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  Anna Faris is an actress, producer, and top-rated podcaster. Her podcast, Anna Faris Is Unqualified, averages 4 million downloads a month. Faris currently stars on the CBS hit comedy Mom and has had memorable roles on Entourage and Friends. She most recently starred in MGM/Pantelion Films' remake of Overboard alongside Eugenio Derbez. Faris produced and starred in The House Bunny and What's Your Number and her additional films include the Scary Movie franchise, Lost in Translation, The Dictator, Observe and Report, Brokeback Mountain, Just Friends, Smiley Face, Keanu, and the Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs franchise. A native of Washington State, she lives in Los Angeles with her family.

• Unqualified - http://www.unqualified.com/about/

  My credentials: I am a solid 3.4 student with a major in English from the University of Washington. It only took five years of dorm/rave life for me to accrue the life knowledge I have received.

  I’m a Sagittarius, which means I’m super creative and stubborn; but there are walls I need to break down because I always want to leap over the boundaries that make me climb ladders and roofs. I’m agreeable and delightful. I also have incredible leadership skills and following abilities. And, I have 20/20 vision so I’m an eagle eye.

  I could not love all of you more and please e-mail me at questions@unqualified.com with your pressing relationship questions.

  For more details visit my contact page: http://www.unqualified.com/contact/

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  Anna Faris
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  Overview (4)
  Born November 29, 1976 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA
  Birth Name Anna Kay Faris
  Nickname Baltimore's-Best-Beautiful-Blonde
  Height 5' 4" (1.63 m)
  Mini Bio (1)

  Anna Kay Faris was born on November 29, 1976 in Baltimore, Maryland, to Karen (Bathurst), a special education teacher, and Jack Faris, a sociologist. She was raised in Edmonds, Washington. Her ancestry includes English, German, Scottish, French, Dutch, and Welsh.

  Anna started acting very young but not professionally. She loved watching theatrical plays and eventually produced one of her own with all the neighborhood children, in her immediate environment. She was always encouraged with the emphasis that she wasn't just "pretending" but rather being an unpaid producer, director, writer and an actress.

  Her first paid job was at the Seattle Repertory Theatre at age nine. She loved it and did other local plays and readings. After graduating from the University of Washington in English Literature, she decided to leave for London to work and write, but after filming (the less than wonderful) Lovers Lane (2000) and a short for the Seattle Film Festival, she decided to give Los Angeles a try. She signed up with a wonderful management agency and before she could catch her breath, Keenen Ivory Wayans cast her in heavy, hard & comedy movie (to some people, it is almost too horrific), Scary Movie (2000) & its sequel movies.

  She never takes anything for granted and just feels so very fortunate to have been given a chance. (An example was her trying to thank all the journalists and photographers that came to the New York premiere.)

  Anna has been married to actor Chris Pratt since 2009. The couple have a son. They separated in 2017.

  - IMDb Mini Biography By: Karen Faris (Mother), Todd C. & Miles of T.U.A.F.E.
  Spouse (2)
  Chris Pratt (9 July 2009 - present) (filed for divorce) (1 child)
  Ben Indra (3 June 2004 - 19 February 2008) (divorced)
  Trade Mark (2)
  Blonde hair and blue eyes
  Frequently appears in comedies
  Trivia (25)
  Her parents are Karen Faris and Jack Faris. Has one brother named Robert Faris. All are sociologists.
  Ranked #57 on Maxim magazine's Hot 100 Women of 2004 list.
  Graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in English Literature.
  Spoofs Charlie's Angels (2000) in two films: first, in Scary Movie 2 (2001), as Cindy Campbell (poking fun at Drew Barrymore's chair escape scene), and again in Lost in Translation (2003), as starlet Kelly (in the press conference for her action movie with "Keanu").
  Grew up in Edmonds, Washington.
  Had only done dramatic plays and films before she got her role in Scary Movie (2000).
  (January 29, 2009) Engaged to Chris Pratt.
  Was recommended for the role of Erica on Friends (1994) by Matthew Perry who was a huge fan of her work in Lost in Translation (2003).
  Is a huge fan of Parker Posey.
  Is two years older than Topher Grace who plays her twin brother in Take Me Home Tonight (2011).
  Not related to Sean Faris.
  Grew up in the same neighborhood as her The House Bunny (2008) co-star, Katharine McPhee, but never met until filming began.
  Ranked #44 on Maxim magazine's Hot 100 Women of 2011 list.
  She is also a singer.
  She has Dutch, English, French, German, Scottish and Welsh ancestry.
  Her mother is a former special education instructor and her father is a sociologist.
  Anna and her husband, Chris Pratt, each had a dead bug collection before they met and they have since combined their collections.
  Has a son, Jack Pratt (b. August 25, 2012), with her estranged husband Chris Pratt.
  Returned to work 1 month after giving birth to her son Jack to begin filming Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013).
  Was 6 months pregnant with her son Jack when she completed filming on I Give It a Year (2013).
  Attended the premiere of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) and appeared on Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003). [September 2009]
  Son Jack was born 9 weeks premature weighing only three pounds. Faris and husband Chris Pratt were told by doctors that they should be prepared for maybe raising a special-needs child. However, Jack is not facing any limitation except for needing to undergo cosmetic surgery to correct his eyes and wearing glasses.
  Has appeared with Justin Long in four films: Waiting... (2005), Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009), Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (2011) and Movie 43 (2013).
  (December 1, 2017) Her husband of 8 years Chris Pratt filed for divorce from her following nearly a 5-month-long separation.
  Born on the same date as Chadwick Boseman.
  Personal Quotes (9)
  I try to keep my head on straight and take nothing for granted.
  I don't really like to go out to clubs or anything. It's just not my style. I'd much rather go to a dive bar or a local place. I just don't love feeling awful, having to tell people, "Hi, yeah, I was in Scary Movie (2000). Do you mind if we come in?". I mean, it's so awkward.
  I never imagined being able to make money from acting - and now I can.
  They've [the Scary Movie series] given me a career but they've also sort of boxed me in. What really surprised me when I first moved here is that the industry thought of actors as either comedic or dramatic. And I'm still confused. I understand that maybe some people are better at one or the other, but I can't understand why it's so divided. I've been able to chip away at that a bit; I think it gets easier as my body of work expands.
  Blythe Danner is somebody whose career I admire. She's a great actress and does good work, but also has a life of her own. I love my job but, at the end of the day, I want to come home and watch a movie and drink a bottle of wine with my husband.
  [on doing another Scary Movie (2000) sequel] After Scary Movie 3 (2003), I was like "No I'm done," but then I had so much fun making [Scary Movie 4 (2006)] that I think that I would. I would definitely be open to doing it.
  I was never the class clown or anything like that. When I was growing up and doing theatre in Seattle, I was always doing very dramatic work. Now I can't get a dramatic role to save my life!
  [on losing herself in her relationships]I made that mistake, I think, a little bit, like 'I'm checking my relationship off the list and if that would be the final piece of advice I could give you, that would be know your worth, know your independence.
  Life is too short to be in relationships where you feel this isn't fully right or somebody doesn't have your back, or somebody doesn't fully value you. Don't be afraid to feel your independence if things aren't right.
  Salary (2)
  What's Your Number? (2011) $1,750,000
  Mom (2013) $125,000 per episode (2013-2014)
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QUOTED: "lighthearted mix of autobiography and ruminations on love and relationships."

Unqualified
Publishers Weekly.
265.4 (Jan. 22, 2018): p80. From Book Review Index Plus. COPYRIGHT 2018 PWxyz, LLC http://www.publishersweekly.com/
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Anna Faris, read by the author. Penguin Audio, unabridged, 6 CDs, 6.5 hrs., $40 ISBN 978-15247-7880-4
Faris--actress, producer, and host of the Anna Paris Is Unqualified podcast--narrates this lighthearted mix of autobiography and ruminations on love and relationships. As narrator, Farris projects the down-to-earth persona that fans of her character on the sitcom Mom would expect, with whimsy mixed with grit. The podcast elements take on a conversational tone, with audience shout-outs and asides, while the memoir portions seem more like a traditional author-read audiobook production. The anecdotes from her marriage to actor Chris Pratt (which ended just before the book's publication) shift confusingly between past and present tense in the audiobook. But this ties into a recurring theme of Faris's narrative: that complete closure in matters of the heart doesn't really exist. The audiobook will likely be of greatest interest to fans of Faris's podcast, rather than finding a broader audience. A Dutton hardcover. (Oct.)
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
"Unqualified." Publishers Weekly, 22 Jan. 2018, p. 80. Book Review Index Plus,
http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A525839841/GPS?u=schlager&sid=GPS& xid=ab98b8c6. Accessed 24 Apr. 2018.
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QUOTED: "Faris' fans will likely enjoy this conversational first book."

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Kathy Sexton
Booklist.
114.1 (Sept. 1, 2017): p29. From Book Review Index Plus. COPYRIGHT 2017 American Library Association http://www.ala.org/aboutala/offices/publishing/booklist/
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Unqualified. By Anna Faris and Rachel Bertsche. Oct. 2017. 320p. Dutton, $28 (9781101986424). 791.4.
Actress and current star of the TV show Mom, Faris branched out to podcasting in 2015 with Anna Faris Is Unqualified, where she dispenses advice about relationships and which is the basis for this memoir--advice column. As the title implies, she has no professional experience or education in this field. She does have one failed marriage and one successful marriage, but what really makes her able to fulfill this role is her candidness. It's on display in chapters titled "Turning the Tables," where she answers the questions she usually poses to podcast guests; in bits called "Deal Breakers," "How Would You Proceed?" and "Not-So-Rapid-Fire"; as well as in chapters that address questions like "Should You Move for the Guy?" Interspersed throughout are stories of Faris' happy childhood in Washington State, her early breakthrough in Hollywood, and her marriage to fellow actor Chris Pratt (they have now separated), who writes the introduction. Faris' fans will likely enjoy this conversational first book, coauthored with Bertsche, but if she isn't readers' cup of tea, Unqualified probably won't be either. --Kathy Sexton
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
Sexton, Kathy. "Unqualified." Booklist, 1 Sept. 2017, p. 29. Book Review Index Plus,
http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A509161482/GPS?u=schlager&sid=GPS& xid=66b4efed. Accessed 24 Apr. 2018.
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QUOTED: "Faris ... does little to raise the bar of what can best be described as equal parts Hollywood coming-of-age story and celebrity-as- relationship-adviser brand-building exercise."
"a mildly compelling celebrity memoir."

