Katie Sturino, SUNNY SIDE UP: A Novel
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
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🗓️ 19 November 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
At Totally Booked: Live! at the Whitby Hotel, Zibby interviews debut author and entrepreneur Katie Sturino about her sexy, laugh-out-loud romcom, SUNNY SIDE UP. Katie reveals how the book grew from her own post-divorce journey and her desire to portray a confident, bigger-bodied woman navigating dating, friendship, and self-reinvention, without conforming to “revenge body” tropes. She dives into the novel’s bold early scenes, the importance of supportive female friendships, and the real-life inspiration behind Sunny’s entrepreneurial storyline. Finally, she talks about building her personal care brand, Megababe, which offers clean, cute products that tackle “taboo” body issues… like the anti-chafing Thigh Rescue stick and the Le Tush butt mask.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Totally Booked Live at the Whitby Hotel. I am so excited to be interviewing a whole |
| 0:07.9 | host of authors in person. Today we have Katie Sterino, and I am so thrilled to be talking to her |
| 0:14.4 | about Sunny Side Up her novel. Welcome. Hello. Thank you so much for having me, and I'm so excited to |
| 0:20.6 | meet you. Yeah, I'm so excited to meet you. |
| 0:21.1 | Yeah, I'm so excited to meet you, too. |
| 0:23.2 | Okay, Sunny Side Up. |
| 0:24.6 | Let's tell everybody a little bit about this book. |
| 0:27.3 | This book is the book that I needed to read when I got a divorce. |
| 0:33.6 | I really wanted something that was inspiring that showed a woman who was able to transform her life kind of on her own without having to, which I read and saw so many movies when I was going through a divorce, about women who went to the gym and like got a revenge body and then showed up and then they were worthy to find that second |
| 0:56.0 | chance at love. And I wanted someone who actually didn't do any of that. She actually |
| 1:02.0 | gains weight. She, she does all of this in a bigger body. And I, I didn't see any stories like |
| 1:08.6 | that. It's similar to what I went through personally. |
| 1:12.1 | And so I wanted to provide a narrative that I would have enjoyed. |
| 1:16.2 | So let's talk about some of these immediate rendezvous that you have early on. |
| 1:21.4 | I have to say in the first, what, I don't know, 40 pages, this character has gotten together |
| 1:26.1 | with quite a few people. |
| 1:27.4 | It's true. |
| 1:28.1 | Who you might not expect. |
| 1:29.6 | No. |
| 1:30.5 | Yes, I know. |
| 1:31.7 | Did this follow your journey? |
| 1:34.0 | There were some parallels. |
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