Realistically Ever After: Finding Happiness When He's Not Prince Charming, You're Not Snow White, and Lifes Not a Fairy Tale

By Cristina Ferrare

As children, we are all taught to look forward to Happily Ever After. And when Cristina Ferrare was growing up, it seemed she was well on her way to seeing all of her dreams come true. A world-class... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1579549470
• ISBN13: 9781579549473
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Rodale Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.5" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

AAAAHHHHHH.....love the book!!

Wow. Just finished reading this book! Can we just call Christina the Renaissance Woman of the YEAR!! Between her passion for her work and then her family.....so relatable...so real! Her book is incredible and I will gladly take the time to say so! Buy it, you will not be dissapointed!! You are a spokeswoman for all WOMEN!!

Loved it!

This book is fabulous! I really enjoyed reading it! Thank you, Cristina Ferrare, for such a great read.

Christina has done it once again!!!

An amazingly written, laugh-out-loud portrayal of family struggles and life lessons. I bought three more copies of this book to give to friends who share the same opinion. Everyone can relate to Christina's stories. She has an endless passion and vigor for life, a very admirable quality. Your writing always hits home with me!!!God Bless!

A MUST READ FOR WOMEN OF ALL AGES!

You go Cristina Ferrare, this book was FABULOUS! Realistically Ever After was honest and humorous in a Erma Bombeck-ish way! I laughed, I cried and I giggled from the beginning to the end of this book.As a much admired and well-liked celebrity, Ms. Ferrare has always been candid in sharing both the good and the troubling times in her life with her audiences and fans. I knew this book would reflect her warm personality, honesty and humor that she shares with us on TV. If you love to watch and listen to her as I do, you will love this book and in your heart you will thank her for opening up and sharing the good and hard times. It lets you know that we are all the same no matter who you are and that nobody has a perfect life.Now when I need a good giggle or a little cry I don't have to wait for her to be a guest on a TV show, I can just pick up her book at anytime!I truly recommend this book for women of all ages. I know I will be purchasing this book for my 27 year old daughter. I might add that I know my mother loves her more than me, and nothing could make me happier! Read the book and you will know why I said this!

ENTERTAINING!

Cristina Ferrare has written a very humorous and yet honest account of the realities of marriage, divorce, giving birth and blending families.She is honest in her recount of her marriage to John DeLorean in this book (in her beauty book written many years ago she told us her marriage to DeLorean was fabulous) so in retrospect it wasn't fabuluous and she does admit now that in hindsight and with a truly wonderful marriage at present, she was deluding herself about the realities of her marriage to DeLorean.She saw the blending of the two famiies as "The Brady Bunch" and is very candid when she discovers that nothing could be farther from the truth.Her sections on pregnancy and childbirth are so refreshing in this day and age when women are led to believe that Lamaze is synonomous with painless and where breastfeeding is a wonderful bond between mother and child instead of an incredibly painful experience.I loved her fantasy vacations - off they go to Hawaii and Sun Valley and Theme Parks and nothing ever goes according to Cristina's vision of the perfect family on vacation.The book does take on a somber note when Cristina reveals the depth of her son's drug addiction and his long road back as well as her estrangement from her daughter Kathryn. These chapters don't detract from the lighhearted aspects from the rest of the book and in fact give it more depth.I have two small problems with this book:1. She wonders if she can love her grandchildren as much as she does her children and then tells us she loves them more! I don't think I would feel very good if my mother told me that she loves her grandchildren more than she does me and I wonder how her daughters feel about that statement.2. In discussing her writing, she starts off with the cookbook she wrote as if that were the first book. However, she did write a beauty book back in the 80's that she has totally dismissed in this book and I wonder why. Is it because she tells us what a fabulous marriage she has to John DeLorean in that book and those words have come back to haunt her? I wonder.Some reviewers are going to dismiss this as so much fluff but I had a smile on my face the whole time I read it and found it to be very honest despite its lightheared tone.If you are in the mood for a fun read (mostly) told by a funny lady, this is definitely worth reading I have enjoyed watching Cristina on TV for many years (I even love "The Impossible Years"), wish she had gotten the co-hosting spot with Regis and hope to see her on TV again soon