Are you a “formerly,” as in “formerly hot”? Author Stephanie Dolgoff, the recent subject of a New York Times article, explores this newly-minted phrase in her book My Formerly Hot Life: Dispatches From Just the Other Side of Young.
We kind of feel like this is an improvement over ”MILF,” “yummy mummy” or the truly gross “cougar.” These are all appellations that suggest a certain kind of “trying too hard to cling to the vestiges of youth” or whatever. MILFs share clothes with their teenage daughters. Formerlies are okay with being age appropriate. Formerly tips its “hot” to the fact that you were once super-hot and super-cool but suggests you just don’t care anymore, which is kind of cool, right? Well, Jezebel certainly doesn’t think so. In a blog post on her website, Dolgoff describes how they slammed her book in a post.
