She’s humiliated at an overblown kiddie birthday party. Those who live by the status symbol die by the status symbol, so Molly’s fall from grace plays out along material lines. As a member of the First Wives Club might say, “I never saw that coming.” Unfortunately, she succeeds, and he leaves her for a pop starlet half his age. Tanned, toned, waxed and polished, Molly puts in 17-hour days making her husband look like the world’s most desirable catch. In The Starter Wife, USA’s five-week, six-part miniseries based on the best-selling novel by Gigi Levangie Grazer (Hollywood producer Brian Grazer’s ex-wife), a radiant Debra Messing plays Molly, wife to powerful studio head Kenny (Peter Jacobson). You’ve got five minutes until your first catfight. Girl, wake up and smell the dirty laundry. She’s spent hours in the mirror practicing the blush she’ll flash when she hears her husband’s reply: “Mommy, always and forever.” She thought life post-altar would be a never-ending paradise of Sunday brunches with the newspaper and scones, and adorably clad children clambering onto laps to ask whom Daddy loves best. WHOLLY MATRIMONYStarter Wife Debra Messing and Army Wives’ Kim Delaney (below) go it alone.
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