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Title details for I Tried to Change So You Don't Have To by Loni Love - Available

I Tried to Change So You Don't Have To

True Life Lessons

by Loni Love
Loni Love
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An inspiring, hilarious memoir about learning to resist the pressures of conformity, love yourself for who you are, embrace your flaws, and unlock your true potential.
Winner of the African American Literary Award for Memoir!
Now cohost of Fox's The Real and SiriusXM's Café Mocha, Loni Love hasn't taken the typical path to becoming America's favorite straight-talking girlfriend and comedian. She was not the child of Hollywood legends and she never wore a size 00. Rather, she grew up in housing projects in Detroit, more worried about affording her next meal than going on a diet. When she moved to Hollywood after graduating college with an engineering degree, seeking to break out in the entertainment world, there was nothing that would convince her to eat the kale salads and quinoa bowls that her colleagues introduced her to, which looked to Love like "weeds my grandma used to pay me a dollar to pull from her yard."
Still, despite the differences that set her apart in the status-driven world of entertainment where being thin, young, blond, and bubbly is sometimes considered a talent, Love spent years trying to fit in—trying to style her hair just so, dieting, dating the men she thought she was supposed to be with. In this book, she tells the uproariously funny story of how she overcame the trap of self-improvement and instead learned to embrace who she was. As Love writes, "There's a saying a lot of people live by: 'Fake it till you make it.' For me, it's always been 'fake it, and then have the whole thing blow up in your face.'" I Tried to Change So You Don't Have To explores all of the embarrassing mistakes, terrifying challenges, and unexpected breakthroughs that taught her how, by committing ourselves to our own path, we can take control of our destiny.

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    June 23, 2020

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      • ISBN: 9781549102103
      • File size: 190777 KB
      • Duration: 06:37:27

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      June 1, 2020
      Comedian and The Real talk show cohost Love (Love Him or Leave Him, but Don’t Get Stuck with the Tab) delivers an upbeat memoir about how she overcame poverty and built a career in entertainment. Love grew up living in public housing in Detroit, Mich., in the 1970s and ’80s and writes powerfully of getting kicked out of the house at 17 by her mother, who preferred her boyfriend to her daughter; sleeping in her car while working an assembly line job at General Motors; getting a scholarship to study engineering; and taking a job at Xerox while nurturing her dream of becoming a stand-up comic. A charming narrator, Love amusingly discusses living in Compton, Calif., with a former boyfriend and his mother, who wanted to turn her into a “black Stepford wife”; struggling with her weight; hustling for years to get low-paying stand up gigs (at venues including the back room of Roscoe’s Chicken and Waffles) before landing a job on The Talk in 2013; and falling in love in her late 40s with a white guy. Throughout, she offers such useful advice as “say yes to opportunities that replenish your spirit as much as your wallet.” Love’s moving memoir will resonate with readers, especially women, in need of personal and professional motivation.

    • Booklist

      May 1, 2020
      Standup comedian and cohost of The Real, Love (Love Him or Leave Him but Don't Get Stuck with the Tab, 2014) serves up a light, funny memoir about growing up in the projects of Detroit and finding success first as an engineer and later as a comic. Growing up ketchup-sandwich-for-dinner poor," Love managed to avoid the many pitfalls facing her via her talents for entrepreneurship (she ran a grocery delivery business as a child) and comedy?winning a school talent show was a huge turning point. Throughout the book, Love maintains her sense of humor and can-do spirit: living in her car after her mother kicks her out she asks, How am I ever going to meet Tito Jackson living like this? She also offers up advice based on her experiences, often in the form of end-of-chapter lists. While not necessarily a deep dive or a spiritual or emotional journey, this is a fun and inspiring read that will please Love's fans and readers who loved Tiffany Haddish's memoir, The Last Black Unicorn (2017).Women in Focus: The 19th in 2020(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2020, American Library Association.)

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