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Tough Titties: On Living Your Best Life When You're the F-ing Worst Hardcover – June 13, 2023
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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
- Print length320 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHachette Books
- Publication dateJune 13, 2023
- Dimensions5.95 x 1.06 x 8.55 inches
- ISBN-100306826046
- ISBN-13978-0306826047
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“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. I 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 flaming mess, 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
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- Publisher : Hachette Books (June 13, 2023)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 320 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0306826046
- ISBN-13 : 978-0306826047
- Item Weight : 15 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.95 x 1.06 x 8.55 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #37,648 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #55 in Self-Help & Psychology Humor
- #114 in Humor Essays (Books)
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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 Bravo, Fandango, FX, NBC, HBO, USA, Nick at Nite, Nickelodeon, TV Land, VH1, and more. Belgray lives with her husband in New York and, except for college, has never lived anywhere else. Not coincidentally, she doesn’t drive.
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You won't expect her quips to cause you to laugh so loud you'll bring attention to yourself. Consider this your warning: use caution when opening in public! On a flight my seat mate thought I was choking on snacks. I had to snort through an "I'm okay it's just this book" mime. So glad the title says it all.
Okay, so she had a celebrated life in New York and born and raised with educated, wealthy parents. I didn't get to experience an iota of the same but still found myself in similar moments to hers. Growing up in the 80s was awkward for everyone so it was fun to be nostalgic for my own childhood and appreciate survival, from mean girls to cool shoes.
She reminds us that at all levels of who you are as a person, regardless of upbringing, you may be disliked, sad in your own skin, or insecure about the shoes you're wearing. But if you're able to tell a good story, find a loving soulmate and celebrate life to the fullest, you must have "Tough Titties".
Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2023
You won't expect her quips to cause you to laugh so loud you'll bring attention to yourself. Consider this your warning: use caution when opening in public! On a flight my seat mate thought I was choking on snacks. I had to snort through an "I'm okay it's just this book" mime. So glad the title says it all.
Okay, so she had a celebrated life in New York and born and raised with educated, wealthy parents. I didn't get to experience an iota of the same but still found myself in similar moments to hers. Growing up in the 80s was awkward for everyone so it was fun to be nostalgic for my own childhood and appreciate survival, from mean girls to cool shoes.
She reminds us that at all levels of who you are as a person, regardless of upbringing, you may be disliked, sad in your own skin, or insecure about the shoes you're wearing. But if you're able to tell a good story, find a loving soulmate and celebrate life to the fullest, you must have "Tough Titties".
Tough Titties is a memoir of short essays about Laura’s experiences growing up in NYC in the late-'70s, and early '80s, getting a late start to her career but ultimately finding success as a copywriter for Nickelodeon. Remember those funny Nick at Night promos? She wrote them.
The entire book is funny, but one of my favorite parts is the chapter about driving. This is what happened the first time Laura drove an ATV:
“I’d hopped on, expecting to zip easily down the road. Instead, I careened slowly into a stone wall, where the force of impact ejected me—also slowly—over that wall. Anna still does an impression of me going over the wall like a giant tree falling languidly. Or like an elderly tree lowering itself onto a beach chair. I walked away unhurt, if not exactly confident.”
I’m laughing right now just thinking about it.
But as funny as it is, Tough Titties is also endearingly vulnerable. From “Boys Don’t Like Me” to “B___ Jobs I Gave in the Early ‘90s” to “Self-Help Night Near the Midtown Tunnel” and ultimately “Company Woman,” the “hero’s journey” is unlike one you’ve ever seen before.
And thank goodness.
Because there’s a message in that. This quote sums it up nicely:
“It turns out my stubborn refusal to be a “supposed to” person has gotten me right where I'm supposed to be, and, if you ask me, the same can go for you. That's right: you can get ahead while feeling like you're a giant step behind and you can live your best life even if you're sometimes the fu&*ing worst.”
What makes this a worthwhile read - and not just a collection of funny stories - is the irony Laura artfully weaves throughout the book. You can succeed by not living up to hustle-culture expectations and not doing what you’re “supposed to” do to get ahead. And not only can you succeed, but you can live your best life. With a happy marriage and financial security, no less.
Now that’s a powerful message. And it’s entertaining, to boot! Quick, get your copy before they’re all gone!
Not so with Tough Titties! I’m happy to report this book is actually as funny as everyone says it is.
It’s been a very long time since I read a book that had me laughing out loud throughout. Laura’s writing is so honest (“TMI served here”) and so conversational, you’ll feel like she’s sitting in front of you telling her stories as you read it.
As a fellow late-bloomer (yet to bloom, actually), I identify with maybe too much in this book - to include the middle school bullying, being a “gristle”-loving child and turning into a fat-phobic teen, utterly lacking initiative as an intern, desperate and cringey hook-ups, and even having “clock dysmorphia” (ask my mother or boyfriend or any employer I’ve ever had).
I’ve laugh-cried several times and I don’t want the book to end. My bf can hear me on the other side of the house cackling to myself, which he said is cute. Bonus!
I lived in NYC through college and most of my adult life, so I appreciated all the NY references -- from the dive bars to the H&H bagels to bartending school at Columbia University (I took that class but failed to become a bartender). But you don't have to be a native New Yorker to appreciate the stories.
Laura's hilarious storytelling wraps in important lessons about creating the life you want while being true to who you are. I loved her stories of navigating the social circles in private school, going to "Studio", aspirations of becoming a bartender and finally finding a way to tap her talent.
I didn't want it to end. Highly entertaining and very funny.
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That's not to say that it's a piece of fluff or "commercial" in the soulless sense of that word. Laura is a smart, sophisticated storyteller who made me laugh out loud I don't know how many times throughout. Like, this is sharp, top tier hilarious writing. But it also feels like gossip, the dirt the rest of us might only tell our very best friend, the indignities we might not ever admit to anyone. Plus some salacious run-ins with real-life celebrities Laura doesn't name, but about whom she leaves a bunch of clues that had me in sleuth mode on Google for a good hour.
Best of all, it's a balm for any shame you might feel around your own past humiliations and/or feelings about being behind in life. There are no instructions for levelling up, there are no steps or exercises. There is just Laura telling her story, in a super entertaining (and often touching) way. And yet you somehow walk away feeling more accepting of and more confident about your own. Pretty brilliant, if you ask me.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 17, 2023
Laura Belgray has created something magical with this book. Belgray has been someone I have admired for years, and this book has clearly shown me why. Her life story is funny, touching, outrageous, and inspiring for creative weirdos and big dreamers like myself, and her tone conveys authenticity, grit, courage, compassion, and trust. As someone who has always pursued my heart's calling instead of a traditional career or family, it is refreshing to feel a kindred soul in Belgray's relatable yet nurturing and wise voice as we enter a time in history where we get to choose our definition of success and also..re-define it daily. If you want an inspiring and thought-provoking read, get this book now. It is delightful to read while touching on deeply sensitive and important issues for any woman (or man) on a self-discovery and self-love journey. Own your frak-fag, and do what you feel called to with it. Fly, run, swim, or ride it, and anything goes so long as it feels true to you. Otherwise- Tough Titties!