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Faris , Anna: UNQUALIFIED
Kirkus Reviews.
(Aug. 15, 2017): From Book Review Index Plus. COPYRIGHT 2017 Kirkus Media LLC http://www.kirkusreviews.com/
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Faris , Anna UNQUALIFIED Dutton (Adult Nonfiction) $28.00 10, 24 ISBN: 978-1-101-98642-4
The comedic actress and podcaster reflects on her career journey and offers advice on relationships.In the effusive foreword to his wife's book, actor Chris Pratt notes that a similarity they share is their reliance on people's tendency to underestimate them--a possible hint for readers to anticipate something more than the routine narrative that follows. Faris, best known for her roles in the Scary Movie franchise and the TV sitcom Mom, does little to raise the bar of what can best be described as equal parts Hollywood coming-of-age story and celebrity-as- relationship-adviser brand-building exercise. The author's background story is fairly uneventful. She grew up in a Seattle suburb in a loving, supportive family. In high school and college, she appeared in a few local stage productions, which sparked a continued interest in acting, leading to auditions and minor film and TV work. After falling in love with a co-star from an early film, Ben Indra, she followed him to Hollywood, where she landed a few breakout film roles. Her eventual marriage to Indra didn't work out, but shortly thereafter, she met Pratt, and their relationship quickly blossomed and continues to endure. As a writer, Faris has her moments. She has an engaging voice and is capable of expressing a distinct point of view. She is most affecting in her occasionally bittersweet reflections, as she recounts stories about working in the industry, her anxieties and frustrations about auditioning, and the personal challenges of dealing with aging in Hollywood (she recently turned 40). Unfortunately, there are far too many self-conscious references to the fact that she's writing her first book. Her story is also loaded with unnecessary filler--e.g., chapters revolving around relationship themes and advice from her popular podcast Unqualified and random lists ("Sex on the Beach and Thirteen Other Things that Sound Better Than They Are") that are presumably intended to engage her podcast audience. A mildly compelling celebrity memoir primarily for fans of the author's podcast.
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
"Faris , Anna: UNQUALIFIED." Kirkus Reviews, 15 Aug. 2017. Book Review Index Plus,
http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A500364812/GPS?u=schlager&sid=GPS& xid=80fb61f0. Accessed 24 Apr. 2018.
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"Unqualified." Publishers Weekly, 22 Jan. 2018, p. 80. Book Review Index Plus, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A525839841/GPS?u=schlager&sid=GPS&xid=ab98b8c6. Accessed 24 Apr. 2018. Sexton, Kathy. "Unqualified." Booklist, 1 Sept. 2017, p. 29. Book Review Index Plus, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A509161482/GPS?u=schlager&sid=GPS&xid=66b4efed. Accessed 24 Apr. 2018. "Faris , Anna: UNQUALIFIED." Kirkus Reviews, 15 Aug. 2017. Book Review Index Plus, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A500364812/GPS?u=schlager&sid=GPS&xid=80fb61f0. Accessed 24 Apr. 2018.

• The Ringer
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  QUOTED: "Reading Unqualified often feels like eavesdropping on a therapy session; Faris does not soften some uncomfortable truths about herself."

  The Untapped and Overqualified Anna Faris
  The actress’s new memoir and her podcast are a revealing look at the beginning and end of her storybook marriage to Chris Pratt, how Hollywood boxes in aging women, and where to go after 40
  By Lindsay Zoladz Oct 26, 2017, 8:30am EDT
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  I will admit that the initial reason I picked up Anna Faris’s new book, Unqualified, was a little dubious, though probably not rare: I wanted to see what she had to say about Chris Pratt. This August, the affable, generally well-liked celebrity couple—both known, in Pratt’s words, for portraying “intelligently played idiots”—announced that they were splitting up after eight years of marriage. Faris had at that point already written a book based on her popular relationship-advice podcast Anna Faris Is Unqualified. After they announced their split, there was something morbidly intriguing about the fact that the book’s publication seemed to be going ahead as scheduled, especially since neither had spoken directly about their breakup in the months since first sharing the news on social media. Unqualified arrived in stores Tuesday, with a big, red cover line that now feels tragically self-defeating for a relationship-advice book: “FOREWORD BY CHRIS PRATT.” Imagine if, on the eve of Bossypants’ release, Tina Fey had been demoted.

  Indeed, the first words of Faris’s relationship-advice book come from her ex-husband. “When I was asked to write the [foreword] for Unqualified, Anna’s memoir,” Pratt begins, “I immediately said yes without even thinking about it. And boy did a lot happen between then and now. So much. Like … soooo much.”

  But that opening-page wink is misleading. Other than a few sentences about their relationship that seem to have been edited into past tense (Pratt calls her the “person I spent one amazing decade with, and will, for the rest of my life, amicably coparent a human,” referring to their 5-year-old son, Jack) their divorce goes completely unspoken, the elephant in the corner of the couples counseling room. This probably makes the book sound like a disaster—or at the very least foundationally dishonest. I’m pleasantly surprised to report that it’s not. Aside from its lack of salacious details about their split, Unqualified is observant, sharp, and startlingly revealing, not only about Faris’s romantic history, but of the broader discrepancies between modern male and female Hollywood stardom writ large.

  This won’t come as a surprise to anyone who’s read the classic, much-discussed 2011 New Yorker profile of Faris, in which the writer Tad Friend depicted her as a frank, particularly articulate avatar of the unfortunate obstacles women face in Hollywood. (“Studio executives believe that male moviegoers would rather prep for a colonoscopy than experience a woman’s point of view,” Friend wrote, “particularly if that woman drinks or swears or has a great job or an orgasm.”) The piece caught Faris at an odd moment in her career, as she prepped the sexually forthright and ultimately doomed romantic comedy What’s Your Number?, in which she costarred with a pre–Captain America Chris Evans. The profile ran shortly before the release of Bridesmaids—the movie that seemed, perhaps more at the time than in retrospect, like a paradigm shift for funny women in Hollywood—and Faris spoke more honestly and intelligently about film industry misogyny than most famous actresses at that time. (“I hated being on that movie so much I was glad when it bombed,” she said, of the cartoonishly sexist My Super Ex-Girlfriend.) The profile was both a bummer and a breath of fresh air.
  Anna Faris and Chris Pratt at the ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2’ premiere
  Photo by Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Disney

  What’s changed since then? Perhaps not as much for the state of women in Hollywood as for the state of Chris Pratt. When the profile ran, Faris was considerably more famous than her husband. (Friend made note of this: “When Pratt tidies the house, he often finds discarded scripts with cover notes offering his wife a million dollars—which to Pratt, a regular on the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation, seems like a lot of money.”) After toning up his every-dude physique for a serious role in 2012’s Zero Dark Thirty, Pratt, now 38, has suddenly catapulted into leading man roles in tentpole blockbusters like Jurassic World and Guardians of the Galaxy. He is, to put it mildly, likely now much less impressed by the idea of a million dollars, but some people also believe that, in becoming a more conventional movie star, he’s abandoned the schlubby charm that made him quintessentially Chris Pratt. Earlier this year, in a sharp critique titled “Chris Pratt Is Not a Movie Star,” The Ringer’s K. Austin Collins wrote that, in more high-budget fare, “Pratt has sometimes been reduced to a cipher: a living, breathing placeholder around which you can build a CGI universe full of dinosaurs, or whichever IP is the flavor of the season.”

  The reason so many people are so desperate to read the tea leaves of Pratt and Faris’s separation is that it seems to tell a familiar, eternally juicy Hollywood tale: Two actors break up when one becomes considerably more famous than the other. It feels unfairly simplistic to suggest that in the past few years, Pratt and Faris’s fortunes have reversed, especially since those are the few years since Faris gave birth to her son. But in broad strokes at least, it’s true: Faris now has the steady gig on a network sitcom, starring alongside Allison Janney on CBS’s Mom, and Pratt is busy making one on-location blockbuster after another. Part of the intrigue about their split comes from a lingering sense of gendered Hollywood injustice: Something about Pratt’s rise to superstardom feels easy, stumbled-into, and by default, while the party line on Faris is often that she, as a funny and talented actress, deserved more opportunities than provided in a system rigged against women.

  Perhaps the most revealing chapter in Unqualified is one that was clearly written before the breakup, a dialogue between Faris and Pratt titled “She Said, He Said: What It’s Like to Be a Couple in Hollywood.” Pratt recalls that when they met, in 2007, “I was early on in my career at that point, and mine began totally differently than yours did. You crushed it right away and hit it big right out of the gate. I didn’t have that. And there were definitely moments when I felt like Jason Segel’s character in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, like the boyfriend who held the purse on the sidelines and people didn’t really see me. Not that you ever made me feel like that, it was the people you introduced me to.”

  He adds, with a shrug, “But that’s the nature of Hollywood, to be honest.”

