Last month we were deeply shooketh by the news that angelic Hollywood couple Anna Faris and Chris Pratt had called it quits.
me pretending my heart isn’t broken
The couple – who married in 2009 and are parents to adorable, spectacle-wearing toddler Jack – proved love is just a horrid mirage when they announced their split on the ‘gram on August 7.
The internet (understandably) went into meltdown mode.
Around the same time, Faris revealed that she’d just finished scribing her debut book, Unqualified.
Set for release this October, Unqualified is a comic memoir covering all things love and life, with a foreword by Pratt. It comes off the back of Faris’ successful podcast of the same name, where she interviews other “Hollywood types” about their love lives.
Cosmo has published a fresh little snippet from the book, and in it, Faris doesn’t mince words and dissects female friendships, her relationship with Pratt and how she finally realised “being a guy’s girl” ain’t all its cracked up to be.
She starts:
In my 20s, I thought it was cool to say I was a guys’ girl. I didn’t realise until later how lame I sounded, bragging as though having a lot of girlfriends was a bad thing.
Back then, I thought that having the approval of my stoner guy friends was of greater value than having the approval of beautiful blonde sorority girls, so I touted my male friends as if my association with them spoke to how cool I really was. I was selling my own gender down the river, and I wasn’t even getting any fulfilment from the relationships with those dudes.
She goes on to describe that the reason she didn’t have any girlfriends was because she was “angry and jealous”.
The truth of why I didn’t have girlfriends probably had nothing to do with my being a guys’ girl and everything to do with the fact that I was angry and jealous and unduly proud of the guys I was hanging out with … It takes vulnerability of spirit to open yourself up to other women in a way that isn’t competitive, and that’s especially hard in Hollywood, where competition is built into almost every interaction.
But here’s the real party! pic.twitter.com/H1bmS5Y2Uu
— Anna Faris (@AnnaFaris) October 26, 2016
She also touches on her relationship with Pratt, explaining that she reckons you can’t rely on your spouse or loved one to be your emotional anchor in every facet of life.
I was once told that I didn’t need a tight group of girlfriends because Chris should be my best friend. But I never bought that. The idea of your mate being your best friend — it’s overhyped. I really believe that your partner serves one purpose and each friend serves another. There’s the friend you confess things to and the friend with whom you do the listening. Or this is the person I talk to when I’m feeling lonely and sad, this is the person I talk to about work shit, and this is the friend I’m still in touch with because we grew up together.
Her sentiments are reminiscent of that killer scene in Gone Girl, where Gillian delivers that hectic monologue on playing “The Cool Girl” who “adores football, poker and dirty jokes, who plays videogames and chugs beer”.
Moral of the story? Guys are dope but so are women and pizza.
Unqualified is out October 24.
