
Photo by Wendy Waddell
She defined 1980’s teenage angst in Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles, and The Breakfast Club. These days, Molly Ringwald is a mom in her 40s (and playing a mom on The Secret Life of the American Teenager on ABC). In Getting the Pretty Back: Friendship, Family, and Finding the Perfect Lipstick (It Books) Ringwald writes of embracing womanhood with style and humor. Getting the Pretty Back will be released in paperback on April 26, 2011. I caught up with Molly for LAmag.com and asked her where she likes to hang out in L.A.

Read my “LA to Z” feature with Molly Ringwald on LAmag.com. Or download a pdf of this story: Q&A.2010.05.Ringwald