  In her book, Faris describes herself as a shy, awkward, and exceptionally short child who was occasionally bullied by the richer and more popular “mean girls” in her suburb outside of Seattle because she liked to do weird things like “play boat,” a game in which she sat on her bed in an inflatable raft and pretended she was traversing whitewater rapids. (In a poignantly funny early chapter, she attempts to get over her third-grade crush by writing his name on an orange and chucking the fruit into a nearby forest. Cathartic!) Young Anna was imaginative but self-serious; her early acting gigs were in Seattle-adjacent theater productions, and she once gave a local radio interview holding forth on “the industry” and her “passion” for acting, embarrassing her parents because they thought she sounded terribly pretentious for a sixth-grader. Although it’s somewhat surprising, given her innate comic talent and exceptional timing, she was not trained in stand-up or improv and had no intention of being a comedian. She was not even sure until her early twenties that she wanted to pursue acting professionally; she studied English at the University of Washington and, until she graduated in 1999, did little more than local commercials. Her first big movie role came as a fluke, and it surprised even the people who knew her best. When she was cast as the wide-eyed Cindy Campbell in 2000’s surprise smash Scary Movie, she recalls breaking the news over the phone to her best friend, who responded not with joy but concern. “But Anna,” she said, “you’re not funny.”

  She is though, wildly so—and it’s all the more remarkable that Anna Faris discovered this at the same moment as the rest of the world. Faris has a knack for embodying stereotypically degraded feminine roles—a hapless Playboy bunny, a vapid pop star, an airheaded stoner—with a warm fullness of character and an anarchic energy. This was not quite yet on display in the Scary Movie franchise (she appeared in installments 1 through 4), and director Keenen Ivory Wayans later admitted to her that the reason he hired her was, “Because you had no idea what you were doing.” Scary Movie afforded her visibility; proving her chops was another matter. As she appeared in early-aughts fare like The Hot Chick, her mother often softened her praise with a bittersweet refrain: “You are so untapped, Anna.”
  Anna Faris standing next to a poster for ‘The House Bunny’
  Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images

  Faris stretched her range as a scene-stealer. She was brilliant in a mostly improvised bit part in 2003’s Lost in Translation, satirizing a ditzy actress; an impressed Bill Murray kept asking director Sofia Coppola, “Why don’t I have more scenes with her?” She turned down the lead in the romantic comedy Just Friends to play a more comedically meaty role as a ridiculous, Britney-esque pop star. (“There’s a lot of liberation in playing supporting characters and not the lead,” she writes in Unqualified.) When she was finally ready to helm a film on her own, though, she wanted to make sure she had some degree of creative control. She brought the idea of The House Bunny to Legally Blonde writers Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten “Kiwi” Smith (a close friend who now appears regularly on Faris’s podcast), and they pitched it 19 times before it was picked up by Adam Sandler’s production company, Happy Madison Productions. When it was released, it earned $70 million worldwide—an especially respectable sum for an ensemble comedy about women released in 2008.

  In The House Bunny, Faris played Shelley, a perky former pin-up who, after she is kicked out of the Playboy Mansion, becomes a sorority house mother. After reading Unqualified, though, the real-life college-age Faris seemed much closer to the dark, rebellious, academic-minded feminist played in the film by Kat Dennings, who constantly frames her forays into sorority life as “research” for her gender studies classes. (In a somewhat self-lacerating chapter called “Proud and Angry,” Faris says that in college she would sometimes perform “field studies” at fraternity parties, pretending to be an underage girl and seeing if men would still try to flirt with her. “I just used it as proof that guys were as scummy as I thought they were,” she writes.) As a woman in Hollywood who’d just turned 30, though, it’s hard not to read some autobiography into Faris’s idea for The House Bunny. In one of the opening scenes, Shelley is cast out of the Playboy Mansion because she’s just turned the decrepit, old age of 27. Explains a male employee of the mansion, “That’s 59 in bunny years.”

  A year before The House Bunny, Faris met Chris Pratt on the set of the ’80s rom-com spoof Take Me Home Tonight. She was 30 and had been married for two and a half years to an actor named Ben Indra, although she admits in Unqualified that their relationship was by then falling apart. Pratt was a 27-year-old character actor best known for his role on the CW teen drama Everwood and a stint on the fourth season of The O.C. They clicked instantly, though first as friends. “He was hooking up with some of the cute background actresses,” Faris writes, “and I eventually started acting as his wingwoman.” Faris, though, found herself jealous of these other actresses, and her acknowledgment of her feelings for Pratt led her to accelerate the process of leaving Indra. “We hadn’t been happy for a while,” she writes of her first husband, “but the reality is that if I hadn’t met Chris, my first marriage probably would have lasted until I found a different someone else.”

  Reading Unqualified often feels like eavesdropping on a therapy session; Faris does not soften some uncomfortable truths about herself. And so she adds, of her early days with Pratt, “Sure, I get to proclaim I didn’t fuck Chris before I left Ben, but what is there to celebrate in that? It didn’t make me a hero. After all, I wanted to. Desperately. I had feelings for him, obviously, even if I wasn’t honest with myself about what those were. So while I didn’t cheat, I’m not completely innocent, either.”

  Still, she and Pratt became serious quickly. They married in 2009, the same year he landed the role of the lovable schlub Andy Dwyer on Parks and Recreation. In the “She Said, He Said” chapter, she tells Pratt of their early years, “You weren’t a household name yet, but I knew it was coming … That’s how I felt when I first met you. Like I was in on something.”

  The House Bunny was successful, and it proved that Faris could not only star in a studio film but, as a coproducer, carry an idea to fruition. Still, rather than continuing to ride that trajectory to the A-list, the next few years of Faris’s career were filled with ambitious flops (What’s Your Number?, which she once again coproduced), questionable casting choices (starring opposite Seth Rogen in Observe and Report, which included a disturbingly jokey date rape scene Faris said she later regretted), and, for good measure, a few kids movies (Yogi Bear, Alvin and the Chipmunks, and Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs) that did not exactly boost her persona as a mature comedic heroine.

  Around the same time Faris’s career hit a rough patch, Pratt began his transition, as Entertainment Weekly put it in his first cover-story headline, “from Zero to Hero.” After supporting roles in Moneyball and Zero Dark Thirty, Pratt got leading dude-toned for his star turn in Guardians of the Galaxy—a smash hit that became 2014’s highest-grossing movie. That year he also voiced the lead in the massively successful The Lego Movie, meaning that he starred in two of the year’s highest-grossing films.

  Pratt had an undeniably meteoric 2014, which was the year he turned 35—magazine covers touted his rapid “rise,” as if he were an overnight It Boy. Thirty-five was also a pivotal age for Faris: It’s when she became pregnant with her first child. She was chagrined to learn that being 35 meant that her pregnancy qualified as a “geriatric pregnancy,” a term that she says made her envision “a ninety-year-old grandmother with a watermelon under her girdle.” Jack Pratt was born two months premature, and the most harrowing parts of Unqualified are about his difficult birth and the month the couple spent visiting him in the NICU before they could take him home. (Now 5, Jack is healthy and wears maybe the most adorable glasses in all of Hollywood.)

  “Sometimes I feel like I don’t have the career that I used to, and I do have moments of insecurity about that,” Faris admits to Pratt in that She Said, He Said chapter. “I’m so thrilled and grateful that you are doing the things you are … but it can be hard not to have a moment of self-doubt when my husband is acting with young women in big movies and I’m playing a role in Mom that, while I love it, is incredibly unsexy.”
  Anna Faris and Allison Janney
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  Last year, Pratt experienced his first big-budget flop, the clunky space-flick punchline Passengers, in which his love interest was played by then-26-year-old Jennifer Lawrence. Stoked by little more than pictures of them looking like they were having a good time on the red carpet, rumors flew that Pratt and Lawrence were having an affair. Faris directly dispels them in Unqualified, but she says that, before Pratt and Lawrence even met, her publicist pulled her aside and gave her some tough advice: “Anna, listen, there are going to be paparazzi all over them. There are going to be shots of them laughing together on their way to set. There are going to be stories circulating, and you have to brace yourself for this.” This publicist was correct.

  One of the most brutally honest chapters in Faris’s book is titled “Forty,” the age she turned last November. “There is no question that women are strapped to a timeline,” she writes, “and one that is largely dictated by outside forces. The silver lining, if you really look for it, is that ‘the timeline’ can make you even more career-driven and focused, cultivating an eye-on-the-prize mentality that was a benefit to me.” Knowing this, it’s easy to see why someone as ambitious as Anna Faris got famous before Chris Pratt: She was smart enough to know the depressing fact that there is a pressure on women in Hollywood to hustle and get work while they’re young, before all the good roles start to disappear. Pratt, like many actors with his roguish charm, can conduct a career at the pace of someone reluctantly rolling out of bed. He can be a rising star in his late 30s, though it’s harder to imagine many of his female costars enjoying the same luxury of time. Sometimes for better, but largely for worse, a woman always knows what time it is.

  “Because today,” Faris writes, from a place of experience, “it’s still completely usual to have a fifteen-year [age] difference [in a movie] and nobody bats an eye. As long as the man is the older one, that is.” A cruel irony hovers over Unqualified: If for some reason it were ever optioned as a film loosely based on its author’s life, they’d probably find someone at least a decade younger to play her. Her ex-husband, presumably, would be allowed to play himself.

  On the latest episode of Anna Faris Is Unqualified, Faris discussed the allegations against Harvey Weinstein and the conversation that they’ve prompted about sexual misconduct in Hollywood. She took an emotional call from a listener in London who had experienced similar problems in her life, and then Faris told a story about being sexually harassed by a director on one of her films. While she was standing on a ladder, the director slapped her ass in front of the entire crew. “All I could do was giggle,” Faris said. “I remember looking around and I remember seeing the crew members being like, ‘Wait, what are you going to do about that? That seemed weird.’ And that’s how I dismissed it. I was like, ‘Well, this isn’t a thing. Like, it’s not that big of a deal. Buck up, Faris. Like, just giggle.’ But it made me feel small. He wouldn’t have done that to the lead male.”

  Anna Faris Is Unqualified often feels like a cross between Savage Love and a UCB improv show. Faris and her celebrity guests play games like “Dealbreakers” and take calls from listeners looking for advice about relationships and sex, and they provide often disarmingly earnest answers. Even when she’s not asking questions, the format allows her guests to reveal incredibly intimate things about themselves: A notorious episode from last year made it quite obvious to anyone listening that Chris Evans and Jenny Slate were dating. Faris’s presence is goofy—as anyone familiar with her voice work knows, she’s got a great, expressive podcast voice—but also deeply committed to the task at hand, and, as with her book, she doesn’t use humor to divert from going too deep emotionally. Across her recent projects, Faris consistently strikes you as a real, flawed, and ultimately likable human being.

