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Soon to be a feature film, The Late Bloomer is the uncovering, harrowing, and frequently funny memoir of your superstar journalist and former hotshot hockey player who discovers that he has been biochemically infused with a female hormone. On the top, Ken Baker looked a model man. He was a nationally ranked hockey goalie; a Hollywood correspondent for People; a guest-lister at superstar parties; and females came on to him. Inside, though, he didn't feel just like the person he was supposed to be. Although drawn to women, Ken possessed little libido and so even less of your making love life. To his anguish, he repeatedly found himself unable to perform sexually. And, regardless of strenuous exercises, his body struggled to build up muscle, gaining him the nickname "Pear" from his macho teammates. Physically, matters switched bizarre when he learned that he was lactating. The testosterone-driven culture in which Ken grew up managed to get agonizingly problematic for him to seek help. But in time he learned something that lifted many years of pain, irritation, and distress: a brain tumor was causing his body to be flooded with substantial amounts of a female hormone, which was disabling his masculinity. Five hours of surgery achieved what many years of therapy, rumination, and denial could not - and allowed Ken Baker to finally feel - and function - like a man. Now Ken's tale comes to the display in the feature film, The Late Bloomer, starring Academy Award winner J.K. Simmons and Jane Lynch.
