Life according to GiGi

By Sandra Hodge-Hampton

Life according to GiGi is about Gigi Nelson, a middle-aged woman who pursues her acting career in between hot flashes while supporting herself via odd jobs & her bootleg beauty salon. Gigi's over-inflated opinion of her talent creates hilarious & sometimes sad adventures for Gigi on her way to realizing her "Hollywood Dream" in the heart of Atlanta.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Mar 3, 2019
• ISBN: 9781543966213

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Copyright 2019

eBook ISBN: 978-1-54396-621-3

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Contents

Chapter 1

PRESENT

Chapter 2

1980

Chapter 3

2018

Izzy

Chapter 4

1984

Chapter 5

THE KIDS

Chapter 6

CHICAGO

Chapter 7

FAMILY

Chapter 8

NYC

Chapter 9

FRIENDS

Chapter 10

L.A.

Chapter 11

ATL

Chapter 12

PRESENT

Chapter 1

PRESENT

The argument that could end it all - Gigi and Izzy word spar like their life depends on it.

Fuck you Izzy! Friggin’ Neanderthal! You have no clue…

No Gigi, you’re the talent-less wanna be actress. You’re the one with no clue.

You’re just jealous because I have a dream, a passion and the power to not let people dictate who I choose to be.

You can choose to be whoever you want, but that doesn’t mean you can pay a bill. When was the last time this passionate dream paid the mortgage or put food on the table?

Wait a minute, are you saying I don’t contribute to this family? Before today I had two jobs, outside this constant fixer upper you call our house, AND I’m the only one who cleans it! Plus cook, do laundry, take care of our kids and your baby ass. And you got the nerve, the audacity to come out the side of you’re neck because acting doesn’t pay a bill? I ain’t gotta pay a bill. I’m the only one workin’ like a Hebrew slave to make this family work. I was doing just fine without yo’ monkey ass. YOU chased after me. I told you who I was from jump street.

Calm the hell down.

You calm the hell down you started all of this.

Well you yellin’ and cursin’ at me won’t help us solve this hissue.

What the fuck is a hissue?

I-S-S-U-E! ISSUE! (he continues incoherently in Italian)

Who’s yellin’ now? Gonna tell me I don’t pull my weight. Sheeit I make this house hum and act as an interpreter for your broken English-speaking ass.

KISS MY ASS, GIGI! How’s that for plain English?

Gigi is stunned. She and Izzy fight all the time now, but this is the first time he has cursed at her...EVER! They both know they have crossed a line into territory they may not be able to recover from.

Gigi steels her gaze and stares Izzy in the eye.

"It doesn’t matter whether you believe in me or not, because I believe in me. I was doing this long before you showed up and I’ll be doing it long after you’re gone…. Can’t stop won’t STOP!

Gigi turns