![]() Aside from its lack of salacious details about their split, Unqualified is observant, sharp, and startlingly revealing, not only about Faris’s romantic history, but of the broader discrepancies between modern male and female Hollywood stardom writ large. I’m pleasantly surprised to report that it’s not. This probably makes the book sound like a disaster-or at the very least foundationally dishonest. ![]() Other than a few sentences about their relationship that seem to have been edited into past tense (Pratt calls her the “person I spent one amazing decade with, and will, for the rest of my life, amicably coparent a human,” referring to their 5-year-old son, Jack) their divorce goes completely unspoken, the elephant in the corner of the couples counseling room. Like … soooo much.”īut that opening-page wink is misleading. And boy did a lot happen between then and now. “When I was asked to write the for Unqualified, Anna’s memoir,” Pratt begins, “I immediately said yes without even thinking about it. Indeed, the first words of Faris’s relationship-advice book come from her ex-husband. Unqualified arrived in stores Tuesday, with a big, red cover line that now feels tragically self-defeating for a relationship-advice book: “FOREWORD BY CHRIS PRATT.” Imagine if, on the eve of Bossypants’ release, Tina Fey had been demoted. After they announced their split, there was something morbidly intriguing about the fact that the book’s publication seemed to be going ahead as scheduled, especially since neither had spoken directly about their breakup in the months since first sharing the news on social media. Faris had at that point already written a book based on her popular relationship-advice podcast Anna Faris I s Unqualified. This August, the affable, generally well-liked celebrity couple-both known, in Pratt’s words, for portraying “intelligently played idiots”-announced that they were splitting up after eight years of marriage. I will admit that the initial reason I picked up Anna Faris’s new book, Unqualified, was a little dubious, though probably not rare: I wanted to see what she had to say about Chris Pratt.
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