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3.8 AVERAGE
3.8 AVERAGE
2.5 stars?
This is a very honest telling of how an eating disorder can change the way a person thinks about and speaks to themselves, but having only a 15 page ending about getting help and recovering was very rushed.
This is a very honest telling of how an eating disorder can change the way a person thinks about and speaks to themselves, but having only a 15 page ending about getting help and recovering was very rushed.
Really good book, very good to read for someone who has eating disorder issues or someone who is trying to understand what having an eating disorder is like. It’s a very honest, telling book that I’m glad I took the time to read.
I'm not really sure what to say. This book was haunting and beautiful, and I admire Portia for everything she's faced and overcome.
But it left me feeling strange. I don't know how to explain it. After reading some of the other reviews here, I think it may be that she spent 250 pages describing her disease in minutia, but spent less than 50 describing her recovery in broad strokes.
No matter what, I am very glad I read this book.
But it left me feeling strange. I don't know how to explain it. After reading some of the other reviews here, I think it may be that she spent 250 pages describing her disease in minutia, but spent less than 50 describing her recovery in broad strokes.
No matter what, I am very glad I read this book.
This audiobook will stay with me. Portia de Rossi's unflinching self-assessment and honesty was well-crafted and well performed. She lets the reader into her mind, and I am grateful for the wrenching, glorious seat on that ride.
This is a difficult book to review. It gave me lots of conflicting feelings.
This book isn't a story of Portia De Rossis recovery from anorexia, it is a cautionary tale. It is a detailed journey down to rock bottom. Her recovery is literally all summed up in the (unusually long) epilogue, and involves vague concepts, practical techniques, and strange opinions about life and eating.
The book should come with a trigger - warning. It is a very detailed, informative look at how to be anorexic. And while I felt compassion toward De Rossi and her struggle with her eating disorders I also didn't really like her as a person. I have never met her, but the aspects of the book that reveal what kind of a person she is suggested she isn't someone I would get along with. Also, she married Ellen, who I also have conflicted feelings about.
This book isn't a story of Portia De Rossis recovery from anorexia, it is a cautionary tale. It is a detailed journey down to rock bottom. Her recovery is literally all summed up in the (unusually long) epilogue, and involves vague concepts, practical techniques, and strange opinions about life and eating.
The book should come with a trigger - warning. It is a very detailed, informative look at how to be anorexic. And while I felt compassion toward De Rossi and her struggle with her eating disorders I also didn't really like her as a person. I have never met her, but the aspects of the book that reveal what kind of a person she is suggested she isn't someone I would get along with. Also, she married Ellen, who I also have conflicted feelings about.
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
inspiring
sad
tense
medium-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia
I picked this up after I read a thread on Reddit about insane celeb memoirs. This was…. something. Would love to know what happened to the dog.
Excellent book. I don't really read memoirs, but this was both well written and didn't seem to just be the results of a ghost writer. Intensely personal and open, honest depiction of struggles with an eating disorder, sexuality, and questions of self worth many women struggle with.
If I could give this more than 5 stars, I would!
Such a beautiful book and I feel that I cab relate to Portia, in that of the obsessiveness about anorexia - counting, measuring, weighing, burning, restricting, losing, gaining... And again with the binges - such an exhilarating rush, a reward, a joy to be eating everything you want. Although I never successfully purged, except for exercise or restriction the next few days.
I, as well, have hit my fattest point, and now all I need to do is maintain to my normal body weight - something that is 50lbs lighter than I am - and this book gives me the desire to do it the hard - and easy - way.
I have never seen any movies or shows with Portia so I've never been a fan... But I've a fan of this book.
Such a beautiful book and I feel that I cab relate to Portia, in that of the obsessiveness about anorexia - counting, measuring, weighing, burning, restricting, losing, gaining... And again with the binges - such an exhilarating rush, a reward, a joy to be eating everything you want. Although I never successfully purged, except for exercise or restriction the next few days.
I, as well, have hit my fattest point, and now all I need to do is maintain to my normal body weight - something that is 50lbs lighter than I am - and this book gives me the desire to do it the hard - and easy - way.
I have never seen any movies or shows with Portia so I've never been a fan... But I've a fan of this book.