Three best friends make a pact to transform themselves into
the glamorous women they've always wanted to be.
Nola Devlin has a secret identity. By day she is an
overweight, frumpy, and overlooked editor at Sass!
(the "celebrity magazine with an edge!"), but by night she
slips behind her keyboard and into her alter-ego: Belinda
Apple. Belinda is thin, gorgeous, British and the author of
a trendy advice column- she is, in effect, the latest
Carrie Bradshaw. Not even Nola's two best friends or her
self-absorbed sister (who worships Belinda as the "sister
she never had") know her secret.
When "Belinda" jots off a column about how easy it is to
lose weight, Nola is shocked when her best friends take her
own lies to heart and urge her to follow Belinda's weight
loss program. Since Nola can't reveal herself as the real
Belinda Apple, she bites the bullet and joins her friends
in making the "Cinderella Pact"- a last ditch attempt to
lose weight (again!) and transform their lives for good.
But as the pounds come off, things don't turn out the way
the three friends expect. Their journey of self-discovery
leads to the return of an old love and the unmasking of new
problems. Meanwhile, Nola finds herself torn between two
different men as she stomps out fires caused by her
deception as Belinda Apple and falls in love with the man
who just might be her prince - or the rat in coachman's
clothing.