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Ballantine Books
August 2010
On Sale: August 17, 2010
224 pages
ISBN: 0345521455
EAN: 9780345521453
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
When men stop making lecherous catcalls and Spanx get
comfortable in your lingerie drawer, when marketers target
you for Activia instead of $200 premium denim, when you have
to start wearing makeup to get that I m not wearing any
makeup glow and are ma amed outside the Deep South, it may
dawn on you that somehow you have crossed an invisible line:
You are not the young, relevant, in-the-mix woman you used
to be. But neither are you old, or even what you think of as
middle-aged. You are no longer what you were, but not quite
sure what you are. Stephanie Dolgoff calls this stage of a woman s life
Formerly, the state of mind and body she herself is in now:
Her roaring twenties are behind her, but she s not in hot
flash territory, either. My Formerly Hot Life, showcasing
Dolgoff s wacky and wise observations about this
little-discussed flux time, demonstrates that becoming a
Formerly is intensely poignant if you re paying attention,
and hilarious even if you re not. From fashion to
friendship, beauty to body image, married sex to single
searching, mothering to careering (or both), Dolgoff reveals
the upside to not being forever 21 even as you watch the
things you once thought were so essential to a happy life go
the way of the cassette tape. You may be formerly thin,
formerly cool, formerly (seemingly) carefree, formerly
cutting-edge, but in reading My Formerly Hot Life you are
reminded that you are finally more comfortable in your skin
(formerly obsessed with your weight), finally following your
instincts (formerly ruled by the opinions of others), and
finally happy with where you are (formerly focused on the
guy or job you thought would take you where you thought you
should be). While you may no longer be as close to the
media-machine-generated idea of fabulous, you can do many,
many more things fabulously. Wildly entertaining and inspiring, My Formerly Hot Life
proves that once you let yourself laugh about that which is
passing, life is richer, more fun, and more satisfying.
Despite what you re led to believe, growing older most
certainly means growing better.
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