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Cargando... Wake Up, I'm Fat! (edición 1999)por Camryn Manheim (Autor)
Información de la obraWake Up, I'm Fat! por Camryn Manheim
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Ok, I'm a Camryn Manheim groupie. I think she's a good actress but she really sucked me in with her talk show appearances. She's so very articulate and fun. So, when her book hit the stands, I grabbed it and then proceeded to gobble it up. It reads like a letter from an old friend. When I got done, I wanted to call her up and tell her how great it was and ask when we could meet for lunch. I'm sure she has some fatal flaw but I don't want to know about it. ( ) While serving as Camryn Manheim's autobiography, this book is more about her experiences and struggles with female body image in America, which continues to devalue and dehumanize millions of people through discriminatory practices and prejudiced behaviors. Manheim's life story is both funny and poignant, and ultimately uplifting as she ultimately manages to make a career as an actress against stereotype. This isn't quite a "Hollywood Insider" book (unless you want the dirt about crafts service during Romy and Michele's High School Reunion), but it's an enjoyable and endearing read even if you aren't directly interested in body politics or feminism. It's a funny story how I found this book.I went to a used bookstore and there it was...in the bargain bin.Needless to say, I had to rescue this book from being thrown away.I paid a quarter for this book and I haven't been sorry for buying it at all.Why do I love this book? Because unlike other plus size women, she doesn't apologize for how she looks but instead, she praises being healthy.I definitely understand where she is coming from because I'm a plus size woman and I know how cruel society can be. Also, she talks about everything from her name change to working on "The Practice", which is definitely a big step for plus size women everywhere.After I read her book, I began to think about my own body and how I sometimes feel out of place around thin women.Once I finished, I realized that it doesn't matter what other people think of your body, it's what you think of your body that counts.This is a book that I feel every girl and woman should have an opportunity to read.Not only will it inspire plus size women and girls, but it will also give new insight to those who have never understood what it is to be "fat". It's a funny story how I found this book.I went to a used bookstore and there it was...in the bargain bin.Needless to say, I had to rescue this book from being thrown away.I paid a quarter for this book and I haven't been sorry for buying it at all.Why do I love this book? Because unlike other plus size women, she doesn't apologize for how she looks but instead, she praises being healthy.I definitely understand where she is coming from because I'm a plus size woman and I know how cruel society can be. Also, she talks about everything from her name change to working on "The Practice", which is definitely a big step for plus size women everywhere.After I read her book, I began to think about my own body and how I sometimes feel out of place around thin women.Once I finished, I realized that it doesn't matter what other people think of your body, it's what you think of your body that counts.This is a book that I feel every girl and woman should have an opportunity to read.Not only will it inspire plus size women and girls, but it will also give new insight to those who have never understood what it is to be "fat". sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Thankfully, Camryn Manheim has never played by the rules. Her fierce determination to defy the beauty myth, the naysayers, and casting stereotypes has resulted in one of today's most remarkable and unique Hollywood success stories. Her groundbreaking role as Ellenor Frutt on television's hottest drama, The Practice, has won her an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award--victories that are the culmination of decades of hard work, perseverance, and battles fought with her parents, lovers, the establishment, and herself. In this inspirational memoir, Camryn chronicles her journey from a self-hating, "overweight" teenager who desperately wanted to fit in, to a self-loving, fat activist who is proud to be a misfit. Wake Up, I'm Fat! shares her intelligent, candid, poignant, and often hilarious stories of being fat in a society obsessed with being thin. Camryn takes us from her days as a motorcycle-riding hippie in Santa Cruz to her enrollment at New York University's prestigious school of drama--where Pulitzer Prize-winning Tony Kushner broke the unspoken theater rules of size and cast her in the role of the ingenue--and finally to Hollywood, where she dispelled the fallacy that large women can't be portrayed as sensual, sophisticated, and confident. Camryn's endearing honesty, sass, and razor-sharp wit will appeal to all those who have ever felt like outcasts or yearned to make peace with their bodies. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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