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A review by sonia_reppe
Fast Girl: A Life Spent Running from Madness by Suzy Favor Hamilton
5.0
She's so pretty. In the 90's I admired Suzy Hamilton. I was running on my high school cross-country team and I used to cut out pictures of her from Runner's World, hang them in my room or paste them to my journal. (I still have that old journal and there she is on the cover, wearing a Reebok shirt and beaming into the camera). She stood out. Apparently, in December of 2012 news broke that she was leading a secret life as an expensive call girl but I only just found out earlier this year when I heard that her memoir was coming out.
I'm glad I watched the 20/20 episode of Suzy and her husband before I read this, because then I could picture him. I wish this memoir had pictures. No pictures?! Dey Street/William Morrow publisher usually has great pictures in their celebrity memoirs. Come on, why no pictures? I know that people can google for pictures but a celebrity memoir really should have a spread of pics. Still, that doesn't bring down the rating for me.
Her husband Mark is in this a lot. He loves her so much that he has stayed with her. (Yay, cheers for Suzy!). I loved all the parts of this memoir, the competitive runnning, the modeling (she could've been a professional model but she wanted to win so much that she chose running), the good times of her marriage, her depression and then mania when she became a call girl. She blames Zoloft for taking her mania to super high levels. Really, she didn't seem in her right mind. She would have so much fun with a client, that she would gush to her husband about it, even though he hated hearing about it. You'd think that after a fun "appointment" the high would fade and she'd have low self-esteem, but no, she just wanted more, more, more. She wanted to be the best, just like when she was a professional runner. It's interesting.
Suzy's brother had committed suicide, so I think her husband was justifying her behavior with thoughts like at least this is keeping her from being suicidal. Strange behavior though, for a married woman of 20 years who also had a daughter at home. Strange also that after her first Olympics, she had a breast reduction to look more like a runner! She was showing crazy even back then.
I'm glad I watched the 20/20 episode of Suzy and her husband before I read this, because then I could picture him. I wish this memoir had pictures. No pictures?! Dey Street/William Morrow publisher usually has great pictures in their celebrity memoirs. Come on, why no pictures? I know that people can google for pictures but a celebrity memoir really should have a spread of pics. Still, that doesn't bring down the rating for me.
Her husband Mark is in this a lot. He loves her so much that he has stayed with her. (Yay, cheers for Suzy!). I loved all the parts of this memoir, the competitive runnning, the modeling (she could've been a professional model but she wanted to win so much that she chose running), the good times of her marriage, her depression and then mania when she became a call girl. She blames Zoloft for taking her mania to super high levels. Really, she didn't seem in her right mind. She would have so much fun with a client, that she would gush to her husband about it, even though he hated hearing about it. You'd think that after a fun "appointment" the high would fade and she'd have low self-esteem, but no, she just wanted more, more, more. She wanted to be the best, just like when she was a professional runner. It's interesting.
Suzy's brother had committed suicide, so I think her husband was justifying her behavior with thoughts like at least this is keeping her from being suicidal. Strange behavior though, for a married woman of 20 years who also had a daughter at home. Strange also that after her first Olympics, she had a breast reduction to look more like a runner! She was showing crazy even back then.