  The career she’s carved out does not currently seem as splashy or high-profile as Pratt’s, but it seems more personally tailored to her, and in a place as competitive as Hollywood, that’s a too-often overlooked definition of success. She will return to movies next year, when she stars in a remake of the 1987 Goldie Hawn vehicle Overboard, and she’s expressed interest in continuing to produce. She wants to give Broadway a try, too. Through the past few weeks, though, the fallout from the Weinstein scandal has at least planted a small hope that irrevocable change may be coming in the movie industry, and it is perhaps only a little naive to think the industry is becoming a more welcoming place for a woman as savvy, hilarious, and bullshit-averse as Anna Faris.

  Toward the end of Unqualified, Faris looks back on the past decade as a time of asserting more creative control over her career. When she looks ahead, she’s defiantly hopeful—Hollywood’s timeline be damned.

  “But more interesting than my 40s, I think, is thinking about when I’m 60 and imagining what that looks like,” she writes. “I’ll channel Annette Bening, who is the most stunning almost-60-year-old in existence. My strategy will be to fake it till I make it and just be brimming with sexual confidence.”

  She adds, with earned optimism, “I’ve got 20 years to get there.”

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  This is why Anna Faris is "so scared" to have her book released next month
  Jill Layton
  September 05, 2017 3:40 pm

  Anna Faris isn’t just one of the funniest ladies on TV — she also runs her own podcast called Anna Faris is Unqualified, and she’s a first-time author. Faris’ book is set to be released into the world next month, but you guys, she’s feeling very scared about it, and we totally understand the feeling.

  The book, also titled Anna Faris is Unqualified, was written before the public announcement of her divorce from Chris Pratt back in August, and it has since gained a lot of attention because of it. Which is good for the book, but not great for…well…feelings — especially since Pratt wrote the forward in the book.

  But Faris is nervous for her book to be released for other reasons as well, as she discussed in the latest episode of her podcast, which you should definitely check out if you haven’t already. Have we mentioned that she’s hilarious?

  “I’m excited and when I first got the book deal, I thought, ‘What a great adventure this is going to be,’ and now that it’s getting closer, I feel nervous in a sense that I’ve always been able to hide behind characters. And now it’s like, this is me. It feels a little scary,” she said, during the latest episode of Anna Faris Is Unqualified.

  Just like the podcast, the totally relatable book is a mix of anecdotes and advice.

  It touches on her childhood, when she was “a really quiet kid with headgear” who suddenly became “an actress in L.A. and sort of how I haven’t felt comfortable in my own skin, and learning to do that.”

  She added, "Dear listeners: I would love it so much if you picked up my book. But please know, I am so scared. I feel like leaving the country for a little while. I’m breaking into a sweat.”

  Anna Faris is Unqualified is scheduled to be released on October 24th, and is available for pre-order now.

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  QUOTED: "Rabid conjecture over the cause of their divorce has made Unqualified one of the most anticipated movie star memoirs in recent memory."
  "Those who pick up Unqualified hoping for insight as to what exactly broke up this beloved couple will be out of luck; Faris is consummately classy. The only criticism she makes of her former husband is that he was late for their first few dates, but has since improved his punctuality. Whatever happened (and to be honest, it’s none of our business), Unqualified speaks to the fragility of romantic partnerships, whether they belong to celebrities or civilians."

  Anna Faris's memoir is a fascinating case study on the politics of memoir, marriage and celebrity
  Sarah Sahagian: Unqualified, Faris's memoir, speaks to the fragility of romantic partnerships, whether they belong to celebrities or civilians
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  Anna Faris’s new book, Unqualified, is a cut above the usual celebrity memoir. The entertainer’s autobiography cum romantic advice book – based on her podcast of the same name – presents readers with a fascinating case study on the politics of memoir, marriage and celebrity.

  An actress known for her energetic performances, Faris has become a staple of the comedy genre through memorable roles from the TV show Friends, the movie Just Friends and her current CBS sitcom, Mom. Faris occasionally produces her own projects too, such as the sorority comedy The House Bunny. And of course, she’s one of the most popular podcasters around, each week doling out sassy advice to adoring fans who phone in for her opinions on sex and romance.

  In addition to her robust career, you probably know Faris because of her highly publicized marriage to – and divorce from – fellow actor Chris Pratt. After more than a decade spent toiling as a supporting character in shows such as Everwood and Parks and Recreation, Pratt became an international movie star with the release of Marvel’s Guardians of The Galaxy in 2014. This helped transform Faris and Pratt into one of the most famous celebrity couples on the planet. Much of her book is about their fairytale marriage, a subject of great speculation from fans given the couple’s unexpected split. Rabid conjecture over the cause of their divorce has made Unqualified one of the most anticipated movie star memoirs in recent memory.
  Chris Pratt and Faris at the world premiere of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 in 2017. FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images

  To be fair to Faris, Unqualified‘s now-ironic odes to her previous partner are not the only reason to buy her book. She has a voice – and it’s both entertaining and endearing. She’s an adorable oversharer who discusses everything from her “first finger bang” to the terror she felt going into premature labour with her son, Jack. She also provides thought-provoking wisdom on how to select a boyfriend: “Basically the only profession you can or should date is a woodworker, or a guy who makes boats.” There’s even a surprisingly body-positive chapter on her decision to get a breast enhancement at 30. Admittedly, however, Faris’s marriage to Pratt does receive pride of place.

  Any celebrity obsessive will know how the cuddly red carpet pictures of Faris and Pratt on Instagram have been held up as #relationshipgoals for much of the past decade. Buzzfeed eventually cemented their status as an aspirational couple by publishing a list of “21 Times Chris Pratt and Anna Faris Revived Our Faith in Love.” Faris’s book definitely feeds into the idea that theirs is/was a blessed union. She actually refers to Pratt as “funny and hot and kind,” a “unicorn” who changed her outlook on life and love in the wake of her failed marriage to actor Ben Indra.

  While the mentions of Pratt are glowing, there are some signs the book was revised after their separation. When referring to her relationship with Pratt, Faris alternates between using the past and present tenses, as though she herself is uncertain of their relationship status. Regardless of its source, this fluctuation reflects the confusion many of us face upon a long-term relationship ending. Telling tense shifts aside, Unqualified unequivocally describes Pratt as an ideal second husband who sent his wife flowers at the end of each week, did household chores with aplomb, and even wrote the foreword for her book.

  But the fact that Faris and Pratt’s marriage didn’t make it to the publication of her book begs the question: Is Unqualified itself proof that most celebrity couples live behind a facade, posting lovey-dovey photos of themselves on the red carpet when they secretly go home to separate bedrooms? Or is Unqualified instead a portrait of a genuinely happy marriage that, between submitting the manuscript and its publication, disintegrated the way so many other relationships do?

  Those who pick up Unqualified hoping for insight as to what exactly broke up this beloved couple will be out of luck; Faris is consummately classy. The only criticism she makes of her former husband is that he was late for their first few dates, but has since improved his punctuality. Whatever happened (and to be honest, it’s none of our business), Unqualified speaks to the fragility of romantic partnerships, whether they belong to celebrities or civilians.

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  Chris Pratt and wife Anna Faris say they are done in posts with one telling difference

  As a genre, memoir is itself an ephemeral beast. It demands self-reflexivity and honesty. It can require one to delve back into some of their unhappiest moments, as Faris does when she recounts the dysfunctional romantic relationships of her teens and 20s. However, once a memoir is completed, it is also instantaneously outdated. The author continues to live their life, and as said life goes on, happy endings can be undone – and redone – numerous times.

  Like items placed in a time capsule, the memoir is an artifact of who someone was when they wrote it, not who they’ll be when we read it. For memoirists who are not Hollywood celebrities, this presents less of a problem; we do not immediately hear when Jowita Bydlowska or Mary Carr makes a major change.

  It is because Anna Faris is so famous that readers already know her life will look different in the sequel.

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  Anna Faris Gushing Over Chris Pratt in New Memoir Will Break Your Heart All Over Again
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  When Anna Faris and Chris Pratt announced that they were legally separating after eight years of marriage in August, the Internet collectively mourned the death of love in Hollywood. To add insult to injury, Faris's memoir, Unqualified, out today from Dutton, not only features a foreword by her ex—it's chock-full of gushy quotes about him, plus loads of love and relationship advice for how to make a marriage work. Here, we rounded up the 10 sweetest sentiments from the actress's new book. Get out the Kleenex.
  She dedicated the book to Pratt.

  1. "To Chris. Your wisdom and strength have made me a better person."
  She consistently comments on his good qualities.

  2. "When I met Chris, the most striking thing about him was that he knew how to be happy and he knew how to make the best out of a bad day."
  Pratt was a doting husband and father-to-be when she went into premature labor.

  3. "He decorated my room with posters and photos and he came to the hospital every night after work with desserts for me and, sometimes, a six-pack of beer for himself, and he'd just sit with me and hold my hand or crawl into my bed."

  RELATED: Anna Faris Is Dating Again After Split from Chris Pratt
  She's in complete awe of his acting skills.

  4. "I was taken by your talent immediately, because I'd never worked with anyone as good as you."
  Pratt is the consummate romantic.

  5. "Chris wrote me poems and sent me letters from wherever he was in the world, on hotel stationary."
  He has an artistic side, too.

  6. "About a year and a half ago, he drew a picture of himself on our bathroom mirror with a love note, and the picture looked remarkably like him.

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  He never shied away from sweet gestures.

  7. "Every Friday before Mom tapings, Chris sent me a giant bouquet of flowers at the studio."
  She's thankful for Pratt's love.

