Juicy: Confessions of a Former Baseball Wife
by Jessica Canseco
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Author: Jessica CansecoEdition: Hardcover
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Published: 2005-09-01
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 256
Book Reviews of Juicy: Confessions of a Former Baseball Wife
Book Review: Like a Twinkie, satisfying at first...
Summary: 1 Stars
...but then you're left with a bad taste in your mouth.
I've read a few of these autobiographies from trophy wives of stars and they're pretty much all the same, and all have the same themes. Let me sum this book (and about 3 others) up for you, to save you some time:
- Don't hate me because I'm beautiful, I had a tough childhood
- It's really, really difficult for me because no one takes me seriously, because I am just so much prettier than everyone else
- I spend more on clothes, beauty products, and spa treatments each month than 5 average families spend on food and rent
- The only wage-paying job I've ever had involved me showing off my amazing body, but again, don't hate me because I'm beautiful
- I really thought my incredibly handsome husband who couldn't keep his pants zipped for FIVE MINUTES before we were married would be faithful to me! And I was totally heartbroken when he cheated!
- Even though I ditch my kid(s) with the nanny every chance I get, my children are my life! And I am such a great mother I could win awards!
- I would LOVE to get a real job and support myself like a normal person, but going back to school is just too hard, so I'll keep living off the alimony, thanks. That is, until I can find a new rich guy to pick up the tab of my incredibly shallow and image-focused lifestyle.
Yawn. Jessica Canseco obviously has some big issues with Jose and wants to make him look bad, but just makes herself look like a gold-digging bimbo. I mainly read this looking for some kind of input from a baseball wife on the whole steroids-in-baseball issue but all I got out of this about that was: people in baseball do steroids. I did learn a lot about how baseball wives have tons of unnecessary plastic surgery when they get bored.
I will say that Jessica does seem self-aware about the shallowness of her life in some points, but in others just seems completely self-absorbed and clueless. The book was very obviously ghostwritten, and despite that, the platitudes and therapy-speak still get very old fast.
I think books like this are valuable for one reason, and that is to serve as cautionary tales for women who follow celebrity men around thinking they are one wild night away from the good life. Jessica may have been rich but her life seems incredibly empty and devoid of meaning to me. No wonder these trophy wives are so anxious to have kids - they probably need something, ANYTHING, to latch onto to give their lives some kind of shape or meaning. If this is grabbing the brass ring, I'm happy to be living in the slow lane of life because no amount of money is worth giving up your self-respect, in my opinion. It's too bad so many other women don't feel the same way.
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