Marie Osmond: Talks about new memoir

Marie Osmond: Talks about new memoir

After a recent performance at the Flamingo Hotel, Marie and Donny Osmond pose for pictures and sign autographs for a group of eager fans, just as they do every night.

Dressed in a black brocade coat, fishnet stockings, tall black boots and rhinestone hoop earrings, the newly petite, Marie Osmond looks very much as if she has entered into a new chapter of life.

Apart from her Vegas gig, a television talk show debuting next fall, and a forthcoming album, Osmond wrote another memoir entitled "Might As Well Laugh About it Now." There she managed to recall difficult memories as the heartache of two divorces and her struggles with weight.

During an interview she said, "Maybe because I started working at such a young age, I did learn to laugh," "Look at girls today ... we get so humiliated that we run from things. And to me that's missing out on life."

Since childhood Osmond has been singing both alone and sometime along with her eight brothers. She is highly acclaimed for the rosy-cheeked, wide-eyed image that she attained at the time of co-hosting the '70s TV variety show titled "Donny & Marie," and has had successful runs singing country music, performing in Broadway plays and designing porcelain dolls.

Marie Osmond was one of the first celebrities to talk openly about postpartum depression in her 2001 best-seller, "Behind the Smile."

Marie continued, "I really wanted to put some things down that were really meaningful to me," Osmond "It's really about attitude ... you can either let life get you down or you can laugh about it."

Co-author Marcia Wilkie added that each story could stand on its own and iprefaced with a personal photo.

Wilkie added, "The reason we wrote it that way is because many women who are busy will just pick up a book and start in the middle," "Maybe you flip it open and see a photo that interests you — you can start the book anyplace you want."

Many of the stories are nostalgic recollections of growing up like arguments about pierced ears, baking bread with her mother, how as a self-conscious prepubescent her most prized possession was a girdle.

Osmond said, "Self-esteem isn't something you buy for your kids, it's something you earn," "I was the hottest teenager dubbed into 17 languages and I'd come home after 17 hours of work and my mom would say, `OK, go scrub the toilets.'"