After Violet was born and she split up with her boyfriend, Ryan would joke that they’d wanted a “save the relationship” baby, but ended up with a regular one instead. Outside of television, Katherine has sold-out venues across the world with her unique stand-up shows. I listened on Audible as I love to hear authors reading their own stories and I find Katherine’s voice very appealing. Some of what she said was quite private and tragic, but she’d shrug it off or say something funny a second later, the way my favourite confessional comedians do today. Her implants have served her well, but despite this, she says, she’s planning on getting them removed.

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Her cover photo, shot when she was nine months pregnant, sees Ryan lucent and blonde in an ice-blue gown trimmed with marabou feathers, holding aloft in her left hand her favourite of her three tiny dogs. There was not a conversation I couldn’t shoehorn a bit from The Audacity into and when you read this book (or listen to the audiobook) I guarantee you will find yourself doing the same.Not at what Ryan says so much, but with a sweet and awe-filled shock at how little she cares about what people think of her.

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Things that can be a source of shame for a lot of women and she talks about it so candidly, things you really wouldn't want other people to know about. I listened to the audiobook which is narrated by Katherine herself and I personally found it very engaging. The only thing that’s preventing me from getting them out now is finding the time – I was pregnant for 18 months and now I’m breastfeeding.

One thing to note was, despite being a memoir, Katherine still manages to keep the identities of her past boyfriends (including the really terrible ones) anonymous which—although a pretty classy (and legally savvy) move— did disappoint me a little. I also want to empower people, and I think I do that for a lot of women’: Katherine Ryan wears dress by Roksanda Selfridges (selfridges. For the most part, I thought it was a interesting and very honest autobiography, but I found there were some cheap jokes and at times it was a bit boring. I didn’t (and still don’t) know all the details of course, but she spoke about it at work and seemed genuinely relieved to be moving on.

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Unsurprisingly Ryan does not gloss over the many issues she faces that her male co-workers in comedy don’t. She wasn’t my best friend, she wasn’t my sister, but it affected me, and it affected all the young women in our town, too. I don’t want a family to waste money on a babysitter and come out to my gig and hate it – I want people to have a nice time. No matter what I do, there will always be something about me that reads as simply, outrageously audacious. From the star of the hit Netflix series The Duchess comes a brilliantly funny, fiercely honest, and dangerously astute handbook of life instruction.

She has a very matter-of-fact tone, which I’d normally like, except it was coupled with 20/20 hindsight; she doesn’t really bring the reader along with her. I know in retrospect it’s maybe not the most aspirational thing that you can do, because it is positioning yourself as being for decoration, which is not ideal, but I was always a student of what I was doing.

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The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network. What I appreciated about this book was that she is very honest, even about the really gross details about some of the unfitting, horrible, gross relationships she has had. I've learned to be a sharp-shooter on stage, but there are so many stories that I'm eager to tell in more sincere, longer form. I learned from Jessica that no one is too good for their job and that no one is beneath anybody else.

I like how she didn’t shy away from the less good things that she has experienced and seemed to put in all the important life events instead of just adding the good and funny ones. The instant bestseller from the star of Netflix's The Duchess, 8 Out of 10 Cats, Your Face or Mine and host of All That Glitters. Jessica’s close friends at the restaurant were understandably hysterical, so many of them went either home or to the police station. Some of the other girls would hide away to have private conversations with their closer friends but Jessica included anyone at the table without bias. Presumably, if you are going to read the book, you are like me a fan of Katherine and through her great podcast, also a fan of Violet.