Behind the movie: the girl who got dumped and then got famous.(Real lives)(Jennifer Weiner )(Brief Article)

When Jennifer Weiner had her heart broken, she didn't gorge on chocolate, watch weepy movies, or live in her sweatpants. Instead, she started writing. Today, Weiner is a novelist whose best-selling book In Her Shoes has been turned into a movie starring Shirley MacLaine and Cameron Diaz. But in 2000, Weiner was just a Philadelphia newspaper reporter whose long-term relationship had gone down in flames. "All I wanted was to get this guy back," she says with a slight grimace. "So I thought, I'll write a story about a girl who gets dumped and how she wants the guy back, ...