- 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: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #178,369 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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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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4.3 out of 5 stars (55 customer reviews) 26 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
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Smart, Funny, Moving, Fabulous!,
By Gayle Forman - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Hungry: A Young Model's Story of Appetite, Ambition and the Ultimate Embrace of Curves (Hardcover)
The story of a rise and fall and rise of a twenty-two-year old American model could've been lame in so, so many ways. I mean, what does someone this young have to say? A lot, actually. Hungry is gripping and wise and funny and thoughtful and provocative and also, I felt like I was getting a far truer glimpse of the fashion industry than I ever get from fare like America's Top Model, The Devil Wears Prada, and even Project Runway. It wasn't always such a nice glimpse, either. The ingrained bias (ahem, hatred) of not just large but regular-sized bodies was pretty chilling, and reading this book, it's hard to tell whether that bias flows from fashion to mainstream culture or back or whether it's one anorexic twisted cycle. But, it's a book with a happy ending. Cream rises to the top. So, it turns out, does beauty. When Crystal decides to commit that revolutionary act and eat lunch (a healthy lunch, a salad with fish!) and let her body grow to its natural size, her body blooms, and her career takes off. You'll be cheering as you read her funny, smartly self aware account of her amazing (so far) career and life.
39 of 45 people found the following review helpful:
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What an inspiration!!!,
By A. Jordan - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Hungry: A Young Model's Story of Appetite, Ambition and the Ultimate Embrace of Curves (Hardcover)
I walked by this book at Borders, and immediately felt drawn to it. I picked it up, sat on the floor, and did not move until I finished the whole thing. This young lady has so much wisdom to offer. It was so amazing to read her journey to becoming the confident, self-assured woman she is now. I'm willing to bet that everyone out there has, at one time or another, tried to ram their square-pegged self into a round hole... and it is so overwhelmingly gratifying to read the story of someone who came out the other end of that to live their dreams. What could be more inspirational?? I mean, who hasn't said, "Oh, if only I work hard enough, then I'll be good enough"? Crystal demonstrates that we are good enough as we are.. and once we realize that and embrace it, magic starts to happen. I believe that's the message of this book. I felt like I was walking on air after I left the bookstore. On my way home, I went and bought myself a bouquet of beautiful flowers :-)
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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Required reading for every model wannabe!,
By jeffsdate "jeffsdate" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Hungry: A Young Model's Story of Appetite, Ambition and the Ultimate Embrace of Curves (Hardcover)
Wow. I couldn't put this down. I never tried to be a model, but had a serious eating disorder when I was in high school (30 years ago!), and Renn's book brought it all back to me. It's very well-written and moves along at a good clip, without a lot of padding. I actually would have given it 4.5 stars if I could, because of two things: 1) There could have been more pictures. Crystal talks at length about many shoots for Vogue, etc. without including any photo, and I was dying to know what they looked like. (Maybe it was a copyright issue?)
2) Her newfound self-esteem sometimes gets a little over-the-top near the end ("I'm so sexy, I'm so hot," etc.). But on the whole, I really recommend this. She actually doesn't slam the fashion industry as hard as I thought she would -- in fact, she acknowledges that sometimes people told her she was too thin -- and she mostly blames herself for nearly starving to death. I saw her on one of the morning TV shows and she came across as quite smart as well as gorgeous. Way to go, Crystal! |
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