Hey Beautiful.!! Hey Beautiful.!! Back in the spring of 2014, I set off on a literary adventure—not to create an earth-shattering manifesto, but to weave a tale about Solène Marchand. Imagine her: a woman teetering on the edge of 40, poised to redefine herself through an unexpected whirlwind romance with a celebrity many years her junior. Hey Beautiful.!! At that time, as an actor myself hovering in that same age bracket, I was beginning to notice a disheartening shift in the roles available to me. The vibrant characters of my past were being replaced by more subdued figures, and the once-abundant opportunities were dwindling. Hollywood, it seemed, had decided that women past 40 had lost their allure, their desirability, their very essence as sexual beings. I was determined to challenge this narrative, even if just in my own subtle way. Hey Beautiful.!! By the time my novel, The Idea Of You , hit the shelves in 2017, it became apparent that I was also grappling with another beast