Embrace your perfectly imperfect life and attend a morning tea and book launch with Jessica Rowe.
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Journalist, television presenter and author, Jessica Rowe, will be in the Southern Highlands to promote her new book Diary of a Crap Housewife.
Rowe drew from real-life experiences to write the life-affirming novel.
"My messy chaotic life inspired the book," Rowe said.
"The older I get the more I overshare."
Rowe started an Instagram hashtag, #craphousewife, which connected with the community and encouraged people to embrace imperfection.
Rowe said that the next logical step was to write a book.
"I was fed up with Instagram feeding us fake lives that no one actually leads," Rowe said.
"I hope people who read my book realise that we are all imperfect and that makes us who we are.
"What you are doing is good enough, focus on what you are good at. I am proud of being a crap housewife."
After dealing with post-natal depression, losing her job and her sense of identity, Rowe found strength in wearing the label of crap housewife as a badge of honour.
"It's wonderful not to be perfect and it's okay to be crap at things," Rowe said.
"The older I get the less I care what people think, it's an empowering place to be."
Rowe stressed that there is an army of crap housewives ready to offer support to anyone under the spell of perfection.
Morning tea with Jess Rowe will be held at Centennial winery with the Bowral Bookshop at 11am on April 2.
Visit www.indies.com.au/bowral/events to book.
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