  8. "Chris, thank you for an impossible amount of support and love."
  She still loves him as a person.

  9. "Thank you for being just about the best person I know."

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  There are not enough words to express their love.

  10. "I wish we had more words for love."

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  QUOTED: "Faris shares moments from their eight-year marriage and courtship in her comedic memoir, out Tuesday—and some gestures are so syrupy sweet you'll wonder why they've separated at all."

  6 times you'll relive Anna Faris, Chris Pratt's heartbreaking split in her book, 'Unqualified'
  Erin Jensen, USA TODAY Published 6:00 a.m. ET Oct. 24, 2017 | Updated 6:34 p.m. ET Oct. 24, 2017
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  Comedian, Mom, and Actress Anna Faris recently released her memoir, ‘Unqualified.’ USA TODAY

  Anna Faris and Chris Pratt may be starting new chapters since announcing their split in August, but in the actress' new book, Unqualified, it feels like they haven't turned the page.

  Faris shares moments from their eight-year marriage and courtship in her comedic memoir, out Tuesday — and some gestures are so syrupy sweet you'll wonder why they've separated at all.
  The book cover for Anna Faris' 'Unqualified' out Oct.

  The book cover for Anna Faris' 'Unqualified' out Oct. 24, 2017. (Photo: Dutton)

  1. The dedication

  The heartbreak starts as Faris dedicates the book to her ex. "To Chris," she writes. "Your wisdom and strength have made me a better person."

  2. The Foreword

  Though Pratt acknowledges that "soooo much" transpired between when Faris asked him to write the foreword and when he began to work on it, he said he obliged because "Anna is an important part of my life and she always will be."

  He adds, "I'm doing so because I love and respect her and told her I would."

  After praising the Mom star for pages, he promises readers they are in for an "interesting read," courtesy of the "person that I spent one amazing decade with."

  3. Their beginning

  Faris writes that Pratt was so perfect from the start, she thought he was too good to be true. "When I first met Chris, I was constantly looking for proof that he was not as great as he seemed," she says. The two met in 2007 while shooting Take Me Home Tonight, a film in which they played a couple. At the time, Faris was still married to her first husband, actor Ben Indra.

  Pratt's good deeds included spending "what felt like all day" trying to track down a credit card Faris forgot at Kmart and walking her home at night.

  During filming, Faris and Indra split and she and Pratt "grew closer."

  "You might think that, fresh off an almost decade-long relationship, I would be hesitant to move on to the next," she writes, "but I couldn't have fallen more headfirst into my feelings for Chris."
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  4. The detailing of Pratt's romantic gestures

  His thoughtful behavior continued, and Faris details it in a section called "This Is the Chapter That Will Make You Vomit."

  Faris says Pratt would send her poems and letters from across the globe. "They were like old-timey war letters that said things like, 'Honey, I'm dreaming of the day I get to hold you again,'" she writes.

  A long poem Pratt authored was framed in their house, she says.

  In addition to the written word, Pratt would woo her by sending "a giant bouquet" to the studio every Friday before she taped Mom.

  5. The chapter on their son, Jack Pratt

  Faris describes Pratt as "amazing" when she was admitted to the hospital and put on bed rest after her water broke at 30 weeks. In addition to sleeping with her in the hospital, Pratt adorned her room with photos and posters and brought her desserts nightly.

  She also writes she "felt so lucky" Pratt was her partner after being warned Jack had "some severe brain bleeding" and therefore might "be developmentally disabled."

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  6. The acknowledgments

  Pratt is the last person that she mentions in the book's acknowledgments, where she thanks him for flowers, finding the credit card, deer jerky and "an impossible amount of support and love."

  She adds, "Thank you for being just about the best person I know. I love you. I wish we had more words for love."

  More: Anna Faris breaks silence on Chris Pratt split: 'I made (mistakes)'

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  In her newly released memoir, Anna Faris removed a devastatingly hopeful chapter about her ex-husband Chris Pratt that was included in an early copy.

  In an uncorrected advance proof, sent to press two months before the couple announced their split in August, one chapter is dedicated to how the couple makes their relationship work long-distance while they’re filming.

  Faris, who wrote “Unqualified” while Pratt was on the “Passengers” press tour, details how they make sure to talk on the phone and take advantage of the times they do have together. Looking to the future, she also opens up about their plans to one day move back to Washington and live a low-key lifestyle.

  Those pages have disappeared from the final text.

  Faris, 40, and Pratt, 38 — who have a 5-year-old son named Jack — announced via Facebook they were separating after eight years together.

  “We tried hard for a long time, and we’re really disappointed,” they wrote in a joint statement. “Our son has two parents who love him very much, and for his sake we want to keep this situation as private as possible moving forward.”

  For the most part, Faris managed to keep her book — out this week — the same, though she changed her present-tense moments with Pratt to the past tense and left out some paragraphs that focus on the “Guardians of the Galaxy” actor.

  She axed a long passage about plans to have a second child with Pratt. In the preview copy, she mentions not feeling pressure to have another baby right away, but says she is considering freezing her eggs.

  Although they were broken up by the time the book was released, Pratt still wrote the foreword, although he amended it slightly after the early copy went out for review. After sources at the time of their split told Page Six the couple was driven apart by competition and fame, he added a paragraph which seemingly addressed the story.

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  At the end of the book, Faris updates readers by hinting that she’s ready to move on.

  “These days, I take comfort in the belief that there’s no such thing as closure,” she wrote. “As my family is evolving, I hope we can still have barbecues and Fourth of July celebrations, and that we can proceed forward with love and tenderness.”

  She added, “There is no finish line when it comes to relationships, and I think the search for one will just make you frustrated. So I have no illusions that this book is done and now I can close the door on my past. I do feel like this book is done so … let’s keep moving and focus on the future. I’m excited to see what will come next.”

  It seems her next chapter has already started: As Page Six confirmed earlier this month, she’s been dating cinematographer Michael Barrett.
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  QUOTED: "Faris' words are uplifting and unpretentious, anchored by a genuine appreciation for the couple's dedication to each other that, as of now, take on new poignancy within the context of their breakup."

  Anna Faris' upcoming book is a powerful ode to Chris Pratt: 6 things we learned
  EW Staff August 07, 2017 at 08:06 PM EDT

  In the wake of Sunday's announcement that Hollywood supercouple Anna Faris and Chris Pratt had separated, the fate of the former's unpublished memoir, Unqualified, remains unknown. The book, which has been available to book sellers and press in an early, unfinished "galley" form includes details of their spur-of-the-moment marriage in Bali, the birth of their son, and how the pair emerged unscathed from the ruthless clutches of Hollywood gossip.

  Reading this version of Unqualified as news of the couple's separation occupies headlines provides insight into Faris and Pratt's relationship, even as the ties that once bound its author to her husband of eight years begin to loosen.

  As the foreword, written by Pratt, indicates, much of the couple's time together was defined by their unfiltered commitment to each other, an unabashed display of affection that often played out on social media and in interviews.

  "She is fierce and very loyal, she rarely punishes people. But when she does, it’s powerful and terrifying, and when it’s over, it’s really over. (Power and terror are acceptable in a partner but absolutely necessary in a mother, as far as I’m concerned)," Pratt writes in the opening pages. "And she does mother very well, both our son, Jack, and me, when needed.”

  While exact plans for the release of the book are unclear at press time (Dutton slated it to hit shelves Oct. 24, and did not immediately respond to EW's request for comment), the memoir as it stands is a moving reflection on the evolution of marriage. The book was presumably written at a point when Faris and Pratt's coupling brimmed with passion. Aside from a few gripes about Pratt being late to a date or two, Faris writes purely about her husband's selfless qualities and how his presence grounded her and her insecurities.

  Faris' words are uplifting and unpretentious, anchored by a genuine appreciation for the couple's dedication to each other that, as of now, take on new poignancy within the context of their breakup. Here are key highlights from happier times that endure — no matter the circumstances surrounding the Unqualified release.

  Faris and Pratt's marriage had a spontaneous spark

  Though Faris was married to actor Ben Indra during the 2007 production of the comedy Take Me Home Tonight, she says she fell for Pratt as they worked together on the set. She became her future spouse's wingman, helping him secure hookups with "hottie" background actresses — an act that ultimately fueled her jealousy. His random acts of kindness (he once spent an entire day calling Kmart customer reps after Faris had lost her credit card in one of the chain's stores) and their late-night conversations after a long day of shooting (he also walked Faris to her apartment in the evening) weighed on her mind long after the moments passed. She soon divorced her previous spouse, announced the news to the cast, and began her relationship with Pratt shortly thereafter.

  She likens Pratt during this period to a "cattle prod," whose presence prompted her to leave a relationship she knew wasn't right for her. He didn't, however, realize he was serving such a profound purpose in her life at the time. Faris also tested his interest in different ways, eating a fly that Pratt had swatted out of the air on one of their first dates, admittedly gambling for a big payoff — and it worked.

  While on a cross-continental backpacking trip through Europe, Pratt called Faris (who was upset about the trip in the first place, even though they'd only been dating for a short period and hadn't yet decided they were in a committed relationship) to tell her he loved her and wanted to marry her. They moved in together after nine months of dating.

  In keeping with their relationship's spontaneous and fast-paced tone, while traveling with friends for a wedding in Bali in 2009, they realized the hotel they were staying in offered a wedding option when booking a room. They took the hotel up on the offer and eloped that weekend after their friends had left.

  “When I met Chris, the most striking thing about him was that he knew how to be happy,” she writes. “When I looked back at my marriage, and many of my relationships before it, I realized I had always equated cynicism, discontent, and anger with intelligence, and getting together with Chris made me reexamine that. It made me realize that being with someone who was well-liked and popular actually made me happy.”

