This Couch Surfing Book Tour event features Chantel Guertin as she discusses her new book, Instamom, in conversation with Liz Fenton and Lisa Steinke. Chantel Guertin is a bestselling author, brand ambassador, and Toronto-based beauty expert whose own life story reflects elements of Instamom. She has been the first-ever beauty editor at ELLE CANADA and a founding editor at THE KIT. Currently, she is the beauty expert on Canada's number-one daytime talk show, the Marilyn Denis Show, and runs Ghost Bureau, a content marketing agency based out of Toronto, with her husband.
Kit Kidding has found her niche on Instagram where she gets paid to promote brands and share expertly curated posts about her fun, fabulous, child-free life. Kit likes kids just fine, but she passionately believes that women like herself who choose not to become mothers shouldn’t have to face guilt or judgement. What’s never occurred to Kit is that her stance might change and the niche she’s so carefully and tirelessly carved out for herself might no longer be relevant.
When she meets Will MacGregor, a handsome, persistent, social media averse single dad and is forced to work closely with him on an Instagram campaign, she slowly starts to feel her worldview changing, especially as she spends more time with Will’s whip-smart, eight-year-old daughter, Addie. Suddenly, Kit’s picture-perfect career path is clashing with the possibility of a different future—messy, complicated, real, and full of love. Which life does she truly want? Will she have to re-invent herself?