On a rainy morning in early 2003, Nia Vardalos
found out that she had been nominated for an Oscar for
writing the sceenplay for "My Big, Fat Greek Wedding".
But her mind was not on champagne and celebratory cheer.
Instead, she was alone, en route to a fertility clinic,
trying yet again for another chance at motherhood. In
her attempts to make a baby, Vardalos tried everything
from drinking daily jugs of green-mud-tea to
voodoo-doll-like acupuncture, to working with two
surrogates. All the while she was trying to advance her
film career, writing films while dodging questions from
family, friends, and Hollywood reporters who continually
asked Where's the baby? She decided to try adoption and
discovered Foster Family Agencies, meeting social
workers and eventually getting paired up with a three
year old girl with blonde streaks in her hair who she
knew, instantly, was her daughter. With her signature
wit and candor, in "Instant Mom" Vardalos opens up about
what came next - the heartaches and smiles, tears and
laughter that all make up what it means to be a parent.
Filled with stories about Vardalos' life in the
Hollywood scene - she counts Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson and
Sean Hayes as friends - and her unique take on the tough
but often hilarious moments that make up motherhood,
"Instant Mom" is about how stubborn optimism can work in
one's favor, and how it was this very optimism that
brought Nia to her daughter against all of the
odds.
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