Formerly

I'm a little late to the game on this one. This article was featured in NYTimes Style section about 3 weeks ago and I completely missed it. Then I saw some cryptic tweets and had to go back and piece together what this was all about. Basically, Stephanie Dolgoff, a female author, decided to create a moniker for her station in life. Late 30s, early 40s, married with children and formerly hot. Ok, well I don't necessarily buy it. It has some underlying tones of a PR ploy. Make up something that creates controversy and get lots of publicity for yourself, your website and your upcoming book. So, I do think part of this was crafted in a 27th floor PR agency conference room. But you got to give a girl credit. As for the formerly hot bit, well, that's where I think it falls short. So, just because you are "older" and married with kids doesn't necessarily mean you lose your edge. I know lots of hot, got in going on in many areas of their life mamas (and you know who you are.) It's like saying that a 45-year old unever married man is gay. I don't subscribe to it. I checked out the website. More of the same. As for the book, it falls into the I-wouldn't-buy-it-but-I-might-get-it-from-the-library category. (a la Jill Zarin's Jewish Mother book.) I've decided that there a lot of things that I am formerly but I'm really interested in rehashing that.