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...Armstrong gave birth to her first child, a daughter named Leta, and she used her blog to chronicle her pregnancy, postpartum depression, and all the little things that no one bothers to tell new mothers until it's too late. It Sucked and Then I Cried is a memoir of the first nine months of her daughter's life, Armstrong's first nine months as a mother, and the mental breakdown she had because of it. Armstrong talked to TIME about her blog, her baby, and why no one ever told her that being a new mother was hard...
...belt as a columnist for the Washington Post and a bestselling anthology, Mommy Wars, which took on the feminine work- life balance myth by embracing the fact that most women's jobs and lives will never be perfect. But her successful present belies a haunting past: In her new memoir, Crazy Love, Steiner reveals how she fell in love with and married a man who beat her regularly and nearly killed her. TIME spoke to Steiner about why she decided to write about the most painful period in her life, what lessons she hopes readers can draw from her experience...
...choose to reveal your secret now? Similar to Mommy Wars, this memoir allowed me to dig deeply into a very personal issue. It allowed me to answer a series of why's and find out things for myself. Honestly, I really wanted to understand why I had been vulnerable to a man like my first husband and why I had ignored so many red flags. It's an incredible thing to take something bad that happened to you and turn it into something good. Writing Crazy Love was that...
...does this memoir complement, if at all, a discussion on working mothers? It's all about balance. And the hallmark of both Mommy Wars and Crazy Love is candor. You have to push yourself to be very honest. Even about things you don't like about yourself. In a nutshell, the reason I wrote Mommy Wars is because I got so tired of women saying, "My life is so perfect. Everything is perfect" when no - it actually is not. Candor is so valuable. With domestic violence, candor is the total answer; it is a syndrome that is made worse...
...years, you wrote and edited for Seventeen magazine. How has your relationship to young women shaped this memoir? Being a teenage girl is one of the most profound times in a female's life. And I think in some ways it is a more transformational time than male puberty. That's why I love the Twilight series. It's all about a girl discovering her immense power of a being a woman. I have always been fascinated by the issues that women grapple with. And I think it's a very interesting time to be a woman, especially in this...