lifeinpoetry 's review for:

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

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For the first half I kept thinking this was so shallow. The focus was mainly on dissecting the appearance of herself and others, on trying to lose weight pre-ED and constantly losing and gaining the same few pounds. Weight loss memoirs are dull until there's disorder.

This is a memoir for the gawker or people like me, turning back and seeing what they escaped from. For someone with an active ED this would be more like a how-to, an explicit guide to nurturing their ED.

I both love and hate memoirs like this. I loved them wholly when I was ill.