Funny and deeply personal, Sorry Not Sorry recounts Glee star Naya
Rivera's successes and missteps, urging young women to pursue their
dreams and to refuse to let past mistakes define them.
Navigating through youth and young adulthood isn't easy, and in Sorry
Not Sorry, 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 Glee, Naya emerged from these experiences with some
key life lessons:
Sorry:
- 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.
- At-home highlights and DIY hair extensions. Some things are best left
to the experts, and hair dye is one of them.
- Falling in love with the idea of a person, instead of the actual
person.
Not Sorry:
- 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.
- Laughing at the gossip instead of getting upset by it.
- 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.
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. Sorry Not Sorry is for that thirteen-year-old in all
of us.