  Faris goes on to explain that she learned to control the secrecy of the inner-workings of her relationship by sharing details — images, social media posts — directly from her channels online, noting that the best defense is an offensive approach to exposing her life to the public. The feedback from fans had been largely positive and satisfying that it was on her own terms.
  Public scrutiny, jealousy, and tabloid gossip are obstacles they helped each other overcome

  On that note, Faris admits that the trappings of being a working Hollywood couple are many — including tabloids pitting her against other actresses who worked with Pratt over the years, including Jennifer Lawrence, his costar in the 2016 blockbuster romance Passengers. Faris reveals that she feels a sense of jealousy at times when Pratt shares an on-screen kiss with his colleagues, though she has learned to befriend and compliment them instead of stirring a dramatic situation (in a genuine way, not in a "frenemy" way). She later writes about her budding friendship with Lawrence, whom she says was apologetic about the media's coverage of her friendship with Pratt during production. (One magazine, she says, even posted side-by-side photos of Pratt in public with Lawrence with a shot of Faris on the beach at a family vacation. It was an attempt to paint the latter as a jealous, aging nag.) Pratt was a steadfast support system when publications like that hit a nerve.

  Jealousy is a two-way street, however. Faris explains Pratt was jealous of scenes she filmed with Chris Evans for What's Your Number?, though they later hung out together and became close friends (and Marvel superheroes), eliminating any bitterness. Pratt and Faris ultimately found a way to trust each other, a formula that, by her account, worked for the duration of their union.
  The birth of their son brought Pratt and Faris closer together

  As the joint statement announcing their separation stresses, the couple's priority is — and always has been — their son, Jack. His birth was also a test of their endurance as a couple, which they emerged from with a new, gracious appreciation for life and their future.

  They had been trying to have children for around a year when Jack was conceived and approached the situation with an emphasis on romance. Pratt carried his support through Faris' stay in the hospital, decorating her room with posters and pictures, bringing her desserts nightly while falling asleep by her side.

  But complications arose when Jack was born prematurely. Doctors had wanted to keep Faris on bed rest for weeks to allow Jack more time to grow, but when the baby was born, he had severe brain bleeding that could have resulted in developmental disability. Faris says Pratt's patriarchal attitude in these moments comforted her, and they didn't let each other break down in the face of a terrifying prospect. The actress says she felt incredibly close to Pratt during that time, and it shaped their outlook on raising Jack, who wound up progressing "completely on par for his age."

  In raising Jack, Faris writes that she remains grounded even though she's aware of her surroundings, overpopulated with narcissism in a cutthroat city like Los Angeles. She explains her desire to raise a conscientious, kind child who understands that his parents moved to L.A. with essentially no contacts and made something out of nothing.
  Keeping an eye on the future is key

  In Unqualified, Faris also discusses her desire to, perhaps, have more kids with Pratt and continuously muses on their future together — including visions of them at an old age, retreating to Washington State, her baking pies and him catching crabs while they live on a farm. She says dreaming of those days is a sweet pleasure and makes the struggles — including working away from each other for long periods of time while shooting — worthwhile.
  Generosity and self-love go hand-in-hand

  Faris' mother often told her to be "selfish in love." To her, that meant relationships require us to see our own interests before we can appropriately gauge ourselves in the context of a relationship and that self-love will lead to happiness faster. So, Faris says, she learned to make herself happy with Pratt even while their busy schedules often kept them apart for months at a time. She says their sights are always set on the dreams they're working to build for their life together, and that's what makes getting through momentary difficulties worthwhile. She says time apart also makes time together all the more precious — a key element in maintaining passion.
  The little things matter

  An entire chapter of the book is dedicated to listing and appreciating things Pratt does for her, including braiding her hair, writing poems and letters by hand from international locations, sending flowers to the set of Mom every Friday before the show tapes, and giving her thoughtful, and unexpected gifts.

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  QUOTED: "Fans of the actress and her podcast about dating and relationships will probably enjoy reading anecdotes from Faris’ life. ... But there will surely also be a substantial number of readers impatiently flipping through the pages in search of juicy details about Faris’ separation with her husband, Chris Pratt."

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  Anna Faris’ new memoir, Unqualified, comes out on Tuesday, and in it she dishes about her childhood, her experiences in the entertainment industry, and, of course, her personal life. Fans of the actress and her podcast about dating and relationships will probably enjoy reading anecdotes from Faris’ life, like the time she ate a fly that was buzzing around her table at a restaurant while she was on a date (yes, really). But there will surely also be a substantial number of readers impatiently flipping through the pages in search of juicy details about Faris’ separation with her husband, Chris Pratt, which the couple announced in August.

  Those readers won’t have to flip very far: Not only is the memoir dedicated to Pratt (“Your wisdom and strength have made me a better person”), he also wrote the book’s foreword. You might think it would be awkward for Pratt to introduce the book written by his soon-to-be-ex-wife—and you’d be right! While Pratt has some sweet things to say about Faris, who he calls “the person I spent one amazing decade with,” his rambling foreword to her book is also full of deeply uncomfortable moments, such as …
  When Pratt avoids saying “we broke up” in favor of beating around the bush:

  When I was asked to write the forward [sic] for Unqualified, Anna’s memoir, I immediately said yes without even thinking about it. And boy did a lot happen between then and now.

  So much.

  Like … soooo much.

  When Pratt spends a painfully long time pretending he doesn’t know what a foreword is or how it’s spelled:

  Crickets.

  Stares at phone.

  Literally googles the word forward.

  Wow … Okay. So … it’s actually spelled FOREWORD. With an O and an E. Who knew? Siri did. Of course. We’ve been through a lot, she and I.

  When Pratt weirdly reminds us that he owns a 30–40 gun arsenal in the midst of praising his wife for being well-informed:

  She reads the big five: The New York Times, LA Times, The Seattle Times, The New Yorker, and The Economist. Whereas I read “The Big 5” sporting goods ads, looking for good deals on guns and Rollerblades.

  When Pratt offers up this bizarre, seemingly backhanded compliment about Faris meeting her fans:

  She communes with anybody and makes an instant connection with each person she meets, which lasts … a VERY SHORT TIME. Like, a “goldfish, three seconds, turn around and you’re strangers” kind of way? Almost like Dory from Finding Nemo? Or the movie Memento?

  This line:

  And in all the years we were together, I don’t think I smelled her farts once. They’re probably not too bad.

  Marissa Martinelli is a Slate editorial assistant.

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  QUOTED: "Unqualified is a somewhat masochistic look back at a relationship that we now know is over. But that's what makes the book so compelling."

  9 Chris Pratt Stories That Make It Hard to Read the New Anna Faris Book

  Unqualified is a somewhat masochistic look back at a relationship that we now know is over. But that's what makes the book so compelling.
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  If you walk away from Anna Faris's new book, Unqualified, obsessing over the Chris Pratt passages, that doesn't necessarily make you a gossip. He appears throughout its pages, which Faris obviously wrote before the couple announced their separation in August. As the Times reports, Faris made "minor revisions" to the book, which is based on her advice podcast, Anna Faris is Unqualified, but "decided not to drastically alter or postpone the publication." Pratt still wrote the foreword. She still thanks him in the acknowledgements. There's a chapter where they discuss how fame impacts a marriage. It's an odd read: she draws from her own life to give relationship advice without ever acknowledging the current state of her relationship. Is she withholding the truth, then, or is this book a time capsule? Either way, you feel sad (and compelled) reading it. Here, 9 stories that linger.

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  1. Chris rescued Anna from her high-school reunion.

  She was there for an hour when it started to feel like high-school (meaning shitty for your sense of self). "Chris drove down and picked me up, as we’d planned, and it did feel a bit like the lion rescuing the lioness from the hyenas. It was amazing to watch the reaction as he came through the door … he was all movie star. There was a collective gasp as he whisked me away and, yes, that was fairly satisfying..."
  2. She ate a fly on one of their dates.

  "The relationship felt so different than my previous ones. It was laughter all the time. On one of our first dates, we were in a restaurant and Chris swatted at a fly. It was on the table and still kind of partially moving so I grabbed it and popped it in my mouth and ate it. It was weird and gross and impulsive but spoke to that part of me that indulgently wants to freak people out. I was taking a gamble that it would pay off and he’d be impressed, and it paid off."
  3. She helped him hook up with other women (before they were a couple):

  They became friends (and fell for each other) on the set of Take Me Home Tonight. "He was hooking up with some of the cute background actresses, and I eventually started acting as his wingwoman. I loved it, and was so impressed with myself for being the cool girl who helped him hook up with hotties. But then I found myself feeling incredibly jealous of said hotties, and started to wonder what the fuck was going on in my head."
  4. She taught him a tough lesson about being punctual.

  When she and Chris started dating, he was "chronically late." One evening, Anna cooked him dinner because he was supposed to be at her house in 30 minutes. An hour passed, he still wasn't there, so she left. "I wanted some consideration. I had to set boundaries, because I was so wary of feeling bulldozed in any way. When Chris finally showed up at my house he called me in a panic and I told him where I was: at a restaurant on Hollywood Boulevard by myself. After that, Chris was always on time..."
  5a. She once tried to find out his “number.” (Hers was five.)

  "Chris told me that whatever I’d done and whomever I’d done it with, it didn’t bother him and he didn’t need to know. That, in turn, made me feel pretty embarrassed. I had been not-so-subtly searching for how many women he’d been with, and I’m confident it was a lot more than four or five. He was casual and cool about it when I finally tried to get it out of him. 'I don’t know,' he kept saying. 'I really don’t know.'"
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  5b. She kinda wishes her own number was higher.

  "Looking back now, I wish I had slept with more people, simply so I could learn to be a better lover and know how to tackle more positions and make better noises. I am not envious of the people I know who have slept with only three people, but my friend who can’t even count the people she’s slept with? I’m envious of that. That’s a study abroad program that I just never went on. But I don't think I can change the part of me that has sex with a lot of emotional investment."
  6. She was hurt by the Jennifer Lawrence rumors.

  "For a long time, I felt really lucky. Even though Chris was becoming hugely famous and I’d been sort of famous for a while, the two of us led such boring lives that the tabloids usually left us alone … But when Chris filmed Passengers with Jennifer Lawrence, that all changed."

