By Anne Helen Petersen
Publication Date - June 20, 2017
4 stars
The author may know a thing or too about pop culture and how celebrities are portrayed in the media. She is the culture writer at Buzzfeed, after all. In this book, she provides profiles of different celebrities and the way in which they are just too unruly, and how they have both embraced and eschewed their unruliness. Melissa McCarthy is too fat, Kim Kardashian is too pregnant, Madonna is too old, and so on. I think I expected this to be a little more gossipy but to be honest there are good feminist arguments about how these women are perceived and the backlash they receive for not conforming to society's ideal celebrity persona. I especially liked the essay on Nicki Minaj which condensed her responses to interviews and created a very compelling narrative. Some of these profiles are better than others and I felt at times she was reaching in order to prove her point but overall, this is a great addition to the growing genre of books about women's unruliness. I received this book from Penguin's First to Read Program in exchange for an honest review.
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