My Foot Is Too Big for the Glass Slipper — A Guide to the Less Than Perfect Life

Bestselling fitness expert and beach volleyball icon Gabby Reece uses her own less-than-perfect life to deliver a brutally honest, wickedly funny, and realistic view of motherhood and marriage.

Much has happened to Gabrielle Reece since her 1997 bestseller Big Girl in the Middle. She’s still gorgeous, still 6’3”, and a dominant force on and off the beach, but in the last fifteen years, she’s settled down with world-class surfer Laird Hamilton and raised three stunning blonde girls.

Her life might seem like a fairy tale from afar, but four years after her picture-perfect Hawaiian marriage to Laird, Gabrielle filed for divorce. In the end, the couple worked it out, but My Foot Is Too Big for the Glass Slipper tells the unvarnished and often hilarious tale of the turbulent ups and downs that beset every wife and mother—even the women like Gabrielle who seem to have it all.

Reece writes with wicked humor and down-to-earth wit about how she handles the sometimes mind-numbing details of domestic life, and she turns the notion that women can “have it all” on its head. As Gabby dismantles the notion of happily ever after, she gives readers plenty of concrete takeaways about how to deal. She underscores the notion that you have to make yourself happy before you can make anyone else happy.

My Foot Is Too Big for the Glass Slipper is an irresistible, hilarious, and helpful portrait of the humor, grace, and humility it really takes to stay sane given the challenges of being a modern wife and mother.

Gabrielle Reece is a former women’s beach volleyball star, television host, fashion model,?fitness expert, and author of Big Girl in the Middle.?She was?named one of the “20 Most Influential Women in Sports,” by Women’s Sports and Fitness, and one of the top five most beautiful women in the world by Elle magazine.?Gabby recently?appeared?as a trainer on NBC’s The Biggest Loser.?She is married to professional surfer Laird Hamilton.?They have three daughters.

Karen Karbo’s?first novel, Trespassers Welcome Here, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Village Voice Top Ten Book of the Year.?Her 2004 memoir, The Stuff of Life, was a New York Times Notable Book, a People magazine critics’ choice,?and a winner of the Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction.?Her?writing has appeared in?Elle, Vogue, Esquire, Outside, The New York Times, and?Salon.com.?She lives in Portland, Oregon.