Jane Fonda

'There are always regrets in life, among them things we've done that we wish we could take back and erase. I have significant ones that will haunt me forever and which I hope I have been brave enough to confront in this book' Jane Fonda in the preface to My Life So Far. Now in her 60s, Fonda looks back over her life but also forward to the future. With unflinching honesty she addresses, amongst other things, her tragic and tortured relationships with her mother and father; her lovers and husbands, from Roger Vadim to Ted Turner; her passions and political views. The result is rare in its readability and sheer page-turning force. This is a powerful account of an extraordinary woman.

My Life So Far

Lauren Attaway

My Life So Far does what few memoirs do- it teaches you about the person and give you their history and actual history in an informative and easily readable way. 

Prior to the last few years, most of my Jane Fonda knowledge was limited to her fitness history, protest history, and I knew she made movies. I had heard this memoir described as a textbook by the Celebrity Book Club Podcast, and Jane really gave me a context of the Vietnam War that was missing in my classrooms growing up. Jane’s given so much history sharing her own story and explained her beliefs and actions in a way that I think even her critics would have to acknowledge. I was as interested in her chapters on gender and parenting as I was on the showbusiness insights and the breakdown of her career choices. The takeaways are endless. She hands out marriage advice and relationship lessons that are so reasonable, without assigning all of the blame to others. This is how you get divorces three times and grow. Funny enough (as they starred together in Monster-In-Law), this is actually the kind of play by play on love and career that I would love from JLO and other multi-hyphenates. 

I would recommend this book to people interested in activism as well as the entertainment business, as she shows respect to everything she shares. I feel like I took a Jane Fonda class, in the best possible way.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Discover Jane Fonda, in her own words—and now experience the story of her life in the HBO documentary Jane Fonda in Five Acts. “To hold this book in your hands is to be astonished by how much living can be packed into sixty-plus years.”—Los Angeles Times America knows Jane Fonda as actress and activist, feminist and wife, workout guru and role model. In this extraordinary memoir, Fonda shows that she is much more. From her youth among Hollywood’s elite to her film career and her activism today, Fonda reveals intimate details and personal truths she hopes “can provide a lens through which others can see their lives and how they can live them a little differently.” Surprising, candid, and wonderfully written, My Life So Far is filled with insights into the personal struggles of a woman living a remarkable life. “In the process of writing this book I discovered there were clear, broad, even universal themes that ran through my life, a coherent arc to my journey that, if I could be truthful in the telling, might provide a road map for other women as they face the challenges of relationships, self-image, and forgiveness. What I did not anticipate was how my journey would also resonate with men.”—From the Introduction Praise for My Life So Far “[A] sisterly, enveloping memoir . . . an intimate, haunting book that might as well be catnip from its ever controversial author.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times “Terrific . . . rich . . . unexpectedly quite moving.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Fiercely intelligent, detailed, probing, rigorously revealing.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “Fonda possesses a raw and affecting candor. . . . Her honesty [is] a force.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer “A fearless book . . . fascinating.”—Chicago Sun-Times “Truly compelling.”—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution “Riveting.”—Seattle Post-Intelligencer

My Life So Far

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