The prolific TV star/creator helms 'The Female Brain,' a book she's adapted into a pop-science rom-com starring Sofia Vergara, James Marsden and the NBA's Blake Griffin. Whitney Cummings was right around 30 when her mother and father suffered strokes within two years of each other. Desperate to understand what went wrong, she began devouring neurology books, which led her to Louann Brizendine's The Female Brain.