In Kerman's bestseller, however, their relationship is less hot and way more cold. The Netflix show paints a passionate hot-and-cold relationship between the two. In the book, Wolters is known as Nora Jansen. One of the series' most beloved relationships is between Chapman and her former lover Alex Vause (played by Laura Prepon inspired by real-life ex-girlfriend Cleary Wolters). Piper's Relationship With Alex Had a Happier Ending Than Her Real-Life Relationship

Even some of the drama we see Piper Chapman (played by Taylor Schilling inspired by Kerman) face on the small screen is an exaggerated version of what the real Piper experiences. Her journey is the only one we go along, making all of those Netflix backstories nothing more than dramatized fiction. The book is written in the first-person point of view by Kerman. The depth of their stories, though, is far from what you'll read. Characters Red (written as Pop), Lorna (based on two book characters, Minetta and Rosemarie), Taystee (written as Delicious), and Sophia (written as Vanessa) are all pulled as inspiration from the memoir. While the final season of Orange Is the New Black shows us where each of our favorite Litchfield ladies ends up (some roaming free, while others tragically pass), Kerman's book never actually gets deep into the other women's lives. The Inmates' Stories Are Fictionalized For Netflix If you're fixated on shipping the characters or biting your nails at the prison drama, you're in for a real surprise. She may appear in the series finale, but the show's ending depicts a very different story than how Piper and her fellow inmates end up. If you skipped the famous memoir, you were likely pulled in by the popular Netflix adaption of the same name, loosely based on Kerman's experience. She went from former inmate of Danbury Federal Corrections Institution to New York Times bestselling author of Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison.

The year 2010 marked when Piper Kerman really turned her life around. Warning: Spoilers ahead for Orange Is the New Black!

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