I have friends that work in that industry and I used to be jealous of how good they look, but as Jackson concludes, everyone dies and no matter how good you look on the outside, your insides could be a complete mess. This probably won't play well in Peoria but like Hot in Cleveland, no one in Hollywood can look good forever and you need to step away. Things that are not normal any place else are a given there and you are only as good as how you look or your age. Do we get work done? Do we take the hormones to feel normal? And will your heart explode even though you do everything right?I didn't agree with all of her reasons for her actions, but Hollywood is indeed a strange place to live and work. Jackson goes back in her own family history relating how her grandmother didn't care about how she ate or looked while her mother was a health fanatic and plastic surgery devotee. There are parts of this memoir that are truly laugh out loud funny and others that are really poignant. And then there is ageism which is more than apparent in Hollywood were she was a screen writer. Hormone replacement therapy, plastic surgery, keeping fit and eating right are all tackled in this book of essays all linked together by age. She gracefully delves into the aging dilemma that women my age (yes, fifty) are now being bombarded with in the media. MY THOUGHTSLOVED ITTracey Jackson writes about what I suspected all along: all of this trying to act, be, look younger is not worth it and fifty is not the new thirty no matter how much "work" you do - your insides are still a ticking timebomb. She lays out fearless plans for a productive, full life going forward.Both realistic and funny, Tracey gives thought to what it means to be fifty and the perceptions of aging.Reading this book is like chatting with a girlfriend who totally gets what you are going through, at fifty and beyond. She talks about age in the workplace, and the effects of how that is perceived.The proverbial empty nest, and the pros and cons of that stage of life are discussed with humour, candor and insight.Tracey recalls how we got here, to age fifty, but also what to do now that we are here. She is both brave and honest in facing the realities of aging.Tracey shows no fear in discussing health and sex as a woman enters her fifties. Tracey Jackson takes on aging with candid humour. It was almost a shame or a curse, and again, women carried it on their own.Now there is a book about and for women 50 and over. Women muddled through it all on their own, afraid to speak of their struggles.Then it was about turning forty, and "The Change". Much is written on young women, young mothers, and it is wonderful because it didn't used to be that way.
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