Confessions of a Scary Mommy: An Honest and Irreverent Look at Motherhood: The Good, the Bad, and the Scary - Hardcover

"Get ready to ditch those Prada shoes (and anything else nice you own) and face reality--you haven't had a brutal boss until you've had a baby. Confessions of a Scary Mommy is hilariously, outrageously truthful about the hardest job I know. Put this book at the top of your diaper bag!"
--Lauren Weisberger, New York Times bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada

"Jill offers up the perfect antidote to overly earnest parenting guides. It's like comfort food for anxious moms, served with a side of snark."
--Cynthia Copeland, author of The Diaper Diaries and Really Important Stuff My Kids Have Taught Me

"Jill has blown the lid off of what should and should not be said when discussing the experience of motherhood, using her sense of humor and the occasional "F-bomb" -- and in doing so, Scary Mommy, has actually made motherhood a little bit less frightening... [Confessions of a Scary Mommy] dares to say the things most mothers have thought, but few have had the courage to admit."
-- ABCnews.com

"Smokler's "scary mommy" version of motherhood makes no apologies, which is precisely why it succeeds ... If motherhood is starting to feel like a story without a plot, my advice is to pretend you're sick and lock yourself in the bathroom with this book. Highly recommended."
--Library Journal

"Hilarious, brutal honesty about parenting."
-- New York Times bestselling author Michael Ian Black

"Funny . . . speaks the truths about motherhood when other mothers aren't willing to admit it."
--Parenting

"Any mother who doesn't stifle a million knowing laughs while reading Confessions of a Scary Mommy needs to make sure her funny bone wasn't accidentally sucked into the diaper genie."
--Julie Klam, New York Times bestselling author of You Had Me at Woof


"It's the same kind of honest, heartfelt wisdom that has lured thousands of readers to Smokler's Scary Mommy blog and given untold numbers of parents the comforting knowledge that they're not alone."
--Baltimore Magazine

"Confessions of a Scary Mommy is THE book you should be giving all moms-to-be and new mothers so they can get that notion of being "perfect" out of their mommy brains as soon as possible. Jill's book is a collection of the best confessions from her site, as well as some personal stories about becoming a mom and some of her own challenges and thoughts to put it all in perspective. Reading those confessions is pretty addicting and they make you feel pretty darn good."
-- Cafe Mom

"Funny, charming, engaging and highly prone to making me laugh my head off."
--www.Babble.com

Jill Smokler is a New York Times bestselling author and domestic satirist whose candor about marriage and parenting has made her an unlikely hero among a new generation of women. She holds a degree in graphic design and psychology from Washington University in St. Louis and has three children. Married to her college sweetheart, she and her family live in downtown Baltimore.