"Muffin Top: A Love Narrative" is the story of Suzanne (Cathryn Michon), a Malibu University professor of Women's Studies Pop Culture who studies pictures of women in the media for a livelihood but feels insecure due to our airbrushed culture's relentless parade of feminine perfection. She has been through IVF treatments with her network executive husband (Diedrich Bader) in order to become pregnant, but discovers on her birthday that her husband has had an affair with his younger, skinnier coworker (Haylie Duff) and is seeking a divorce. Congratulations on your birthday! She then goes on to discover a more honest version of herself, despite the pleasures of being suddenly unmarried in Los Angeles, where low female self-esteem is our primary export.
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"Muffin Top: A Love Narrative" is the story of Suzanne (Cathryn Michon), a Malibu University professor of Women's Studies Pop Culture who studies pictures of women in the media for a livelihood but feels insecure due to our airbrushed culture's relentless parade of feminine perfection. She has been through IVF treatments with her network executive husband (Diedrich Bader) in order to become pregnant, but discovers on her birthday that her husband has had an affair with his younger, skinnier coworker (Haylie Duff) and is seeking a divorce. Congratulations on your birthday! She then goes on to discover a more honest version of herself, despite the pleasures of being suddenly unmarried in Los Angeles, where low female self-esteem is our primary export.
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