This is the story of DarcyRhone, who is not a very likeable main character.  She comes from a background of believing that things are about appearance and that being beautiful is one of the most important parts of her life.  She works in PR, is very into shopping and partying and seems to judge everyone, even those she is closest to, on very shallow standards.  At the beginning of this story she is cheating on her fiance with one of his groomsmen, becomes pregnant and goes to break off her engagement only to find that her fiance has been seeing her best friend.

Darcy tries hard to play the part of the victim and becomes very obsessed with Rachel and Dex’s new relationship even as she tries to make a go of things with her new boyfriend.  Very quickly she realizes that her relationship with Marcus was about lust and not much more and she tries to figure out what to do now that she is pregnant and having relationship problems with just about everyone in her life. 
Darcy ends up running to England to visit Ethan, a childhood friend.  She stays with him for several weeks before he speaks very pointedly about the flaws he sees in her character and then she makes some effort to change.  However even in her efforts to change for the better I never felt that she actually did anything to truly change.  Darcy was able to make progress on some fronts but was very self-centered pretty much throughout the story. 

This was a good fast read (beach book?) and like I said, I’ll probably go back to visit Something Borrowed. 

To add to this Claudia has a sister who is having trouble getting pregnant after two years of trying and a 35-year old best friend who is single and considering her options if she wants to have children.  Comments are made from these people she loves, to her, that she could not understand the pressure and sadness that they are feeling being childless and wanting children.  Claudia is forced to explain her reasoning, and also to try to explain that she still has feelings, pressure and sadness in the other alternative.

I truly enjoyed Baby Proof and think others would too.  It’s definitely what I would call lighter reading, but it dealt with some very real issues.  If you like books in the chick lit genre, this would be a good one to try.