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Beauty, Disrupted (2011)

by Carre Otis(Favorite Author)

3.41 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0062024450 (ISBN13: 9780062024459)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

It Books

review 1: Beauty, Disrupted was a better read than expected. Although Otis has really only modeled, married a dysfunctional star and overcome addiction and eating disorders, which are definitely accomplishments, she's more of a supporting player on the stage of life. Her story, however, is compelling and ultimately an encouraging turnaround. Dyslexic in a dysfunctional family, Otis struggled through childhood and adolescence only to drop out and run away at sixteen. Fortunately, she is able to become a model avoiding the street life of many runaways. After she is cast opposite Mickey Rourke in the controversial Wild Orchid, Otis embarks on a abusive, drug fueled marriage in her early twenties that nearly destroys her career.Eventually, finding her center in Buddhism, she finds fulfi... morellment and eventually love, settling into family life in Colorado.I found this memoir well written and a quick read. I was rooting for Otis and ultimately optimistic about her future. Although she does not devote as much of the book to her body image issues, I really related to her resentment of the annoying and intrusive comments one must endure during pregnancy. Why DO people feel free to touch pregnant women's body parts. Would you do that to a woman who wasn't pregnant? Seriously! I also think this would be a good book for young girls who are aspiring models or have body image issues as Otis seems to have overcome her demons and provides a sobering perspective on the "glamorous life".Some reviews objected to the fact that this was really an elongated tabloid story, but really, isn't that why we read it as well as tabloids? One shouldn't expect "War and Peace" here and if one just reads it as a more upbeat than usual celebrity memoir, it is a compelling story.
review 2: So much of the author's childhood and teen life was parallel to mine... I kept thinking during the whole thing that OMG we should be friends... Then of course she became a supermodel who got screwed over by her ex and I became an office worker who got screwed by my ex, but I digress...Couldn't put it down, it was odd reading something so similar to my own past. Now I don't have to write mine. Plus, seeing the brutal reviews of this book make me certain I never would be able to handle the criticism and judgment if I ever did. Ha less

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