She has quite the attitude on MTV -- she's bold, hardworking, and doesn't care what anyone has to say to her. Actually, she has an out-of-control personality.
But Kelly Cutrone wasn't always the go-getter she is today. And she isn't really a woman with a psycho attitude either.
Cutrone discusses the start of her career and adult life in "If You Have to Cry, Go Outside, and Other Things Your Mother Never Told You."
This book will make anyone who has watched her on MTV's "The Hills" and "The City" have a different opinion of her.
What isn't revealed about her on TV is found within the pages of her book -- she's a small-town girl from right outside of Syracuse, she went to college for nursing, she was held at knifepoint by her ex-husband and then thrown down a flight of stairs. Every page shows how Kelly became Kelly.
Her words of wisdom come from past successful experiences and screwing up over the years. Cutrone doesn't "fake it to make it" anymore, and she takes the readers of her book through how she has made it in the public relations and fashion world.
From finding a job, to marriage and divorce, to affording the expensive lifestyle in New York City, to spirituality and religion -- Cutrone touches upon everything in her book. Even subjects like being honest with yourself and not psyching yourself out.
"You can either let someone be protected from reality or let them be sculpted and birthed by it," Cutrone writes in the book.
The best part about Cutrone's life adventure is that it's realistic. She tells stories of successes and failures, and not once does she say that when success started for her that it continued and grew -- because that's not true. She tripped and fell, she was on a roller coaster ride, she climbed the ladder and then was pushed off and she was hit hard by life's realities. One day Cutrone was living in Syracuse, the next she was in New York being evicted from her apartment and having to live on a friend's couch. One day she was in Manhattan living the start of a professional life and the next she was reading tarot cards in California.
Success starts somewhere, and then it goes places. Cutrone's "tough love" on TV to her employees is nothing compared to the tough love she gives to herself -- but after her life's adventures, she shows how well she has it together.
This is a book that everyone who hopes to or is working in advertising, marketing, journalism, public relations or fashion should read. Cutrone's spirited attitude jumps out from every page.
She doesn't tell how people how to live their lives -- she simply talks about what she has found that works for her and how it could very well work for others. She doesn't sugar-coat anything and she says it how it is. Who doesn't respect a woman who does that?
Grade: A+
