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When Rosie was only nineteen, the father of her newborn walked out with no warning. With no college degree, no career, and an addiction to emotional eating, Rosie was overwhelmed. Rosie's life was anything but easy, especially when her weight ballooned to 400 pounds. Yet she never, ever gave up. Despite the pain, the rejection, and the disappointment, there were small victories and successes. Each one gave her the strength to keep on going. Eventually,...
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Publisher
The Open Field/Penguin Life
Pub. Date
[2022].
Language
English
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"Writer and former model Paulina Porizkova pens a series of intimate, introspective, and enlightening essays about the complexities of womanhood at every age, pulling back the glossy magazine cover and writing from the heart"--
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Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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The influential performer recounts her spectacular career and turbulent life--from her strict religious upbringing in Jamaica to sharing screen time with Arnold Schwarzenegger--charting the development of a persona that has made her one of the world's most recognizable artists.
"Memoir from model and actress Grace Jones"--Provided by publisher.
12) Perfect is boring: 10 things my crazy, fierce mama taught me about beauty, booty, and being a boss
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Publisher
TarcherPerigee
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Shares the life lessons Tyra Banks learned from her mother and applied to her highly successful career, and how their close bond helped them to overcome many obstacles in life.
14) Knockout
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Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"An intimate and unflinching memoir exploring Mia Kang's journey from self-loathing to self-love... Mia Kang is many things: a sought-after model, an immigrant, an eating disorder survivor, and a Muay Thai fighter. Her first book, Knockout, is the story of how she eschewed normative body standards and learned to use martial arts to redeαne her sense of self-worth. In a charming, αerce, and intimate voice, Kang invites readers into her world. She...
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Regan Arts
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
Description
The tumultuous and heartbreaking life of a world-famous model whose riveting story of beauty, fame, passion, murder and madness in the Gilded Age captivated a nation. Her likeness appears on New York's Municipal Building, as "Miss Manhattan" and "Miss Brooklyn" outside the Brooklyn Museum, is immortalized on the Manhattan Bridge, the Frick Mansion, the New York Public Library, and the Pulitzer Fountain outside the Plaza Hotel. In gold, bronze, and...
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
Description
"Scouted by a modeling agent when she was just sixteen years old, Cameron Russell first approached her job with some reservations: She was a precocious and serious student with her sights set on college -- not the runway. But it was a job, and modeling seemed to offer young women like herself access to wealth, fame, and influence. Besides, as she was often reminded, "there are a million girls in line" who would eagerly replace her. A ferocious, visceral...
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"A heartfelt and inspiring memoir and celebration of Deaf culture by Nyle DiMarco, actor, producer, two-time reality show winner, and cultural icon of the international Deaf community. Before becoming the actor, producer, advocate, and model that people know today, Nyle DiMarco was half of a pair of Deaf twins born to a multi-generational Deaf family in Queens, New York. At the hospital one day after he was born, Nyle "failed" his first test--a hearing...
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Random House Canada
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"A funny, daring, bawdy and incredibly honest memoir from the anti-ageist, anti-body shaming, pro-sex advocate and erotic provocateur. Over the course of his 35-year career in show business, David Pevsner has done it all. He's acted on Broadway, off-Broadway, in independent films and on numerous TV network shows including Grey's Anatomy, Modern Family and Criminal Minds. As he continues his career in entertainment, Pevsner has also dedicated himself...
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In her revelatory and redemptive memoir, Beverly Johnson, the first African American supermodel to grace the cover of Vogue, recounts her career in her own passionate and deeply honest voice. She chronicles her childhood as a studious, and sometimes bullied, bookworm during the sixties. She left college to pursue modeling and a successful three-decade career followed. Amid glamorous tales of the hard partying of the 1970s and Hollywood during the...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Based on interviews with more than one hundred people in five countries, The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump draws an unprecedented portrait of the first lady. While her public image is of an aloof woman floating above the political gamesmanship of Washington, behind the scenes Melania Trump is not only part of President Trump's inner circle, but for some key decisions she has been his single most influential adviser. Throughout...
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