First published 2012
Ali Wentworth opens her life like a recipe book, mixing equal parts privilege and rebellion. The actress and comedian serves up stories from her quintessentially WASP childhood, where she learned the art of proper rebellion against upper-crust expectations. She takes readers behind the scenes of her "Schmoopie" days on Seinfeld and her appearances across major talk shows including Oprah, The View, and Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Wentworth doesn't hold back when describing how she built a family with her husband, news anchor George Stephanopoulos. Her storytelling captures the absurdity of navigating between her blue-blood background and her comedy career, revealing the unexpected moments that shaped her path from privileged daughter to working mother in the spotlight.
Genres: autobiography, contemporary, memoir, comedy
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: fish-out-of-water, found-family
Setting: Seinfeld, The View
Period: 21st-Century
277 pages · Kindle Edition · Harper