Bridget Moynahanis opening up about one of the most difficult times in her life — and the inspiration came from a pair of shoes.
“I think a lot of women can relate to finding themselves in a life moment that has taken a little bit of their joie de vivre out of them, and then having that moment to reclaim it,” she says about sharing her very personal storyin her new book,Our Shoes, Our Selves,an anthology of essays from women ranging from the late Barbara Bush to Tammy Duckworth to Katie Couric about the personal meaning of their favorite pair of shoes.
In the book, written with Amanda Benchley, and for which she will donate a portion of the proceeds to the charity Girls, Inc., “the women wrote about the heels that made them feel sexy, or combat boots that had jumped out of airplanes,” Moynahan tells PEOPLE this week’s issue, on stands Friday. “But the stories all represented a moment that affected them and put them on another path.”
© Melanie Dunea; Reproduced with permission from Our Shoes, Our Selves, Abrams, 2019
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Thefirestorm of controversythat ensued meant that the actress, then best known for roles inI, Robot,Coyote UglyandSex and the City, was suddenly a tabloid fixture.
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“I would have cars following me, and men hiding in the bushes outside my house,” she says. “As a new mother, you want to just protect your child. That kind of attention felt like a threat.”
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These days, Moynahan says she is grateful that she’s been able to give her son a safe and private life, along with herhusband of three years, businessman Andrew Frankel.
And she also feels lucky she and Brady have been able toco-parent successfully.
source: people.com
