Loni Love hasn't taken the typical path to becoming America's favorite straight-talking girlfriend.

She was not the child of Hollywood legends and she never wore a size 00. Rather, Loni grew up in housing projects in Detroit, more worried about how to afford her next meal rather than going on a diet. When she moved to Hollywood after college to break out in the entertainment world, there was nothing that could convince her to eat kale salads and quinoa bowls, which looked like "weeds my grandma used to pay me a dollar to pull from her yard."

Still, despite the differences that set her apart in the status-driven world of entertainment, where being thin, young, blonde, and bubbly was sometimes considered a talent, Loni spent years trying to fit in: styling her hair just so, starving herself on crash "health cleanses," dating men she thought she was supposed to be with.

In I TRIED TO CHANGE SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO: True Life Lessons (Hachette Go; June 23, 2020), beloved co-host of Fox's 'The Real" Loni Love explores all of the embarrassing blunders, terrifying challenges, and unexpected breakthroughs that taught her how, by committing herself to her own path, she was able to take control of her own destiny. Loni tells the uproariously funny story of how, through mistake after mistake, she overcame the trap of self-improvement and instead learned to embrace who she was.