Sorry Not Sorry: Dreams, Mistakes, and Growing Up

Sorry Not Sorry: Dreams, Mistakes, and Growing Up

<b>Funny and deeply personal, <i>Sorry Not Sorry</i> recounts<i> Glee</i> star Naya Rivera's successes and missteps, urging young women to pursue their dreams and to refuse to let past mistakes define them.</b><br /><br />Navigating through youth and young adulthood isn't easy, and in <i>Sorry Not Sorry</i>, Naya Rivera shows us that we're not alone in the highs, lows, and in-betweens. Whether it's with love and dating, career and ambition, friends, or gossip, Naya inspires us to follow our own destiny and step over--or plod through--all the crap along the way. After her rise and fall from early childhood stardom, barely eking her way through high school, a brief stint as a Hooters waitress, going through thick and thin with her mom/manager, and resurrecting her acting career as Santana Lopez on <i>Glee</i>, Naya emerged from these experiences with some key life lessons:<br /><br />Sorry:<br />-  All those times I scrawled "I HATE MY MOM" in my journal. So many moms and teenage daughters don't get along--we just have to realize it's nothing personal on either side.<br />-  At-home highlights and DIY hair extensions. Some things are best left to the experts, and hair dye is one of them.<br />-  Falling in love with the idea of a person, instead of the actual person.<br /><br />Not Sorry:<br />-  That I don't always get along with everyone. Having people not like you is a risk you have to take to be real, and I'll take that over being fake any day.<br />-  Laughing at the gossip instead of getting upset by it.<br />-  Getting my financial disasters out of the way early--before I was married or had a family--so that the only credit score that I wrecked was my own.<br /><br />Even with a successful career and a family that she loves more than anything else, Naya says, "There's still a thirteen-year-old girl inside of me making detailed lists of how I can improve, who's never sure of my own self-worth." <i>Sorry Not Sorry</i> is for that thirteen-year-old in all of us.<br /><br /><br /><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>