Wild adventures of instant celeb
The guy who’s seriously late, drunk and coked up, then flirts with the bartender, ignoring her.
Other adventures were more involved — like this one.
Dorfman accepts a trip to the Kentucky Derby, where she and a pal get wasted. She meets a couple who live part-time in New York. Turns out they want a ménage à trois, which she discovers after accepting a ride on their private jet.
She’s texting with her friend, who Googles the couple and says the woman is a Hollywood madam who “sells girls as sex slaves to rich millionaires.”
It’s not clear exactly how she makes it home unscathed, but Dorfman concedes she now understands why her mother warned her against taking rides from strangers.
More self-aware than many reality contestants, Dorfman realizes some people sneer at them. She sneers right back. Those shows get her invited to parties, where the paparazzi snap her photo. She’s outraged when people snub her, like the Fashion Week publicists who won’t give her a free ticket because “we don’t really do reality television stars.”
“Who do you think is buying your s--t?” Dorfman counters. “People who watch reality television.”
She then went on a tear and ditched all of her Olivia James apparel, even though she liked it. Although Dorfman was invited to other shows, she later admits that Fashion Week isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
Still, walking various red carpets, even Dorfman wonders what exactly she’s famous for.
“I’ve gotten so used to this it kind of freaks me out, like, who the hell am I, and why am I still relevant enough to be walking a red carpet?” she asks. “I shouldn’t question it, though, because sooner or later, everyone is going to catch on.”
She works hard at becoming a New Yorker (though someone should warn her that crying on the subway is not something tough city women do).
Dorfman embraces New York wholeheartedly and is so determined to live her version of Carrie Bradshaw’s life that she even thanks New York in her acknowledgments.
Her love of the city is apparent from the beginning. How many people go through LaGuardia Airport “nearly skipping,” as she describes her arrival?
Dorfman continued to love it despite a first whiff of New York that smelled “a tad like garbage, with a hint of urine and maybe a note or two of sewage.”
Dorfman keeps searching for love until she has her Dorothyfrom-Kansas moment — and realizes what she was looking for is something she had all along.