back the curtain on her highly publicised love life, offering insight not before shared. With her signature honesty and charm, Stause also gives tangible advice based on the lessons she's learned over the years and offers unique insight about how to stay resilient and positive no matter how many times life knocks you down. Under Construction is for anyone who wants to remember that no matter what happens or how, you have to get up, dress up and show up - and walk back into the room stronger than ever before.
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"Every remodel begins with a mess, and I'm certainly no exception," writes Stause, of Netflix's Selling Sunset, in this bubbly debut about her bumpy road to success. While some may think of the former soap actor as a "high-maintenance girl who wouldn't last five minutes on a camping trip," Stause reveals she actually spent a year in middle school homeless and living in a tent with her family in Missouri. Despite her "scrappy" upbringing, Stause reframes her adversities in a positive light. In an unflaggingly upbeat tone, Stause recalls the several jobs she juggled (Dairy Queen manager, hand model, promotional Walmart Barbie) before landing her dream role on All My Children in 2005—sharing the takeaways she learned from each one (like perfecting her ice cream "curlicue"). She also discusses choosing a "more stable" career in real estate—a fortuitous move that led to her being cast on Selling Sunset—and opens up about her much-publicized 2019 divorce from actor Justin Hartley, wringing from her grief the lesson that "it was definitely not meant to be." Though the sunny optimism and surfeit of motivational tips—"Your everyday job should be practicing self-advocacy"—borders on excessive, Stause's sincerity brings things down to earth. This inspiring story is sure to charm fans.
