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Written as a series of provocative questions and thoughtful answers, and filled with deeply personal, often funny and even passionate stories, in this book Maria bares her soul and shares what she’s learned-about romantic love, but also about her relationship with her parents, her feelings about spirituality, her sexual identity, the highs and lows of her career, her humanitarian work, and her worth as a mother. Questioning those labels is at the heart of Whatever…Love is Love. We no longer fit into the tidy little boxes, and neither do our lives.

Partnership, career, love, sexuality, all of these aspects of life are fluid now. Her essay “Coming Out as a Modern Family” was featured in the New York Times Modern Love column and started a worldwide conversation about how many of the labels we all know and use are simply outdated today. Jack’s response-simple and wise beyond his years was “Whatever, Mom…love is love.” Seeing that Jack didn’t see traditional labels of partnership, Maria began to contemplate the labels she herself had worn during her life.

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Part of her questioning was about how to tell her son, then 12 years old that she had fallen in love with a woman. And instead of coming to any definitive answers, she found herself asking more and more questions. She read through each one of those journals during her months of recovery, in the in process began to uncover who she was and who she had become.

In a moment, everything could end, and all of her stories would be lost-stories of love, family, miracles and madness that filled the hundreds of journals she had been keeping since she was a child. In the summer of 2013, lying in a hospital bed with her body riddled with parasites, Maria Bello realized that waiting to do something isn’t always an option. Her essay in the The New York Times, Modern Love column, “Coming Out as a Modern Family” is one of the ten most popular articles in a decade.

Maria Bello is a mother, actor, activist and author.

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