Portia de rossi new book unbearable lightness

I liked this memoir because it was honest, blunt, and real, yet surprisingly humorous and enlightening. The star opens up to us about ellen, those controversial ally mcbeal days, and. When she rose to fame in the late 90s, the press said she oozed sex appeal and rolling stone magazine branded her a hot bombshell. All i really knew was she acted on arrested development which was brilliant and singlehandedly destroyed 1,001 lesbian stereotypes. Actress says it was cathartic for her to write unbearable lightness memoir. She also portrayed veronica palmer on the abc sitcom better off ted. I only know how to read books two ways fast or not at all. Unbearable lightness was a compelling read, in fact i read it in just 3 days.

This should have been the culmination of all her years of hard workfirst as a child model in australia, then as a cast member. Unbearable lightness an unusually fresh and engrossing memoir of both hollywood and modern womanhood. It snuck up on me disguised as a healthy diet, a professional. Publication date 2010 topics actresses, television personalities, biography publisher. An unusually fresh and engrossing memoir of both hollywood and modern womanhood. Delaware county district library ohio scanned in china. A crucial book for all those who might sometimes feel at war with themselves or their bodies, unbearable lightness is a story that inspires hope and nourishes the spirit. Written with artistry, compelling insight and lucid frankness, unbearable lightness offers solid hope and inducement to initiate the odyssey toward selfknowledge and acceptance. She grew up in grovedale, a suburb of geelong, victoria, and modelled for print and tv commercials. The blurbs on the back were by some of my favorite authors, a plus.

Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Portia says she went on her first diet when she was 12 years old. Unbearable lightness deals with her struggle with an eating disorder and her homosexuality early on in her career when she played on. In the preface there is an excerpt from later in the book when she was only consuming a tiny amount about 300 calories a day. In the preface there is an excerpt from the middle of the book, which contains a description of how she was. It snuck up on me disguised as a healthy diet, a professional attitude.

Most of the book deals with her illness, how she became anorexic, her state of. In the preface there is an excerpt from the middle of the book, which contains a description of how she was only consuming a tiny amount. Ill approach any famous persons memoir with the same level of skepticism. Ok, ok i also bought a new mugbusted haha in unbearable lightness, portia talks very candidly about her struggles with an eating disorder, being a closet lesbian, and the pressure she felt from the modeling and acting world to have the perfect body. Launching herself into the world of modelling age 12 was a disaster, leading to years of bingeing and purging and anorexia, as the only way to control her weight to be the expected size of a modelactress. She had started modeling and had to call an agency to tell them her measurements. A story of loss and gain, which chronicles her eating disorder and how she recovered.

This autobiography tells of an entertainers career, life, and her. In this web exclusive, portia opens up about her new memoir, unbearable lightness. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read unbearable lightness. A quick scan of the inside jacket was enough to convince me to give it a try i dont like to read the whole blurb because i dont want to know the ending. Being as thin as possible was a way to make the job of being an actress easier. This should have been the culmination of all her years of hard work first as a child model in australia, then as a cast member of one of the hottest shows on american television. Now, portia is coming forward about it all in her new book, unbearable lightness. This autobiography tells of an entertainers career, life, and her struggles with anorexia that left her with lupus. Its also portia s story of accepting her sexuality, coming out in hollywood, marrying ellen degeneres and what life is really like inside the hollywood machine. This should have been the culmination of all her years of hard work first as a child model in australia, then as a cast member of.

The bearable heaviness of portia derossis unbearable. Its also portias story of accepting her sexuality, coming out in hollywood, marrying ellen degeneres and what life is really like inside the hollywood machine. Personally, i have only seen arrested development, although ally mcbeal has been on my towatchlist forever. Description an unusually fresh and engrossing memoir of both hollywood and modern womanhood. In 2004, her personal life also made headlines when she started dating comedian and talk show host ellen degeneres.