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Throughouther career, supermodel and actress Carré Otis hasbeen celebrated for her striking physical beauty—but in this brazenly honestmemoir she revisits the ugliest parts of her past to reveal the events thatultimately brought her to strive for, and champion, the kind of beauty that canonly be found within. In Beauty Disrupted Carrédetails the triumphs and challenges of her career in modeling, her rise to fameon the covers of Elle, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and MarieClaire, her battle against eating disorders and drug addiction, and herinfamous marriage to Mickey Rourke. BeautyDisrupted is her inspiring and personal memoir, a story of difficultlessons learned and inner beauty rediscovered, by a woman famous the worldover—not only for her face but, now, for her fighter’s spirit.

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Teen runaway, supermodel, and actress Carré Otis found herself in the public eye from a very tender age. By the time she was twenty, millions of people had already gazed at provocative images of her in magazine and billboard ads from Guess and Calvin Klein, on the pages of Playboy and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, and on posters for the controversial film Wild Orchid, with her soon-to-be husband Mickey Rourke. Their troubled marriage was widely reported in the media, as were Carré's struggles with drugs and a particularly brutal eating disorder. But simply because we've seen someone naked on the page or exposed on the screen or in the tabloids doesn't mean we know who that person really is.

In Beauty, Disrupted, Carré Otis confronts her complex past fearlessly and with unrelenting candor. The result is a narrative of success, despair, and ultimate triumph over sexual exploitation and our cultural obsession with appearance—a narrative of beauty disrupted, reclaimed, and made more radiant through self-acceptance, inner peace, and the love of family.

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As a supermodel, Carré Otis has appeared on the covers of Vogue, Elle, Harper's Bazaar, Glamour, and Cosmopolitan, and has worked with many of the world's greatest fashion photographers. She has appeared on nationally televised programs, offering her unique insight into the business of beauty and the high price it demands. Carré lives in Colorado with her husband and two daughters.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ It Books (Oct. 23 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 324 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0062024469
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0062024466
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 371 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 22.1 x 13.72 x 2.29 cm

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Great Book

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It was nice to finally hear her side of things with regard to her relationship to Mickey Rourke now it makes sense why it didn't work.
Glad she got her health, life back. Good for her.

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Isamajo

Un livre fascinant, rempli de rebondissements

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Je voulais comprendre l'histoire de Carré Otis et Mickey Rourke. Ce livre m'a permis de réaliser qu'il est possible de se sortir d'une relation toxique même si l'amour est encore au rendez-vous ...

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deborah passari

good book

Reviewed in Canada on August 9, 2019

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I really enjoyed this book.

Reviewed in Canada on April 17, 2016

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Loved this novel. I read it in 3 days. It was a wonderful story about Carre and how she turned her life around.

Reviewed in Canada on November 21, 2012

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Great inside look into showbusiness world: Movies and fashion. Very candid storytelling. Great lesson to be learned emotionally dependant people.

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charlie1212

Beauty, Disrupted: A Memoir

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Through reading Carre Otis' book. Carre is amazing, Mickey looks terrible. I could say more. It makes me sad. Beauty, Disrupted: A Memoir

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Karen Super Small

I was impressed!

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I basically wanted to get the book to read about Carre’s and Mick’s relationship. Yes the book involves that, but the book is so much more. Carre Otis is a true survivor. I’m so happy I read this book and found out so much more about her. She went through a life of a true trauma and turned that into a positive healing journey. Not an easy one by all means but gives other people Hope who have experience similar situations. I highly recommend this book.

