Lo Bosworth | Shelf Portrait | Marie Claire
Lo Bosworth is an investor, author, television personality, and, most notably, the Founder and CEO of Love Wellness. Today, Lo is taking Marie Claire on an exclusive tour of her bookshelf! We get insight into her favorite authors, the best bookstores in NYC, and talk about her book, "Love Yourself Well."
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00:00Hi, I'm Lo Bosworth, the founder and CEO of Love Wellness, and I am about to give Marie Claire
00:07a sneak peek into my library. Welcome to Shelf Portrait!
00:18So here we are in the little corner of my room, and I have maybe 40 books. I think there's a
00:25couple more in a different part of the house. I mean, does anybody really have a library?
00:30We have a bookshelf, right? But I have a lot of different types of books. I love fiction,
00:36nonfiction, all over the place. I'm a big reader, and especially lately I've been trying to read at
00:42least two books a month, get off my phone, get off TikTok. One of my first favorites is this one,
00:50My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a very interesting book. It basically is the story
00:56of a woman who sort of sleeps for an entire year or more in her New York City apartment,
01:02and has a friend come by and give her sustenance. But for anybody who has ever been depressed,
01:08has anxiety, anything like that, this is a really interesting read. I feel like it really helps you
01:14get outside of yourself. It certainly has helped me. So this is one of my top five books for sure.
01:19This is less of a read and more of a guide, but this is Marie Kondo, The Life-Changing Magic of
01:27Tidying. And this book, I think I bought this copy actually in Thailand at the airport. I was on a
01:36vacation a couple of years ago and I was going through or about to go through a really bad
01:42breakup. And The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying actually saved me, truly. Clean house equals a
01:52clean mind. And I have been subscribing to this method of tidying up, not exactly, but I would
01:59say 70%. I'm not very good at folding in the way that Marie Kondo suggests, but I have really become
02:07a minimalist because of this book and I absolutely love it and recommend it. It's an oldie, but a
02:13goodie. All right, next, Robert Greene. He's one of my favorite authors and this is The 33 Strategies
02:19of War. You might think I'm crazy for suggesting that you read this book, but if you want to learn
02:26how to negotiate, how to hold your own and how to interpret other people's behavior, whether it's in
02:33business, dating, friendship, like truly anything, this is the book for you. I absolutely love it and
02:41any budding entrepreneurs out there should definitely give this a read. This is a book
02:45that I'm reading right now, but I'm almost done and so I'm gonna give it a shout out. This is
02:50The Idiot and it is a really fun, funny, sort of coming-of-age story of a student at Harvard and
02:59sort of the mistress she gets into. So I love it. It's a Pulitzer Prize finalist. It's definitely
03:07worth a read. For anyone into health and wellness, it's my own book. This is Love Yourself Well.
03:14It is available right now. I wrote this book to really tell my own health story about how I was
03:21dealing with vitamin deficiencies, gut health issues, vaginal health problems, and how I was
03:27able to get better. All three organs are connected and if you take care of your gut, that means that
03:32your brain and vagina is going to be happy too. And this book also includes an incredible five-week
03:38plan to bring your body back to homeostasis. If you've been dealing with anything like gut health
03:42issues, mental health issues, vaginal health issues, this is the book for you. It took almost two years
03:48to bring this book to life. I worked with medical professionals at Love Wellness, spoke to a lot of
03:54doctors, worked with Janine Higbee, who's a certified nutritionist, to come up with our
03:58five-week plan. The book has a ton of evidence-based research in it also, so it required a lot of
04:04reading before putting all the thoughts together on paper. So what is my favorite genre? I think it
04:12has to be non-fiction, anything that is science-related, which is probably why I love running
04:22my company and why I wrote a book that was very similar in that genre. I love David Sedaris.
04:30His short stories are so incredible and we used to do a lot of books on tape growing up on long
04:37car trips with my family, and David Sedaris, we would always give him a listen. Favorite childhood
04:42book? For me, it was more of a series. I loved anything that was Ramona Quimby. Remember Ramona
04:49and her sister Beatrice? And I think it's because I have a sister and we had a funny relationship
04:53like them. My favorite place to read? It's got to be The Bath. I take a tub every day and yeah, The
05:02Bath is a great place to read. In New York City, there's a great bookstore called McNally Jackson
05:07in Soho, and that is where I go to get most of my books. It's an incredible bookstore. If you ever
05:13come to New York, definitely visit McNally Jackson or The Strand. Thank you so much to
05:19Marie Claire's Shelf Portrait. Thanks for hanging out with me in my tiny little nook of a library,
05:24and don't forget to check out Love Yourself Well. It is available wherever books are sold. If you
05:31want the gut brain vaginal bliss you deserve. See ya!