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A review by empressofbookingham
I'm the One That I Want by Margaret Cho
5.0
“I never would have known about love if I hadn't tried for once to love myself.”
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I vibed with this book that I kept cheering her on every time she fell down and got back up. Thank God I didn't know the book is classified more on the humor side because I had more aha moments than ha ha moments. Oh she was funny don't get me wrong but that did not take away from the naked truth of her life.
Takes courage to lay yourself bare to the world like this. This is what did have me in awe about the book. 'I Am The One I Want' charts the raw, harrowing journey Margaret Cho undertook from a place where she could barely look at herself in the mirror to wanting and loving herself so ferociously healing was the effect.
Margaret Cho goes in deep on the makings of her childhood life, her addiction to substances, her self hatred and destructive behaviors, sex, chasing her dreams, obsession with men, dieting...
I deeply related to the story because I too have been picked on because of my name, skin color, body stature and the shocking not so shocking part from people of the same color.
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I vibed with this book that I kept cheering her on every time she fell down and got back up. Thank God I didn't know the book is classified more on the humor side because I had more aha moments than ha ha moments. Oh she was funny don't get me wrong but that did not take away from the naked truth of her life.
Takes courage to lay yourself bare to the world like this. This is what did have me in awe about the book. 'I Am The One I Want' charts the raw, harrowing journey Margaret Cho undertook from a place where she could barely look at herself in the mirror to wanting and loving herself so ferociously healing was the effect.
Margaret Cho goes in deep on the makings of her childhood life, her addiction to substances, her self hatred and destructive behaviors, sex, chasing her dreams, obsession with men, dieting...
I deeply related to the story because I too have been picked on because of my name, skin color, body stature and the shocking not so shocking part from people of the same color.