Man Made: A Memoir
Mar 2001 · Penguin
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Soon to be a major motion picture, here is the funny, revealing, harrowing memoir of a star journalist and hotshot hockey pro who discovers that he is biochemically changing into a woman.
On the surface, Ken Baker seemed a model man. He was a nationally ranked hockey goalie; a Hollywood correspondent for People; a guest-lister at celebrity parties; and girls came on to him. Inside, though, he didn't feel like the man he was supposed to be.
Ken found that despite being attracted to women, he had little sex drive and even less of a sex life. To his anguish, he repeatedly found himself unable to perform sexually. Regardless of strenuous workouts, his body remained flabby and soft, earning him the nickname "Pear" from his macho teammates. Physically, matters grew even more bizarre when he discovered that he was lactating.
The testosterone-driven culture in which Ken grew up made it agonizingly difficult for him to seek help. But in time he discovered something that lifted years of pain, frustration, and confusion: a brain tumor was causing his body to be flooded with massive amounts of a female hormone, which was disabling his masculinity.
Five hours of surgery accomplished what years of therapy, rumination, and denail could not -- and allowed Ken Baker to finally feel -- and function -- like a man.
Ken's story is coming to the screen in Fall 2016 in a much-anticipted Netflix feature film, The Late Bloomer, starring Academy Award-winner JK Simmons (Law & Order, Whiplash, Spider-Man) and Jane Lynch (Glee, The 40-Year-Old Virgin). Watch for the TarcherPerigee movie tie-in edition.
On the surface, Ken Baker seemed a model man. He was a nationally ranked hockey goalie; a Hollywood correspondent for People; a guest-lister at celebrity parties; and girls came on to him. Inside, though, he didn't feel like the man he was supposed to be.
Ken found that despite being attracted to women, he had little sex drive and even less of a sex life. To his anguish, he repeatedly found himself unable to perform sexually. Regardless of strenuous workouts, his body remained flabby and soft, earning him the nickname "Pear" from his macho teammates. Physically, matters grew even more bizarre when he discovered that he was lactating.
The testosterone-driven culture in which Ken grew up made it agonizingly difficult for him to seek help. But in time he discovered something that lifted years of pain, frustration, and confusion: a brain tumor was causing his body to be flooded with massive amounts of a female hormone, which was disabling his masculinity.
Five hours of surgery accomplished what years of therapy, rumination, and denail could not -- and allowed Ken Baker to finally feel -- and function -- like a man.
Ken's story is coming to the screen in Fall 2016 in a much-anticipted Netflix feature film, The Late Bloomer, starring Academy Award-winner JK Simmons (Law & Order, Whiplash, Spider-Man) and Jane Lynch (Glee, The 40-Year-Old Virgin). Watch for the TarcherPerigee movie tie-in edition.
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Incredible person, wonderful book
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About the author
Ken Baker is an award-winning author and journalist currently serving as Senior Correspondent for E! News and E! Online. Ken's on-air work for E! News has earned two Daytime Emmy Award nominations. A graduate of Colgate University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Ken has written seven books and has more than twenty years of experience as a reporter, producer, and TV/radio correspondent (Ken is a correspondent for On-Air With Ryan Seacrest). He is a writer of fiction and nonfiction books, including his own story, Man Made: A Memoir of My Body, which has been adapted into the feature film The Late Bloomer starring Academy Award-winner J.K. Simmons. Ken also authored They Don't Play Hockey in Heaven, a 2004 nonfiction account of his career as a goalie, which included overcoming a skull-base tumor to play a season of professional hockey. He is writing a new book about his search for spiritual meaning in modern culture. Ken is a frequent speaker and lecturer at U.S.C.’s Annenberg School of Communication and maintains his passion for hockey by coaching youth. A native of Buffalo, New York, Ken lives in the Los Angeles area with his wife and two children.
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