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THIS WILL BE FUNNY LATER
As the daughter of controversial TV star and comedian Roseanne Barr, Jenny spent an unusual childhood bouncing from one self-help retreat to another, as her parents tried to keep her and her siblings occupied and out of the way: fat camps, brat camps, wilderness survival, drug rehab (despite the fact that she'd never used).
Now as an adult, having overcome an eating disorder and crippling anxiety, she lives on a farm in Hawaii with her husband and four sons, creating the stable family she never had. Her mother lives nearby and they remain close, despite their political differences. Jenny's personal essays tell the tragi-comic (but mostly comic) story of how she found her way through a chaotic upbringing and offer to readers her hard-earned insights about the problems arising from celebrity worship and celebrity media.
Helping Jenny with Happy Face Trouble is Lisa Gabriele, a journalist and television producer of such shows as Master Chef and Dragon's Den (the original Shark Tank format). She collaborated with Shark Tank personality Kevin O'Leary on his two bestselling books and is also a bestselling author in her own right. Her most recent novel, The Winters, was published by Viking (US) and Doubleday Canada. Lisa and Jenny met a few years ago when they pitched a TV show based on Jenny's life on her goat farm. That project eventually morphed into working together on this book.
Jenny Pentland is a writer, mother, and goat farmer, and has an active social media presence on Twitter and Instagram.
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Published 2022-01-01 by HarperCollins |