In her first-ever (sort of) memoir, the beloved actor and YouTube sensation gets personal about everything from mental health to drunken debaucheries with this âbrave, behind-the-webcam look at self-discoveryâ (Kirkus Reviews).
As an only child raised in a town of less than 8,000 people and without a Starbucks in sight, Meghan Rienks has always been pretty good at entertaining herself. Then one dayâcue the dramatic voiceoverâher life changed forever.
In 2010, Meghan was diagnosed with mononucleosis. Mono is basically just a really bad case of the flu, right? Wrong. To a party crazed sixteen-year-old, mono is social suicide. More than anything, itâs just plain boring. So, Meghan opened up her MacBook, used the webcam for something other than a bad Andy Warholâstyle photobooth session, and recorded her first YouTube video. Since then, Meghan has shared the ups and downs of her life with the internet, documenting her teenage years for the whole world to see.
Now that sheâs (mostly) through her awkward stage, Meghanâs here to tell you that it gets better. Youâre not alone in the thoughts you think. Sometimes a bad hair day feels worse than a punch in the gut and asking a boy out seems about as difficult as achieving that perfect dewy glow. But despite what youâve been told, your problems are not unique, and somebody else has felt the way you feel right at this very moment.
Youâre not special. But youâre also not alone on the bumpy road to adulthood.