Pippa Middleton attends Day Ten of the 2012 US Open (Getty Images)
Pippa Middleton opens up about her famous family and her equally famous derriere in her new party-planning book “Celebrate: A Year of Festivities for Families and Friends.”
“It’s a bit startling to achieve global recognition before the age of 30 on account of your sister, your brother-in-law and your bottom,” writes Kate Middleton’s little sis, according to a book excerpt published in the UK weekly You. “One day I might be able to make sense of this. In the meantime I think it’s fair to say that it has its upside and its downside.”
In the photos accompanying the excerpt, a beaming Middleton holds a tray of baked goods to smiling children during a sunny Autumn day.
“I certainly have opportunities many can only dream of — but in most ways I’m a typical girl in her 20s trying to forge a career and represent herself in what can sometimes seem rather strange circumstances,” she writes. “One of the most attractive has been the chance to publish ‘Celebrate.’”
The 29-year-old socialite hopes to give the public a glimpse at what she does for a living. “I know many of you will pick up the book out of nothing more than curiosity. I can assure you that it feels even stranger to me than it probably does to you to have seen so much written about me when I have done so little to paint a picture of myself.”
Her book, out Oct. 30, provides seasonal entertainment ideas and recipes based on her experience in her family’s online party-supply company Party Pieces and the work she’s done for the London-based events company Table Talk.
Pippa caused a stir in early September when she came to New York for meetings about the book, that was reportedly inked for six figures. Sources told Page Six she will be back in the US in late October to go on tour.