Picture this: you're lying in bed, earbuds in, and suddenly Jenny Slate's voice fills your head—part whisper, part cackle—as she unpacks the utter weirdness of growing a human. That's Lifeform, her Audible audiobook that's equal parts comedy special, therapy dump, and love letter to the mammal madness of new motherhood. If you've ever felt that pang of loneliness sniffing the air for connection, or the rabid fear of losing the one good thing, Jenny gets it. And she tells it like no one else.
Motherhood isn't Instagram filters and onesies; it's a blast through your body during a global plague, then pretending it's all normal. Jenny breaks it down in five phases—Single, True Love, Pregnancy, Baby, Ongoing—with essays that morph into letters to doctors, stork fantasies, raccoon chit-chat, fake obituaries, and postpartum hair loss theories. Her spine becomes xylophone planks; she's chimes and clean breaths one minute, wild-pregnant-thing the next. It's unclassifiable, just like her.
Whether you're a new parent replaying those early daze, someone pondering the baby question, or just a fan of Jenny's Little Weirds vibe, this pulls you in. I listened while folding laundry and snorted so hard I scared the cat. It answers the big ones: Was any of it ever normal? How do you befriend the dark loneliness? And yeah, what is up with that hair loss?
Pop it on during your commute and arrive grinning. Gift it to a friend who's pregnant—they'll thank you amid the nausea. Or keep it for those endless nighttime feeds when you need a laugh more than sleep. At around 5 hours unabridged, it's bite-sized brilliance that sticks. Jenny Slate doesn't just write motherhood; she explodes it into something luminous and yours.
Grab Lifeform and let her voice be the friend who says it all out loud.
