She's Let Herself Go: Notes from a Former Childless Millennial
Kate Kennedy
Apr 2027 · Sold by St. Martin's Press
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From Kate Kennedy, New York Times bestselling author and host of the Be There in Five podcast, comes a candid and culturally observant exploration of millennial motherhood and womanhood.
In She’s Let Herself Go: Notes from a Former Childless Millennial, Kennedy returns to the questions she once asked while on the fence about having kids, revisiting what she feared, assumed, and imagined about motherhood now that she’s living inside it. She also has discovered a whole new set of questions, like what’s so bad about a woman realizing she understands Emily Gilmore more and more with each passing year and why do we now need a rotation of four to six serums after a double cleanse? Borrowing its title from the familiar insult reserved for women who become mothers, get older, or change too visibly, She’s Let Herself Go turns the phrase around to ask the most important question: Go where?
Kennedy follows that question through the physical, emotional, and often absurd realities of becoming someone’s mother, writing about shifting ambitions and priorities, beauty and body standards, caregiving and boredom, pregnancy and loss. Examining what we’ve been told motherhood will be, from ’90s babysitting gigs and frumpy sitcom moms to the tabloid bounce-back machine and Nancy Meyers kitchens, Kennedy explores what it means to be in a culture that expects women to be transformed by motherhood, but then tells them to get back to who they were before.
Part memoir, part cultural commentary, She’s Let Herself Go is neither a highlight reel nor a how-to, but a hilarious and deeply personal look at the messy middle of early motherhood, for anyone who has ever felt nostalgic for her former self, wondered who she’s becoming, or been bewildered by the experience of loving a person who once existed only as a hypothetical.
In She’s Let Herself Go: Notes from a Former Childless Millennial, Kennedy returns to the questions she once asked while on the fence about having kids, revisiting what she feared, assumed, and imagined about motherhood now that she’s living inside it. She also has discovered a whole new set of questions, like what’s so bad about a woman realizing she understands Emily Gilmore more and more with each passing year and why do we now need a rotation of four to six serums after a double cleanse? Borrowing its title from the familiar insult reserved for women who become mothers, get older, or change too visibly, She’s Let Herself Go turns the phrase around to ask the most important question: Go where?
Kennedy follows that question through the physical, emotional, and often absurd realities of becoming someone’s mother, writing about shifting ambitions and priorities, beauty and body standards, caregiving and boredom, pregnancy and loss. Examining what we’ve been told motherhood will be, from ’90s babysitting gigs and frumpy sitcom moms to the tabloid bounce-back machine and Nancy Meyers kitchens, Kennedy explores what it means to be in a culture that expects women to be transformed by motherhood, but then tells them to get back to who they were before.
Part memoir, part cultural commentary, She’s Let Herself Go is neither a highlight reel nor a how-to, but a hilarious and deeply personal look at the messy middle of early motherhood, for anyone who has ever felt nostalgic for her former self, wondered who she’s becoming, or been bewildered by the experience of loving a person who once existed only as a hypothetical.
From Kate Kennedy, New York Times bestselling author and host of the Be There in Five podcast, comes a candid and culturally observant exploration of millennial motherhood and womanhood.
In She’s Let Herself Go: Notes from a Former Childless Millennial, Kennedy returns to the questions she once ...
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Kate Kennedy is a Chicago-based New York Times bestselling author, pop culture commentator, and host of the cult-favorite podcast Be There in Five, whose work explores the intersection of pop culture, nostalgia, and modern womanhood. Through sharply observed essays, millions of podcast downloads, and sold-out live shows, she’s built a devoted audience by finding surprising depth in the ordinary things that shaped a generation of women, from American Girl dolls and AOL Instant Messenger to “going-out tops” and modern internet culture. Her debut, One in a Millennial, became an instant New York Times, USA Today, and indie bestseller, and her work has been featured by Good Morning America, Forbes, People, The Washington Post, and more.
Kate Kennedy is a Chicago-based New York Times bestselling author, pop culture commentator, and host of the cult-favorite podcast Be There in Five, whose work explores the intersection of pop culture, nostalgia, and modern womanhood. Through sharply observed essays, millions of podcast downloads,...
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