Zoë Foster Blake announces shock career change - and why Nicole Kidman could play the makeup mogul onscreen

Zoë Foster Blake is setting out to forge a new career in television.

The 44-year-old Go-To skincare mogul has just sold the TV rights to her new novel Things Will Calm Down Soon.

And there's a chance that Nicole Kidman will get to play the book's main character - a businesswoman with a resemblance to the real-life Blake.

TV Tonight reported on Friday that Blake has made the deal with Sydney-based company Made Up Stories who plan to make the book as a series in the US.

The high-profile outfit is led by producer Bruna Papandrea, who has a strong relationship with Kidman.

The Hollywood superstar has already starred in a number of Made Up Stories productions, including HBO 's The Undoing in 2020 and 2021's Nine Perfect Strangers as well as the Apple+ anthology series Roar in 2022.

The 57-year-old Oscar winner also co-produced the 2017 HBO hit Big Little Lies with Papandrea.

Blake, who shares Sonny, eight, and Rudy, five, with her radio star husband Hamish, also announced she will be an executive producer on the new series.

Published earlier this month Things Will Calm Down Soon centres on a 30-year-old hairstylist called Kit who sets out to launch her own product line.

But things get complicated as the would-be corporate mogul tangles with investors amidst romantic disappointment and family demands.

'As a female founder, a mother, and a lover of books, I knew immediately I had to bring Zoë's brilliant, complex, and aspirational book to life as a US-set TV series,' Papandrea said in a statement.

She continued: 'I continue to be inspired to make super fun things I desperately want to see, and the world needs to meet Kit, a woman who reminds me of so many kickass women I know.'

Blake, meanwhile said was 'excited' that Made Up Stories is setting out to adapt her book.

A well-known author Blake's 2014 adult novel The Wrong Girl was later adapted into a short-lived Channel 10 series of the same name in 2016.

It comes after Blake recently revealed the toll of balancing motherhood and her multimillion dollar career has taken on her mental health.

In an interview with Stellar Magazine last month she said:

'You get into that survivor mentality when you're super slammed, and knowing it will calm down eventually is the carrot to dangle, but most women I know say, "It's just how we live our life; things will calm down soon." Guess what? It doesn't.'

She continued: 'I feel like there's a lot of awareness about the mental load – which was something we didn't even have a name for – and the admin load, and being overstimulated. I go, "Oh, I'm not a bitch, I'm just overstimulated."

'My friends will text me and say, "Another book? How are you doing it all?" There's a genuine curiosity and my genuine answer is: at great cost – to my mental health, to my time with my family, to my physical health.

'The things that got put aside for me to be able to finish this project and do it well are quite enormous'.

The businesswoman recently broke her silence on buying back her stake in her skincare brand Go-To after beauty company BWX went into administration.

The Australian author first sold her 51.5 per cent stake of her beauty brand to the ASX listed beauty conglomerate for $89million in 2021.

But just two years later, Blake and Go-To co-founder Paul Bates bought back their controlling stake in the business for a fraction of the price at $21.8million after BWX collapsed into administration in April 2023.