  Before Chris and Jennifer even met, Anna's publicist warned her that the paparazzi would have a feeding frenzy. "'There are going to be shots of them laughing together on their way to set,' [her publicist told her]. 'There are going to be stories circulating, and you have to brace yourself for this.'"

  "I didn’t think it would bother me … But then, when it actually started and magazines began running rumors, it was totally hurtful."
  7. She asked Chris to help fix one of Hollywood’s many problems.

  Namely, the fact that a man's on-screen love interest is so often played by a woman decades his junior. "...It doesn’t feel great to work really hard for nearly twenty years in this town and then worry you won’t get hired again because you’re no longer fuckable. ... In a moment of insecurity, I have definitely asked Chris: 'As you have more and more influence in casting your movies, will you think about someone closer to Rachel McAdams’s age?' (She’s thirty-eight.)"
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  8. They acknowledge how their different levels of fame impacted their relationship.

  In the chapter where they discuss being a famous couple, Anna writes, "Sometimes I feel like I don’t have the career that I used to, and I do have moments of insecurity about that. I’m so thrilled and grateful that you are doing the things you are, and I have crazy pride in the fact that your talents are recognized, but it can be hard not to have a moment of self-doubt when my husband is acting with young women in big movies and I’m playing a role in Mom, that, while I love it, is incredibly unsexy."
  9. She still thinks he's "about the best person I know."

  She thanks him in her acknowledgements, saying, "I love our late nights conjuring up ideas for projects and characters and talking about the rabbits. Chris, thank you for the impossible amount of support and love ... Thank you for being just about the best person I know. I love you. I wish we had more words for love."

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  QUOTED: "As a lonely sort of insecure, awkward kid, things got a lot better. ... And here’s my path to finding success through something I really love, and I hope that you find that path, too."

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  Life isn’t always easy — just ask Anna Faris.

  Faris’ new book Unqualified gives in intimate look inside the star’s life, including her rocky romantic life and battle to overcome her own insecurities.

  “I hope people read it and they think, ‘Oh—she’s like me!'” she tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue.

  The Mom star, 40, says she wanted to use her own story to help give hope to people who are struggling to find their place.

  “As a lonely sort of insecure, awkward kid, things got a lot better,” she says of the book’s message. “And here’s my path to finding success through something I really love, and I hope that you find that path, too.”
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  While Faris admits that sharing such private aspects of her personal life can be scary at times, she’s happy that the book gives a truthful representation of who she is.

  “I didn’t want a book that presents my life as idealistic,” she says. “I wanted to show the fact that I am unqualified, and I don’t know what I’m doing, and I’m grateful for the people who love me anyway.”

  The book, featuring sweet anecdotes about Chris Pratt before their split, hits shelves later this month. The actress is the first to admit that the timing is less than ideal.

  “The idea of all this happening and culminating with the book as well, it was like: ‘Oh boy, how do I frame this?'” Faris tells PEOPLE. “At first I thought, ‘Oh my gosh, this is crazy timing.’ Now it sort of feels like maybe in a way everything that’s happened helps bring it full circle.”
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  Among other subjects Faris tackles in her book is her decision to get breast implants a decade ago, a choice which she in no way regrets nor wishes to hide. “I liked my body then, and I like my body now,” she says.

  As for her life now, Faris says she’s simply doing her best.

  “The best I can manage is to throw my hands in the air and say, ‘I don’t know what I’m talking about but I have a couple of things figured out,” she says. “And then life threw me a curveball and I realized, ‘Oh wow, I really don’t know what I’m talking about.’ ”

  Unqualified is available starting Oct. 24.

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  Anna Faris Is ‘So Scared’ To Release ‘Intimate’ Book About Her Life
  It’s set to include a foreword by estranged husband Chris Pratt.
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  Anna Faris will release the memoir and self-help guide Anna Faris Is Unqualified in October, just three months after she and Chris Pratt announced their separation.

  With the book’s debut looming, Faris has admitted she is “really, really nervous” given the “intimate” nature of the material. The “Mom” actress reportedly delves into her love life in the memoir, which is still set to include a forward written by Pratt.

  “I’m excited and when I first got the book deal, I thought, ‘What a great adventure this is going to be,’ and now that it’s getting closer, I feel nervous in a sense that I’ve always been able to hide behind characters,” Faris explained during the most recent episode of her podcast, which shares a title with the upcoming book. “And now, it’s like, this is me. It feels a little scary.”

  The book, she continued, covers “what I’ve learned from feeling [like] a really quiet kid with headgear, and then suddenly being an actress in LA, and sort of how I haven’t felt comfortable in my own skin, and learning to do that.”
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  The couple, who share a 4-year-old son, Jack, revealed they were splitting in August, after eight years of marriage.

  “We tried hard for a long time, and we’re really disappointed. Our son has two parents who love him very much and for his sake we want to keep this situation as private as possible moving forward,” they said in a joint statement. “We still have love for each other, will always cherish our time together and continue to have the deepest respect for one another.”

  Even Sim Sarna, co-host of the podcast, was taken aback by how much the book reveals about the actress’ personal life, prompting Faris to issue a message of caution to her listeners.

  “I would love it so much if you picked up my book, but please know, I am so scared. I feel like leaving the country for a little while. I’m breaking into a sweat,” she joked.

  “It definitely confirms that I have no idea what the fuck I’m talking about.”
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  The actress opens up like never before about her estranged husband and other past relationships.

  Anna Faris opens up like never before in her new memoir, Unqualified, and she seems to have the full support of her estranged husband, Chris Pratt.

  The 38-year-old actor penned the forward to Faris' book, which she dedicates to him, writing: "To Chris. Your wisdom and strength have made me a better person."

  Pratt also sings the 40-year-old actress' praises. "Anna is an important part of my life and she always will be," he writes. "Anna deserves this book. I can promise you it will be a great and interesting read. A face-first dive into the mind and person I spent one amazing decade with, and will, for the rest of my life, amicably co-parent a human."

  MORE: Anna Faris Praises Ex Chris Pratt, Says They Still 'Love' and 'Adore' Each Other

  Faris' book offers an incredibly candid look at her past relationships and her 8-year marriage to Pratt, and it's her hope that her story may act as a guide of sorts. "I want to help you with your love life," she says of the motivation behind Unqualified. "I've been doling out romantic advice my whole life."

  She later writes: "Heartbreak and rejection are communal. Love is life's greatest mystery and wildest adventure. God, that's so f**king corny."

  Faris further notes: "Hearing other people's problems is in its own weird way, comforting."

  Here's a look at the biggest revelations and advice dished out by Faris in her tell-all memoir:

  1. Her Marriage to Chris Pratt
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  Faris still has a lot of love for her estranged husband, and admits that when they first started dating, she was always trying to find proof that he wasn't as nice as he came off.

  Throughout the book, she praises the Guardians of the Galaxy star for his unflinching support of her throughout their marriage. "He brought out something in me that made me want to be feminine in a very traditional way," she recalls, noting that when she told him she wanted breast implants, he responded, "'Honey, I love your body no matter what you do.'"

  Faris recalls going to her 20-year high school reunion, and while she did not have Pratt escort her, he was there to pick her up. "It did feel a bit like the lion rescuing the lioness from the hyenas," she writes, admitting that she was a bit insecure about attending the event. "It was amazing to watch the reaction as he came through the door. I still felt like headgear-wearing, awkward Anna Faris but when Chris came in, he was all movie star. There was a collective gasp as he whisked me away."

  While Faris doesn't offer many hints as to why the two called it quits, she does express that when she and Pratt started sharing their personal lives on social media, they cultivated an image of the perfect couple that came with some added pressure.

  Pratt also notes this in his forward, writing: "We're both well-known actors and it's worth mentioning -- fame can be a pain in the butt. But we're thick-skinned. And despite what it may seem, we'll be just fine regardless what you think of us."

  Faris goes on to suggest that when in a relationship, she never tries to change a man, but prefers "adjusting him." She gives the example of when Pratt used to always show up late to everything, but that all changed when he got together with Faris.

  "I think it was a testament to how much he wanted to be in the relationship, because he was willing to change in order to be with me," she writes.

  Faris says she was also diligent in showing her gratitude for him while they were married.

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  2. How She Dealt With Those Jennifer Lawrence Romance Rumors
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  Faris confesses that the romance rumors that surrounded Pratt and Lawrence when they were promoting their movie, Passengers, did get to her. In fact, the Mom star says her publicist even warned her that the press would be all over them.

  "Magazines started running rumors. It was totally hurtful," Faris confides. When she confronted Pratt about her feelings regarding the reports, she says he responded, "'Why are you even paying attention to that?'"

  Faris says that Pratt finally started to understand her feelings about the rumors, and is adamant that she and Lawrence have a good relationship. "Jennifer and I are really friendly, and she hadn't done anything wrong," she insists. "She's awesome, but of course it's hurtful and also embarrassing when people are saying your husband is cheating on you -- even if it's patently untrue. You still feel and look like a fool."

  EXCLUSIVE: Anna Faris Is on Jennifer Lawrence's Side in Hilarious 'Passengers' Prank War

  3. Her Body Image Issues and Breast Implants
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  Faris is the first to admit that she struggles with how she looks. "Even if I'm in hot pants and my hair and makeup are done and I'm playing a character who feels hot, I just can't embrace it," she confides. "I just think you have to take yourself really seriously to identify as hot, and to this day I have too much wrapped in the idea of being the incredibly insecure 15-year-old [girl] who nobody wants to hook up with."

  The House Bunny star also notes that by the time she was 13, she realized that her weight would be a point of discussion as a woman. She later admits that it makes her nervous to think about having a daughter one day.

  "I would love it, but I would also have a lot of complicated feelings regarding teaching her how to view her body and her self-worth," she explains.

  As for her decision to get breast implants, Faris insists, "I did it for myself. I wasn't doing it for Hollywood."

