Drew Barrymore On Her Book Being A ‘Love Letter’ To Her Girls

Drew Barrymore has a new book, “Wildflower,” on the way, and she wrote it with her daughters in mind.

“I want this book to be a love letter to my daughters, Frankie and Olive,” the actress/producer/author told InStyle magazine, which features her on its November 2015 cover. “They don’t need to know about my sex life. My own mother, Jaid, wrote a book on sex [Secrets of World Class Lovers: Erotic Tips & Sensual Stories for a Lifetime of Sexual Fulfillment], and it was the most mortifying feeling in the world. So I know how a child feels when their parents put themselves out there too much, and I will never do that to my daughters. There are some things about your parents you just don’t need to know.”

Drew’s new book, due out on Oct. 27, will look back on her earlier years, but in her InStyle interview, she spoke about the present, with a sense of humor and practicality about her shape.

Drew Barrymore on the Nov. 2015 cover of InStyle (InStyle/Jan Welters)

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“I am who I am and I just don’t have a bikini body,” she said. “I don’t even have a one piece body anymore, but I am loving the long rash guard, board-shorts look… I’ve beaten myself up about not being a certain thing. If someone says, ‘Let’s go to the beach today,’ my first thought is, ‘F– what am I going to wear?’ I remember when Amy Schumer was on ‘Ellen,’ she called her midsection a ‘lava lamp.’ I thought, That was perfect! That’s what I’ve been trying to say. But then I saw her in ‘Trainwreck,’ and she looked so good in a tiny bra and short skirt. I was like, ‘No you don’t have a lava lamp.'”

The new issue of InStyle hits newsstands on Oct. 16, 2015.

— Jolie Lash