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    Getting the Pretty Back: Friendship, Family, and Finding the Perfect Lipstick
    Getting the Pretty Back: Friendship, Family, and Finding the Perfect Lipstick
    Getting the Pretty Back: Friendship, Family, and Finding the Perfect Lipstick
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    Getting the Pretty Back: Friendship, Family, and Finding the Perfect Lipstick

    Written by Molly Ringwald

    Narrated by Molly Ringwald

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    The iconic Molly Ringwald shares intimate stories and candid advice in this fun, stylish, and sexy girlfriend's guide to life.

    To her millions of fans Molly Ringwald will forever be sixteen. As the endearing and witty star of the beloved John Hughes classics Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, and Pretty in Pink, Molly defined teenage angst, love, and heartbreak. While remembered eternally as the enviable high school princess Claire, or the shyly vulnerable Samantha, Molly is now a wife and mother, and just celebrated her fortieth birthday. Facing a completely new, angst-inducing time in her life, she is embracing being a woman, wife, mother of three, actress, and best friend with her trademark style, candor, and humor.

    In this book Molly encourages every woman to become ""the sexiest, funniest, smartest, best-dressed, and most confident woman that you can be"" by sharing personal anecdotes and entertaining insights about the struggle to get through the murky milestones and identity issues that crop up long after prom ends. Whether she's discussing sex and beauty, personal style, travel and entertaining, motherhood, or friendship, Molly embodies the spirit of being fabulous at every age, and reminds us all that prettiness is a state of mind: it's ""the part of you that knows what you really want, that takes risks.""

    Getting the Pretty Back is sure to charm women of all ages with its unforgettably personal, refreshingly outspoken take on life, love, and, of course, finding that perfect red lipstick. . . .

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateApr 27, 2010
    ISBN9780061988059
    Author

    Molly Ringwald

    Molly Ringwald's work in film is characterized by what the renowned New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael called her ""charismatic normality."" Throughout her extensive career, she has worked with such directors as Paul Mazursky, John Hughes, Cindy Sherman, and Jean-Luc Godard. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Parade, Esquire, and the Hartford Courant. She lives with her husband and three children in Los Angeles.

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    • 4/5
      Very cute book. Not a lot of new info but I LOVED the illustrations.
    • 3/5
      There were parts of the book that were cute and other parts that were droll. What I did like it her individuality; she stresses the point of women not forgetting who they are, and not sacrificing themselves.
      She isn't perfect and shares some of her faux pas.
      I found her Paris stint interesting and the wine segment not applicable, so I skipped it.
      In the end, she explains that as a person and parent, she's still learning. Aren't we all?
      It was a quick and easy read. Part of why I liked it is she reminds me a lot of my youngest aunt.