Molly Ringwald, 42, isn't quite ready to write her autobiography.
"I'm just halfway through my life. If I write it now, I'll just have to write it again later," she says.
Instead, the redheaded Brat Packer has written Getting the Pretty Back: Friendship, Family and Finding the Perfect Lipstick (It Books, $25.99), out today.
The book is part style guide ("A black blazer can make you look more finished"), part entertaining bible ("Make sure you have enough wine to last"), part mommy handbook ("Don't feel guilty about spending time with your significant other") and, yes, part memoir.
Not that she's writing her life story or anything.
"There is a lot of me in the book, but it's about women in general — about me and my friends, all women," she explains. "There are so many people who have grown up with me that are sort of in this similar situation. That inspired me."
In her acting career, she now finds herself in a situation similar to that of the teen mother she played in 1988's For Keeps but on the other side of the story: as the mother of a teenager.
"The last thing I did that was really big in people's minds were the John Hughes movies where I was playing a teenager, so it seemed like it happened all of a sudden," Ringwald says of her role on ABC Family's The Secret Life of the American Teenager, which returns for a third season June 7. "There was no sexy aunt thrown in there. I don't even think I've played the mother of a toddler. So it's odd in that way."MORE
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