There is something really wrong in this world. No, it’s not just the fact that My Name Is Earl star Jaime Pressly has critical, misplaced and altogether missing vowels in her name. She has a fucking book that was just released. I. Kid. You. Not. So, I hear this news and think she must have some juicy or tragic life story that I don’t know about that would warrant the need for her to be penning her memoirs. I surfed over to Amazon to read the synopsis:
America knows Jaime Pressly as Joy Turner, the feisty cheatin’ ex-wife of Earl Hickey on the NBC hit show My Name Is Earl. Like her character, the Emmy Award-winning actress is, at heart, a smart, vibrant, small-town Southern girl. In this humorous and honest book, she recalls her journey from Kinston, North Carolina, to Hollywood, California, to motherhood, and the fortitude it took to make her dreams come true, including separating from her troubled past, overcoming her own bad choices, and dealing with success when it finally came her way.
Pressly speaks openly of her extremely colorful family and of her growing understanding of how their lives have been shaped by larger forces, including prejudice, power, privilege, love, loss, and longing. She shares how the lessons she learned from their lives impacted her own journey and helped her succeed where so many others have failed.
Inspiring, heart-wrenching, and laugh-out-loud funny, It’s Not Necessarily Not the Truth offers a slice of American life sure to touch the hearts of readers everywhere.
Am I on Candid Camera right now? Am I being Punk’d? Because, based on this summary, Jaime Pressly’s “story” is basically the story of every human being that has ever lived.
This has inspired me to write my own autobiography including chapters such as Mastery of The Perfect Grilled Cheese Sandwich and How My Life Changed Forever Once I Learned How To Wax My Own Eyebrows. Literary agents may forward their bids through my site.
LOL. I totally agree with you, Wendy. That being said, “don’t hate the player, hate the game?” Can’t really knock her for writing the book, and for it being published because the sad thing is, someone DID decide to publish it because (even sadder) there will be some people who actually choose to BUY it. Which is worse? Her “compelling” life story, or that people will actually spend money to read it? ….She does look good here though :-p.
How is it the story of everyone who ever lived? Or am i sitting on the set of my own TV show with a scientologist in a fake trailor with a baby by a used to be kind of hot Cuban man and i just didnt realize it?
Snoring boring! I’m going to let myself think that the book contains specifics, but that blurb was Everytown, U.S.A. Most people’s lives are shaped by outside forces. Like a bus schedule, or a broken water heater.
Wendie, don’t forget chapters I’ve Seen Some People Around and I Theoretically Can’t Drink Gasoline.
I must hang my head in shame… cause there is nothing I love more than memoirs from someone who has yet to turn 40. Truly they are a weakness for me. And the more delusional they are the more I love the book.
I love them just as much as any book Kitty Kelly has written.
With the exception of that new memoirs book from Miley Cyrus… which I refuse to believe she can even form complete sentences on her own, so how did she “write” a book.
i work in a lovely, small bookstore and we carry lovely books. we don’t generally order mass-market books for the store but we often special order books for customers. here are some of the books i have been forced to order for customers this year:
“diamonds” by nicole ritchie
“stori telling” by tori spelling
“wishful drinking” by carrie fisher
something about a fat fisherman by the guy from howard stern’s show
“star” by pamela anderson
“through the storm” by lynne spears
every fad diet book known to mankind (hint: they don’t work!)
every “celebrity” writes a book, and people initially buy them and then the publisher can’t give them away. i’m sure this chick’s book will be in the 1/2 price bin within 3 weeks.
oh and yes, my co-workers and i order these books and then we make fun of them after the customer leaves.
can someone explain to me please why my posts take so long to show up, and sometimes don’t show up at all? i include my email and don’t fill my posts with filter words like f*ck, c*nt, etc. what is the problem??? on other sites i visit my posts go up right away. it’s because i don’t like lindsey lohan, right?
Yes it is because of the lohan.
These bitches be illin up in here all the time.
“Mastery of The Perfect Grilled Cheese Sandwich”
Spill. Please.
Grilled cheese are my favorite sandwiches ever, I must know the secret to the perfect grilled cheese!
“Am I on Candid Camera right now? Am I being Punk’d? Because, based on this summary, Jaime Pressly’s “story” is basically the story of every human being that has ever lived.”
YES EXACTLY.
I wouldn’t buy her book. She seems very snooty, but in the same sentence she is as white trash as the character she plays. I wonder if there is a chapter about how it was easy to identify with her character and how she didn’t have a problem stepping into that role. The problem is she forgot to step out of it. She is Klassy with a “K”
I actually read the book. I have to say, the prose was so good that I had to truly wonder if she’d actually written herself. More importantly, although her rise to stardom had a lot to do with her posing for Playboy and doing raunchy, nude sex scenes in B movies, she doesn’t even mention this aspect of her career in the book. It’s like it never happened. Well, I have the mags (and the aching wrist) to prove it…