I'm Fine...And Other Lies

I'm Fine...And Other Lies
ISBN: 9780735212602
Publication Date: 3 October 2017

A hilarious personal account of the life, times, and crippling anxiety of rising star comic, actress, writer, producer, and director Whitney Cummings.

After getting her start as a stand-up comic and then breaking out with her wildly successful CBS sitcom 2 Broke Girls (she's the creator, writer, and executive producer), Whitney Cummings has seen a few things and is turning to the written word to tell us all the stuff she doesn't say on stage. That time a dermatologist shamed a too-young Whitney into getting Botox and then she looked like a cross between that lady who made her face look like a cat and an actual cat It was fine! She learned how to be more direct and not rely on facial expressions anymore. She's totally fine. When Whitney learned the hard way that when you think a guy is your soulmate, he is probably just gay, she was completely, totally fine. So what if Whitney had to undergo equine therapy to overcome an eating disorder Really, it's fine! Horses helped give her the permission she needed to be so hungry that she could eat, well, a horse. See how totally fine she is

Full of intellect, anxiety, chutzpah, and profundity, I'M FINEAND OTHER LIES is, in Whitney's words, like the internet if the internet were honest and didn't hate women. With her signature ball-busting edge and self-deprecation, Whitney comes clean about what has shaped her into the trailblazing comic that she is today in addition to the above, she was also the first woman Comedy Central roast joke writer (for the roast of Flavor Flav, no less), has been diagnosed as clinically codependent, has cheated and was cheated on, and, importantly, has gotten her vagina steamed.

This intimate, no-holds-barred look at Whitney's life makes for juicy schaudenfraude, no doubt, but it is also a revelatory, p...