arodplatypus 's review for:

Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain by Portia de Rossi

3.0

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This book was really impressive at the start, detailing her eating disorders, self-loathing, and fear of not being successful. However, the detailed descriptions of her exercise anorexia, bulimia, and binging/purging became painfully episodic and repetitive. The ending felt rushed and unsatisfactory. Her solution to "not restrict any foods" seemed a bit simplistic for a very complicated issue. And her turn to veganism (which restricts all animal by-products and meat) made me wonder if she'd truly recovered as she'd claimed.