“Sober Mine” is the title of Angela White’s forthcoming memoir, and in the caption announcing it she described the book as the story of how she found her way back to herself. The full title is “Sober Mine: Letting Go of Blac Chyna and Living My Faith.” It arrives January 12, 2027, and preorders are open now. She revealed the cover on her own page the same day People published it, and the portrait was shot by Noah Nash.
The framing she gave it is the part worth sitting with. She wrote that for years people believed they knew her from what they saw online while never seeing what she was fighting privately, and she named those things directly. Addiction. Pain. Shame. Fear. Looking for love in places that were never going to heal her. She said there were stretches where she did not recognize the woman in the mirror. Then came the line the whole caption turns on. “Then Jesus met me where I was.”
She was explicit that this is not the book people might be bracing for. Not a celebrity tell all, she said, but a testimony about her life, built around surrender, forgiveness, faith, and healing. She wrote that sobriety did not simply change her life, it returned it to her, and that what it gave back was peace, clarity, purpose, and her own name. She closed by addressing anyone who has felt lost or wondered whether it was too late, told them the book was written for them, and asked people to preorder so the message reaches whoever needs it.
The publishing details around Sober Mine are worth explaining, because the reporting has mostly said HarperCollins and moved on. The book is coming from Amistad, which is an imprint, meaning a smaller publishing house that operates under a larger one with its own editors and its own identity. Amistad is not just any imprint. Charles F. Harris founded it in 1986 as the first large scale independent Black owned general trade publishing house in the country, after he had already launched Howard University Press, the first Black university press in the United States. He sold Amistad to HarperCollins in 1999 and stayed on to run it. It remains the oldest imprint at any major New York publisher devoted to Black readers and Black authors.
The catalog is the point. Amistad published Zora Neale Hurston’s “Barracoon,” Edward P. Jones’s Pulitzer winning “The Known World,” Cicely Tyson’s “Just As I Am,” Jacqueline Woodson’s “Another Brooklyn,” and Chris Gardner’s “The Pursuit of Happyness.” That is the house that acquired this memoir, and it says something about how it is being positioned that a different imprint would not have said.
Angela Renée White is 38 and from Washington, DC. She danced at a Miami club before anyone knew her name, then broke through in 2010 as Nicki Minaj’s body double in the “Monster” video, with Drake name dropping her on “Miss Me” the same year. She launched Lashed in 2014 and built out beauty and fashion ventures from there. What made her a household name was not the businesses, though. It was her relationships with Tyga and Rob Kardashian, the second of which produced its own reality series, and the decade of public commentary that came with both.
The turn happened in 2022. She got sober, had her facial fillers dissolved, began reversing other cosmetic work, and was baptized. On January 17, 2023, she received a Doctorate of Liberal Arts from Sacramento Theological Seminary and Bible College, and she is currently pursuing further study in divinity. She has two children, King Cairo, 13, with Tyga, and Dream Renée, 9, with Kardashian.
She has talked publicly about the specifics before. On Piers Morgan Uncensored she described how she came to recognize herself as an alcoholic, explaining that she had assumed the label only applied to people who needed a drink to start the day, and that what she actually did was binge until she could not stop. She said she does not miss it and does not fight temptation, but that she has dreams where she has been drinking and wakes up shaken, because she has already started over enough times and is not doing it again.
That history is what makes the subtitle of “Sober Mine” read the way it does. Letting Go of Blac Chyna” is not a rebrand line. She legally has always been Angela White, and Blac Chyna was the name attached to the years she is describing as the ones she needed to survive. The book is her account of the distance between the two, written by her rather than assembled about her, which after fifteen years of other people narrating her life is the actual news here.
“Sober Mine” is available for preorder now.
