{"id":12541,"date":"2025-11-14T07:46:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T07:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/?p=12541"},"modified":"2025-11-14T07:46:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T07:46:40","slug":"i-liked-guys-who-didnt-like-me-anna-kendricks-brutally-honest-dating-confession-in-her-memoir-shocked-her-millions-of-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/?p=12541","title":{"rendered":"“I liked guys who didn’t like me”: Anna Kendrick’s brutally honest dating confession in her memoir shocked her millions of fans."},"content":{"rendered":"

Actress Anna Kendrick<\/b>, known for her sharp wit and refreshingly relatable self-deprecating humor, built a massive following by embracing her awkwardness. Nothing better encapsulates this brand than a viral dating story that became a cornerstone of her autobiographical essays, revealing the vulnerable reason behind her early romantic struggles.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\ud83c\udfe8 The Hilarious Hotel Room Offer<\/span><\/h3>\n

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The story, which she first shared on Twitter in 2013<\/b>, describes a moment of extreme youthful naivety. At the age of 18<\/b>, during a party, a guy attempted a romantic overture by asking the loaded question, “Can I go home with you?”<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Kendrick, in her signature “scrappy” innocence, completely missed the flirtatious innuendo. Believing the man was genuinely homeless<\/b>, she responded by kindly trying to book him a hotel room<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The humor of the moment, with the hashtag #naive<\/b> and #truestory<\/b>, immediately resonated with fans, who celebrated her clumsy, genuine entry into adulthood.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\ud83d\udc94 The Brutally Honest Confession in Her Memoir<\/span><\/h3>\n

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Kendrick later elaborated on this and other dating misadventures in her collection of autobiographical essays, <\/span>Scrappy Little Nobody<\/span><\/i><\/b>, which was published on <\/span>November 15, 2016<\/span><\/b>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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In the book, the star\u2014who received an Academy Award nomination<\/b> for her role as Natalie Keener<\/b> in the 2009<\/b> film Up in the Air<\/i><\/b>\u2014delved deeper into her dating history, making a brutally honest confession:<\/span><\/p>\n

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“I liked guys who didn’t like me.”<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

She admitted that her early dating experiments were often unsuccessful because she had a tendency to only pursue men who were emotionally unavailable or who clearly didn’t reciprocate her feelings. This raw, honest analysis is characteristic of the book\u2019s tone, which was nominated for a <\/span>Goodreads Choice Award<\/span><\/b> in the <\/span>Best Humor category<\/span><\/b> in <\/span>2016<\/span><\/b>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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This combination of self-deprecating humor and honest vulnerability cemented Kendrick\u2019s reputation: a talented star who still finds her life hilarious and awkward, making her journey relatable to millions of fans.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Actress Anna Kendrick, known for her sharp wit and refreshingly relatable self-deprecating humor, built a massive following by embracing her awkwardness. Nothing better encapsulates this brand than a viral dating story that became a cornerstone of her autobiographical essays, revealing the vulnerable reason behind her early romantic struggles. \ud83c\udfe8 The Hilarious Hotel Room Offer  …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}