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I TRIED TO CHANGE SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO

Loni Love

True Life Lessons

From the Emmy- and NAACP Award-winning cohost of Fox's The Real, a hilarious memoir about learning to resist the traps of perfectionism and conformity.
Loni Love hasn't taken the typical path to becoming one of America's favorite talk- show hosts. She was not the child of Hollywood legends and she never wore a size 0. She grew up in housing projects in Detroit, more worried about affording her next meal than going on a diet. She spent her first years in Hollywood trying to fit in - trying to mimic the perfect look, pretending she was younger than she was, even dipping into the shadowy world of plastic surgery. As Love writes, "There's a saying a lot of people live by: 'Fake it till you make it.' For me, it's always been 'fake it, and then have the whole thing blow up in your face.'" I Tried to Change So You Don't Have To is the uproarious story of how Love overcame the trap of self- improvement and learned to instead embrace who she is.


The 2018 Emmy winnder for "Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show Host" and two straight NAACP Image Awards for "Outstanding Talk Series" (all for The Real), Loni Love is the magnetic, hilarious, and relentlessly candid cohost of Fox's The Real and of SiriusXM's Café Mocha.
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Published 2020-06-23 by Hachette Go

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The down-to-earth writing will encourage readers to learn from past hardships. Read more...

Much of Love's early life was, objectively, awful, but she mines it for comedy and life lessons, not pity. [...] With her maniacal work ethic, incredible nerve, practical wisdom and huge heart, it's no surprise that Love found love. She's a woman whose romantic advice we should all listen to. Read more...

Loni Love spoke with The Grio via IG Live to talk about her upcoming memoir and how she personally is managing during the coronavirus crisis. Read more...

A fun and inspiring read that will please Love's fans. Read more...

Loni Love delivers laughs with real-life lessons... Love's] book is a let-me-tell-y'all, not a tell-all, affair.

NBC News ran an article on Loni Love's experiences with racism as revealed in I TRIED TO CHANGE SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO. Read more...

Loni's candid and down-to-earth writing will encourage readers to learn from past hardships.

Loni Love shares her typical day in quarantine with Us Weekly's podcast Read more...

Loni Love's latest memoir will help you accept your flaws... wise but relatable... Uproarious... written as someone who has long been wise beyond her years. Read more...

Black Enterprise interviews Loni Love on Instagram Live. Loni shares how perfecting the art of stand-up helped her career in more ways than just one, "I have to go back to the art of stand-up... You build up a certain type of confidence that is like, you know what, no matter what happens, I'm still gonna be me. And, this is what I'm going to do." Read more...

Loni Love talked with Blavity about how quarantine has opened her eyes up to areas of her life she could improve, and encouraged everyone, especially the Black community, to journal: "We don't journal ourselves enough. We don't write our history enough." Read more...

A moving memoir that will resonate with readers, especially women, in need of personal and professional motivation. Read more...

Even devout fans of the show will come to find that there's so much more to the comedian they didn't know about until they read her memoir.