Tough Titties: On Living Your Best Life When You're the F-ing Worst
Tough Titties: On Living Your Best Life When You're the F-ing Worst book cover

Tough Titties: On Living Your Best Life When You're the F-ing Worst

Hardcover – June 13, 2023

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Price
$18.67
Format
Hardcover
Pages
320
Publisher
Hachette Books
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-0306826047
Dimensions
5.95 x 1.06 x 8.55 inches
Weight
14.8 ounces

Description

“I loved Tough Titties and didn’t want it to end! Through her insightful wit and sarcasm, Laura Belgray speaks to the late bloomers and slow starters in us all.”― Kelly Ripa, New York Times bestselling author of Live Wire “Nobody makes me laugh like Laura Belgray. She’s got a one-of-a kind knack for taking the shame out of life’s most humiliating moments. Tough Titties is a hilarious, must-read permission slip to be 100% you.” ― Marie Forleo, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything is Figureoutable “Where has Laura Belgray been all my life? Hilarious, eloquent, wise, she writes with delicious honesty about coming of age, falling in love, and finding meaning in these weird and chaotic times.xa0I loved Tough Titties so much I want to press it in the hands of everyone I pass on the street!”― Joanna Rakoff, international bestselling author of My Salinger Year and A Fortunate Age “I’ve been a fan of Laura Belgray’s hilarious, tell-it-like-it-is writing for years. She was an early influence on my own craft, and I count her among my teachers. Laura’s for anyone who keeps waking up disappointed to find they didn’t become a different, more pulled-together person in their sleep.”― Holly Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author of Quit Like a Woman "If you're worried you're doing life wrong, Tough Titties will give you hope. It's proof that you can be a flamingxa0mess, make questionable choices, have no plan, and turn out just fine. I laughed, I cringed, I nodded in recognition—on just about every page."― Emily McDowell, founder of Em & Friends "Laura Belgray's voice is smart, shockingly honest, and laugh-out-loud funny. In these essays, you'll find that best friend who always makes you feel better, about everything."― Kimberly McCreight, New York Times bestselling author of Reconstructing Amelia and A Good Marriage Laura Belgray is the founder of Talking Shrimp and co-creator of The Copy Cure with Marie Forleo. She has been featured in Fast Company, Money Magazine, Forbes, Vox, and Business Insider , and has written for Fandango, NBC, HBO, TBS, Nick at Nite, Nickelodeon, TV Land, FX, Nick Mom, VH1, TNT, Lifetime, Oxygen, the CW, and more. Belgray lives in New York.

Features & Highlights

  • USA TODAY BESTSELLER From award-winning TV writer Laura Belgray, a hilarious collection of full-body-cringe, watch-through-your-fingers life lessons her own husband calls “loser
  • Sex and the City
  • .”
  • What does it take to grow up cool and popular, master adulthood, fast track your success, and always be your best? Laura Belgray wouldn’t know. Her wildly relatable coming-of-age stories include hate-following her 6th grade bully on social media decades later; moving home post-college to measure her self-worth in hookups with Upper West Side bartenders; dating a sociopathic man-baby; proving herself in the early ‘90s at New York’s coolest magazine (as the world’s worst intern); falling for get-rich-quick schemes on the Internet; and, most of all, saying “tough titties” to the supposed-to’s in life: driving a car, being on time, handing in your paperwork, learning to roast a chicken, and having kids.  Peppered with cutting insights on our confusing, self-helpy culture that calls hair removal “self care” and tells us to give our 110% but also to give zero f*cks,
  • Tough Titties
  • will leave you feeling better about, well, everything. Let’s face it: we’re all tired of shame-spiraling after being told what to do when we
  • know
  • we’re not going to do any of it.
  • Tough Titties
  • is one big permission slip to be a dork, a sometimes-unspiritual slacker, a late bloomer and, ultimately, 100% yourself. It’ll also have you snort-laughing in public and tapping whoever’s nearby to say, “Lemme read you one more part!” Which is annoying, but tough titties. “Nobody makes me laugh like Laura Belgray. She’s got a one-of-a kind knack for taking the shame out of life’s most humiliating moments.
  • Tough Titties
  • is a hilarious, must-read permission slip to be 100% you.” — Marie Forleo, #1
  • New York Times
  • bestselling author of
  • Everything is Figureoutable

Customer Reviews

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Most Helpful Reviews

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I found it more moving than funny (though clever and witty), wonderful and mesmerizing read

I found it more moving than funny (though clever and witty), wonderful and mesmerizing read (if you grew up in 70/80s/90s especially)Really loved this book and yes, read it with much, much pleasure. I think it helps if you have some memories or are familiar with New York City, but maybe if not, you will learn how crazy childhood during that time. I liked the stark honesty of the author, who put the magnifiying glass where it could be uncomfortable. She does not shrink away. I know the author as a email-writing coach and did not expect a book with such depths, which I found very touching. It was emotional without being emotional or corny at all. Great Job, Laura, I was really impressed by your ruthless honesty. That's brave and made it a great read.
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I DO judge a book by its cover and I LOVE this one.

This memoir is a peek behind the curtain of how Laura Belgray became who she is now. It is laugh-out-loud funny. Her personality shines throughout the book, and the reader gets an unapologetic, real, and raw look at her life. I will forever be a fan because of her authenticity.

My favorite passage from Tough Titties is: "Being different and unapologetically "you" has a ripple effect. It gives others permission to be more "them," and so on."

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