Molly Ringwald turns 40, reinvents herself on the page

Posted at 11:05 AM Jan 28, 2009

By Sharon Steel

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Pretend you're Molly Ringwald. You were the ultimate Brat Packer, and now you play a Mom on The Secret Life of American Teenagers (is anyone watching this show?). Your past career was basically about being young and nuts, and your current one is about managing someone else who is young and nuts. What do you do? You write a book about how to reform your identity in a youth-obsessed culture that you helped define! Of course. Ringwald may have turned 40, but she isn't mourning the extra 24 candles:

Forty is fine! Forty is great. I'm writing a book about it, to be published by HarperCollins in fall '09. Really, I am! Not just about 40, but people who are of my generation, catching up and what that's like and how you have to reidentify yourself at that age in a culture that's pretty youth-driven.
Little did we know Ringwald has actually been writing profiles and book reviews for The Hartford Courant and The Journal News in Westchester County! 

Ally Sheedy, Ringwald's The Breakfast Club co-star, wrote her first book, She Was Nice to Mice, at the precocious age of twelve. It's about a lady mouse who is transported to England at the time of Elizabeth I's reign.

We're still waiting for Jon Cryer's memoirs.

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