Formerly Hot?

My Formerly Hot Life: Dispatches From Just The Other Side of Young is both a lighthearted and profoundly revealing offering from author, editor and sometimes television personality, Stephanie Dolgoff. A memoir of a woman who has come to the realization that she is no-longer considered young or hip, the book offers humor filled insights into what Dolgoff calls the “adult tween” years.

Dolgoff is editor-at-large at Parenting Magazine and blogs on a weekly basis for both more.com and parenting.com. With a literary pedigree that includes editorships in many forms for the likes of Real Simple, SELF and Glamor, Dolgoff knows well the topics of which she writes.

“...When men stop making lecherous cat-call and Spanx finds a home in your lingerie drawer, when marketeers start targeting you for Activia instead of trendy music, when you are “ma’amed” outside of the deep South, and when you have to start wearing makeup to have that “I’m not wearing any makeup glow”, it will dawn on you that somehow, someway, you have crossed the line into adult “tweenship”, that middle place between party-all-night youth and the turn-that-racket-down stage of middle age...”

At times the book is both funny and uncomfortable. Dolgoff lays bear the conundrums of this stage of life. One where a woman has an internal image of herself that just doesn’t jibe with her reflection in the glass between her and that bustier at Forever 21.

Over all the book is an enjoyable read and quite possibly the voice of an overlooked demographic, marketers take note!

Dolgoff also maintains a personal blog at FormerlyHot.com and produces extremely entertaining videos on her YouTube channel.