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‘Hey Natalie Jean’ – A Liveblogged Book Review

I received a lovely gift today – a copy of ‘Hey Natalie Jean’, the world tour worthy freshman book effort by the blogger formerly known as Nat the Fat Rat. Because I so enjoy drinking and falling on grenades for my GOMIBLOG hamily, I will now proceed to use my day off to read this with a bottle or five of prosecco and update this post in real time with my thoughts, including pictures. Just keep on hitting refresh – I’ll get the first part up and then continue updating as I read. Off we go!

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Someone Actually Publishing The Ramshackle Glam Book Because Why Not

dis gon be wtf

Jordan Reid, having another baby and still trying to be famous, is apparently just about done with her shillshackle sham book. The galley is out and it’s less than game changing. The book seems to be broken down into sections:

  • 1. new motherhood – where Jordan uses a things-nobody-tells-you format to act as if no one until Jordan has provided real maternity style advice or been truly honest about adjusting to life with a newborn
  • 2. fashion – which is basically Jordan going on and on about how she’s going to dress however she wants, and blathers on far too long with tips for postpartum dressing, again acting as if this is information available nowhere else (wrap dresses, how groundbreaking)
  • 3. beauty – in which Jordan instructs you to get “quality rest”, “drink water”, apply eye cream “every single night”, and use shampoo and conditioner suited to your hair before providing a tutorial on false eyelashes
  • 4. home – which includes several pages on how to make an inspiration board, and a retelling of her meeting and marrying Kenny before sharing revolutionary information about how to set up a nursery in a small space
  • 5. recipes – with half the contents being pasta instructions and the other half being roasted chicken and crock pot ideas

After that there’s a whole bunch of crap about how to travel with a baby because she’s an expert I guess, and how to stay married and keep romance alive and yada yada. Throughout the book she also mentions her website – she has a website, by the way this happened on my website, I post about myself on the internet – about 900 times in case anyone missed it the first 700 times in the introduction. Then there’s a “Conclusion” chapter where she mumbles on about some car she owned 15 years ago and reminds everyone she used to be an actress.

TL;DR, it’s pretty much just 186 pages of her blog in book format, so the contents are just about what you’d expect – a whole lot of Jordan defending her choices under the guise of girl power sympathy and solidarity, and a bunch of meandering stories about Jordan and Jordan’s life that segue extremely awkwardly into the topic at hand. As this is a proof I’m really hoping she has some good editors, because if this goes out as is they might as well title it 50% Off: I Got A Book Deal So Here’s The Book and save booksellers some time.



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