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  4. Her Past Relationships and Issues With Men
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  "For as long as I can remember, I wanted a boyfriend so badly," Faris begins her book, adding that she thought the "defining feature of adulthood was getting to be in love."

  Faris goes on to open up about her first marriage to Ben Indra from 2004 to 2008, which ended not long after she met Pratt on the movie Take Me Home Tonight. The actress reveals that she sought out her first high school boyfriend ahead of her and Indra's wedding, and admits that she wasn't sure if she wanted to marry him.

  "Ten years later, right before I married my ex-husband, I tracked Chad down -- which was probably a sign that I shouldn't have been getting married in the first place," she confides.

  Faris also admits that she has a "pattern" when it comes to relationships, revealing that if she hadn't met Pratt, she may have stayed in her marriage to Indra. "It takes meeting a new guy to help me get over the old one," she confesses.

  She later notes, "For a long time, I had incredibly low expectations of men, and I felt so smug every time a guy proved me right."

  Faris goes on to reveal in a later chapter that she's had sex with a total of five men and has some regret about the low number. "Looking back now, I wish I had slept with more people, simply so I could learn to be a better lover and know how to tackle more positions and make better noises," she quips.

  MORE: Anna Faris Shares Relationship Advice After Chris Pratt Split -- 'Know Your Worth, Know Your Independence'

  5. Dealing With Fame
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  Faris says she still has "complicated feelings about fame."

  Recalling an interview she saw between Oprah Winfrey and Gwyneth Paltrow, Faris remembers thinking that if she ever made it in the entertainment business that she would never complain about fame like the Oscar winner was doing.

  This epiphany came after she regrettably dropped the "don't you know who I am?" line during a trip to the bowling alley with her family. "What the f**k did I just say?" she writes of her disposition at the time. "Was I really the person who was drunk on her own ego?"

  MORE: Anna Faris Talks Jealousy, Heartbreak and Still Being ‘Great Friends’ With Ex Chris Pratt

  6. Jack Pratt's Health Battle

  In August 2012, Pratt and Faris' son, Jack, was born nine weeks early and weighed only three pounds, 12 ounces. As a result, he faced several health issues.

  "The pediatric neurosurgeon sat Chris and me down to tell us that Jack had some severe brain bleeding and there was a chance that he could be developmentally disabled," Faris writes. "I was in complete shock ... So Chris and I did what we could, which was hold hands and hope and face it together."

  "These moments can be hard on couples, but for us it really brought us together," she confides. "It felt like it was us against the world."

  Now, Jack is five years old and his parents couldn't be more proud. "Today, Jack is at a beautiful age," Faris gushes. "He's a really good kid and he's happy and delicious and likes cuddles."

  PHOTO: Anna Faris Spotted Without Wedding Ring After Separation From Chris Pratt

  Faris is now entering another chapter in her life, and appears to have a new man by her side. The actress reportedly struck up a romance with Michael Barrett, the cinematographer from her latest film, Overboard, whom she was spotted with last month when she took her and Pratt's 5-year-old son, Jack, to a carnival.

  Here's a look at their day out:

  Additional reporting by Matt Genise, Chelsea Linder and Monica Luisi.

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  QUOTED: "At first, I was really nervous about the idea of the book coming out and coinciding with these major life changes we were having, but Chris is amazing."
  "I just wanted to make sure that anyone who was actually willing to read the book felt like I wasn’t glorifying my life at all. I am clearly a flawed person. ... This is terrifying ... that I’m writing about stuff that makes me feel incredibly vulnerable."

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  On the first page of her new memoir, “Unqualified,” Anna Faris confesses that she’s not exactly thrilled to be writing a book: “I’m terrified.”

  Considering some of the personal and embarrassing revelations that follow, fear is understandable. Ms. Faris, who stars in the CBS sitcom “Mom” and has appeared in nearly 40 movies, covers an impressive range of taboo subjects: her plastic surgery, her “crazy masturbation phase,” the number — and names — of people she’s slept with, and her feelings of jealousy when her husband, the actor Chris Pratt, would appear onscreen with beautiful co-stars.

  But when she sold her memoir to Dutton last year, Ms. Faris had no idea how awkward things would get. The book, which is out Tuesday, blends relationship advice with Ms. Faris’s reflections on her romantic follies — yet it comes just a couple of months after the announcement of her separation from Mr. Pratt, after eight years of marriage.
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  She decided, as she often does when she’s feeling uncertain, to plunge ahead, despite the fact that her book casts an idealistic light on their marriage and barely alludes to its demise.
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  “At first, I was really nervous about the idea of the book coming out and coinciding with these major life changes we were having, but Chris is amazing,” Ms. Faris said in an interview, noting that she made minor revisions but decided not to drastically alter or postpone the publication.

  For Ms. Faris, the breakup creates an added wrinkle for an already anxiety-inducing moment in her career, as she prepares to promote the book in television appearances and bookstore events where, inevitably, the subject of her marriage and separation will come up.

  “The book release would have been terrifying regardless,” she said, adding that it was even more so “with the new complications in my life.”

  “I’ve never done anything like this,” she added. “I get to hide behind characters.”

  She’s resigned herself to fielding questions about the split, and says that if she had published the memoir a year from now, she would have had time to reflect on and address their separation in the book. “The story is kind of dull,” she said. “It’s a little bit like, two incredibly busy people that care a lot for each other got really busy.”

  Ms. Faris’s editor at Dutton, Jill Schwartzman, said she was confident that the memoir wouldn’t be overshadowed by Ms. Faris’s separation because it’s ultimately a funny and revealing look at Ms. Faris, through the lens of her relationships.

  “Unqualified,” which grew out of Ms. Faris’s popular podcast, is goofily self-deprecating, casually profane and occasionally raw, earnest and blunt, like Ms. Faris herself. She seems determined to catalog her own flaws and foibles — an offensive tactic, she admits, against critics who would gladly pile on. She concedes that she can be heedless and impulsive in love.

  But coming on the heels of her separation from Mr. Pratt, the book often reads like a love letter — or now, a heartfelt epitaph — to a marriage.
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  Ms. Faris chronicles the highs and lows, but mostly the highs, of their courtship and marriage. In a chapter titled, “Take Me Home Tonight. Literally,” Ms. Faris recalls developing a crush on Mr. Pratt while working on the comedy “Take Me Home Tonight,” when she was still married to the actor Ben Indra. (After realizing she was attracted to Mr. Pratt, Ms. Faris told Mr. Indra over the phone that she wanted a divorce, then announced to everyone on set that she had left her husband.)

  Later on, she describes how, on one of her first dates with Mr. Pratt, she ate a fly to impress him. She also reveals trying moments, like the wrenching weeks after their son Jack was born prematurely and had to spend about a month in the neonatal intensive care unit. In what would have been a stressful time for any parents, Ms. Faris and Mr. Pratt had the additional burden of facing paparazzi who stalked them at the hospital entrance.

  With characteristic self-effacement, Ms. Faris also addresses the downsides of being a famous Hollywood couple, including her feelings of insecurity when Mr. Pratt starred with Jennifer Lawrence in the sci-fi epic “Passengers” and the tabloids speculated that they were a couple: “Of course it’s hurtful and also embarrassing when people are saying your husband is cheating on you — even if it’s patently untrue,” Ms. Faris writes.

  Mr. Pratt — who went from playing a lovable, dimwitted side character on the NBC sitcom “Parks and Recreation” to full-blown movie stardom, with leading roles in blockbusters like “Guardians of the Galaxy” and “Jurassic World” — is a looming presence in “Unqualified,” from the first page to the acknowledgments. Ms. Faris dedicated the book to him, and thanks him for “being just about the best person I know.”
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  Ms. Faris and her husband, Chris Pratt, announced in August that they were separating. Credit Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images

  In his foreword to the book, Mr. Pratt obliquely references the separation, and intentionally butchers the spelling of “foreword,” as part of a running joke that he doesn’t know what the word means. “When I was asked to write the forward for ‘Unqualified,’ Anna’s memoir, I immediately said yes without even thinking about it,” he writes. “And boy did a lot happen between then and now. So much. Like … soooo much.” Mr. Pratt also makes an extended guest appearance later in the book, in a chapter titled, “She Said, He Said: What It’s Like to Be a Couple in Hollywood,” which consists entirely of dialogue between them. (A publicist for Mr. Pratt said he was unable to comment for this article because “his schedule is completely over committed at this point.”)

  Ms. Faris, 40, grew up in Edmonds, Wash., and has been acting since she was 9. She got a degree in English literature from the University of Washington, then moved to Los Angeles. Her first role in a major film was playing Cindy Campbell in “Scary Movie,” a campy horror parody. In the ensuing years, she was often cast as the drunk girl, the ditsy sidekick or the adorable goofball. Eventually, she started producing and landing leading roles in comedies like “The House Bunny” and “What’s Your Number?” Next year, she stars in a remake of the 1987 romantic comedy “Overboard,” which originally featured Goldie Hawn as a self-involved heiress.

  In 2015, she started a podcast, “Anna Faris Is Unqualified,” a show that has been described as a mash-up between Marc Maron and Dear Abby. On the show, Ms. Faris and her co-host, Sim Sarna, take calls from listeners and dole out relationship advice, often with celebrity guests weighing in (T.J. Miller, Lisa Kudrow, Aubrey Plaza and Chelsea Handler have all made appearances). The podcast gave her the idea for the book.

  In the last chapter of “Unqualified,” Ms. Faris noted that she started seeing a therapist while writing the book, and that she has grown skeptical of the idea of “closure” following a breakup.

  “I just wanted to make sure that anyone who was actually willing to read the book felt like I wasn’t glorifying my life at all. I am clearly a flawed person,” she said in the interview. “This is terrifying,” she added — that word again — “that I’m writing about stuff that makes me feel incredibly vulnerable.”

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  A version of this article appears in print on October 25, 2017, on Page C1 of the New York edition with the headline: Anna Faris Almost Tells All. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe

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