- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster (Sep 8 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 143910123X
- ISBN-13: 978-1439101230
- Product Dimensions: 23.9 x 15.5 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 408 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #177,992 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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About the Author
Crystal Renn is the leading plus-size model in America. At twenty-two years of age, she has appeared in four international editions of Vogue; starred in a Dolce & Gabbana ad campaign; served as the final model in Jean-Paul Gaultier’s Spring pret-a-porter show in a diaphanous, flower-strewn gown that Gaultier designed specifically for her curvaceous figure; was the cover girl on an international edition of Harper's Bazaar; appeared on The Tyra Banks Show, The View and The Oprah Winfrey Show; and has been photographed by Steven Meisel, Ellen von Unwerth, Steven Meisel, Ruven Afanador and Patrick Demarchelier. Renn lives in Brooklyn.
Marjorie Ingall is a contributing writer at Self magazine and a columnist for The Forward. She has written for many other magazines, including The New York Times, Glamour, Redbook, Seventeen, Ms., Food & Wine, Wired, and the late, lamented Sassy, where she was the senior writer and health editor. At Sassy, she won several awards for health and social issues coverage. She is the author of The Field Guild to North American Males, the co-author of a sex-ed book for teenagers, Smart Sex and a former writer/producer at the Oxygen TV network.
Marjorie Ingall is a contributing writer at Self magazine and a columnist for The Forward. She has written for many other magazines, including The New York Times, Glamour, Redbook, Seventeen, Ms., Food & Wine, Wired, and the late, lamented Sassy, where she was the senior writer and health editor. At Sassy, she won several awards for health and social issues coverage. She is the author of The Field Guild to North American Males, the co-author of a sex-ed book for teenagers, Smart Sex and a former writer/producer at the Oxygen TV network.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Eating disorder focused,
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This review is from: Hungry: A Young Model's Story of Appetite, Ambition, and the Ultimate Embrace of Curves (Paperback)
I was looking forward to reading more about Renn's modeling experience and the fashion world in general, while touching on eating disorder prevalence in the industry. Instead, I found the book to have a very heavy focus on eating disorders while the modeling/fashion industry storyline was lacking. Overall I got bored about 70% of the way through and I was just expecting a lot more. Still an ok read overall, but I was disappointed.
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Hungry for Acceptance,
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This review is from: Hungry: A Young Model's Story of Appetite, Ambition, and the Ultimate Embrace of Curves (Paperback)
The book details the struggle of a beautiful, young model who battles weight gain and the desire to be stick-thin in order to remain in the modelling industry. When she is advised she could be a plus-size model (at 5'9" and 130 pounds) she is devastated and begins a starvation diet to lose weight. She does on a continual basis but even then many agents and clients in the industry remain critical of various body parts, seeking a perfection that doesn't exist in any woman. It's a disturbing and genuine look into the modelling world by a young woman who learns self-acceptance after paying a price.
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inspiring and encouraging,
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This review is from: Hungry: A Young Model's Story of Appetite, Ambition and the Ultimate Embrace of Curves (Hardcover)
This book was a treat in more ways than one. Intelligent, thought provoking and very well written.
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