Name: I'm Fine... and Other Lies
ISBN: 9780735212602

Whitney Cummings

The creator, writer and executive producer of "2 Broke Girls" presents a personal account of her life and career, detailing her struggles with challenges ranging from anxiety and an eating disorder to relationships and pop therapy.

I'm Fine... and Other Lies

Briar's Reviews

Whitney Cummings' book I'm Fine... and Other Lies is an honest biography with lots of self-help thrown in throughout the book.

I've always enjoyed Whitney's stand-up. She's honest, funny, and one of the best female comedians out there. This book shows us there's a lot of painful back story behind this absolutely hilarious woman. Am I surprised? No. A lot of funny people don't have the easiest lives. Regardless, Whitney shares her experiences (both heartbreaking and hilarious), and gives a lot of tips she's learned over the years from her therapists. 

Side note: Thank you Whitney for making therapy seem more normal by talking more about it in this book. You're helping remove the stigma behind not getting help for your mental health.

Overall, this book is funny, insightful, and honestly very helpful. Whitney gives fantastic insights into what she learned from therapy, and made a great read.

Four out of five stars!

A hilarious personal account of the life, times, and crippling anxiety of rising star comic, actress, writer, producer, and director Whitney Cummings, now in paperback. 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. This book contains some delicious schadenfreude in which Whitney recalls such humiliating debacles as breaking her shoulder while trying to impress a guy, coming very close to spending her life in a Guatemalan prison, and having her lacerated ear sewn back on by a deaf guy after losing it in a torrid love affair. Full of intellect, anxiety, chutzpah, and profundity, I'M FINE...AND 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. This intimate, no-holds-barred look at Whitney's life is a revelatory, profoundly astute, and most importantly, honest tale of what it means to be a woman in today's day and age and Twittersphere, with all of the insecurities and anxieties that come with that territory and with the most important takeaway being that, at the end of the day, no matter her situation, she's fine...and other lies.

I'm Fine...and Other Lies

Анастасия Розова

I loved this. Before this book I have only seen one of Whitney's stand-up and I liked it, but I can't say it was a favorite. Bit this book made me like her a lot more. She was very honest and relatable. Also she was narratong her own audiobook and that's always a huge plus.
I recommend it to everyone, even if you don't know Whitney Cummings.

I'm Fine... and Other Lies

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