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Lisa M

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Carre's story is similar in a lot of ways to those of many models. A troubled teen, who left home at a young age and started in the world of modeling, only to fall victim to abuse of many kinds; drugs, sex, eating disorders. Not to say that all models fall into this trap, but many do and Carre' wasn't afraid to come forward and reveal her private matters to the world. I had known Carre' mainly for her role in the movie WILD ORCHID and of course as the former wife of actor Mickey Rourke. I had also read the tabloid stories of abuse, both at the hands of Rourke and also her own with drugs and eating disorders, but of course, the tabloids only tell part of the story.
In Beauty, Disrupted, Carre' reveals things in a way I can only explain as raw honesty, laying her life bare for us. I know it must always be very emotional for anyone to open up themselves to the public in a way that can make the open for criticism, but
also, in some ways, ridicule. I had read some harsh reviews of this book, but was reading it with an open mind, letting myself decide what to take away from it.
I had always loved Mickey Rourke as an actor, from back in the movies Rumble Fish and 91/2 Weeks to his most recent award-winning performance in The Wrestler. With that in mind, I was expecting that reading about his rocky relationship with Carre' would be difficult, but didn't know just how much so-until that part of the book began. To say their marriage was "difficult" is quite an understatement. More of their marriage was spend apart than together and I can't begin to imagine how hard the revelations in this memoir were for both of them. But Carre' eventually moved forward and took control of her own life enough to mend fences with not only Rourke, but her family, which she was astranged from for most her life up until recently.
Her story was very engrossing: and at times very sad-sometimes so sad, I found myself stopping to take it all in. It is always sad to read such tales, especially when it is coming from the author's firsthand experience. I am certainly glad Carre' has finally come to have a happy life and a family of her own. I really enjoyed this book and thank Carre' Otis for sharing her personal journey with us.

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Naomi

Three stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 20, 2012

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I've recently finished the biograpy Beauty, Disrupted: A Memoir by Carre Otis. To be honest I really don't know much about her or her modelling career, I mostly checked it out because people were saying it gave a lot of insight into her relationship with Mickey Rourke. I'd heard in the unofficial biograpy for Mickey Rourke that she was supposedly the love of Mickey's life and he never got over losing her, yet you didn't get much love from him at all in Carre's account which surprised me. He seemed taken with her at first and they had an intense relationship, but very soon after the filming of Wild Orchid wraps up she talks about having to beg him to spend any time with her, he basically left her isolated in a house by herself for ages and he was constantly sleeping around with a string of women. The two of them even had separate bedrooms and, towards the end of their relationship, she tells us they hadn't made love in a year

The only time he seemed to show much passion for her was when she was threating to leave him (he actually holds a gun to her head at one point), or when he was threatening the people who worked with her and threatening her friends. He even tapped all the phones in the house and had all these people following her around to keep an eye on her, warning her to "be a good girl" ick. She doesn't really dwell on the domestic violence as much, you get the feeling it was definitely the mental side of it that she struggled with more, feeling trapped and isolated when he orders her to turn down jobs and concentrate fully on him

Regarding the rest of the book, I must admit that the chapters on her spiritual side didn't really interest me much, just not my thing I suppose. But I found myself genuinally moved by her stories of her early entry into the modelling world, it really is a much more sordid place than I had ever realised. I gave the book three stars because, even though I originally only brought it to read the dirt on Mickey, the rest of her story still mostly grabbed me and was interesting to read about

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Jill Johnson

Riveting Read!

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Sexual abuse; drug abuse; self-esteem issues; eating disorders; reckless behavior; burnout; a high-profile, dysfunctional (to put it lightly) marriage--Carre Otis's memoir has all the ingredients of the cliche supermodel tale, but her poignant, well-scribed (with Hugh Schwyzer) story exposes fresh, shocking details about the modeling industry. Even before she wobbles, scantily-clad, down a catwalk made of tables in a bar, trying to make her way as a teen runaway, Carre had suffered a scarred girlhood. By 20, she had endured so much abuse that the reader can hardly bare it. I wanted to reach back in time and snatch her from the thieves of her youth (her agent Gerald Marie, her boyfriend/husband Mickey Rourke, among others) and hug her until her tears dried--which may have taken years.

Fortunately--and amazingly--Carre dug herself out of the abysmal crater she wedged herself into during her teens and 20s and hugged herself better, with the help of Buddhism and intense introspection. For two-thirds of the book, it's hard to believe this story could have a happy ending, but it does.
"There was an aspect of wanting to set the record straight, but there was also the need to tell this tale for those young women yet to fulfill their own journeys," writes Otis. "Mine is every woman's story but for a few differences. It's the story of our right to say no, to not be silenced, to tell things like they are and, of course, to move on in the sweetest victory of forgiveness..."

It is a story for every young woman to read and learn from. It's also a story that may scare any aspiring model far, far away from the catwalks! See my website for some reassurance that girls can have a positive experience in the modeling world and find some amazing people there: [...] modelingmentor.com

--Jill Johnson

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