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Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:“Val Frankel is a woman of amazing insight. . . . Read this, weep, and heal.” Stacy London, cohost of What Not to Wear Youve heard the phrase “the mirror is not your friend.” For Valerie Frankel, the mirror was so much more than “not a friend.” It was the mean girl who stole her lunch money, bitch-slapped her in the ladies room, and cut the hair off her Barbie. If youre like 99.9 percent of women, the war you wage with yourself over your body image begins at the ripe age of eight, and the skirmishes are fought for the next eight decades. Sometimes you dont even know when youve won. (How many of us have taken out a photo from high school and thought, “Hey! I looked greatwhy didnt I know it?”) This book is for anyone who has spent most of her life onor thinking about being ona diet. Its for anyone who ever wished for candlelight in dressing rooms. Its for anyone who has ever owned a pair of “fat pants.” In short, this book is for anyone who ever felt good or bad about themselves based on how they look. Valerie Frankel, like most women, has spent most of her conscious life on a diet, thinking about a diet, ignoring a diet, or failing on a diet. At age eleven, her mother put Val on her first weight-loss program. As a teen, she was enrolled in Weight Watchers (for which she invented creative ditching methods). As a young woman, her world felt right only when she was able to zip a certain pair of jeans. Not wanting to pass this legacy on to her own daughters, Valerie set out to cleanse herself of her obsession. Thin Is the New Happy is the true story of one womans quest to exorcise her bad body-image demons, to uncover the truths behind what put them there, and to learn how to truly love herself. Its a poignant, hilarious, and all-out honest account of one womans struggle with body imagethe filter through which shes always seen the worldand the way she ultimately overcame it. Review:"Prolific author Frankel (most recently, I Take This Man) was only 11 when her mother put her on a diet. She went from 100 to 88 pounds in six weeks, making her mother ecstatic, although she gained back four pounds right away. Frankel learned a basic lesson: she could enjoy eating or 'have approval,' but not both. Although she blamed her mother's 'fatphobia' for her unhappy childhood, from middle school on her peers were her cruelest tormenters. As she got older, her 'bad body image' translated to 'anorgasmia'; research shows that women who feel unattractive often develop sexual dysfunction. Later, working at Mademoiselle, where so many co-workers had eating disorders, she realized that an obsession with diet was one way of avoiding life's thornier issues. In her 40s, Frankel decided to jettison all the emotional baggage she was carrying about her weight, to free herself, finally, from dieting. After hiring a photographer to shoot a portfolio of her nude, having a friend help her find her personal style in clothing and coming to terms with her husband and her mother over fat issues, Frankel finally got rid of her body-image negativity. (Sept.)" Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.) Synopsis:Frankel, like most women, has endured years of dieting, starvation, and total preoccupation with her weight. Not wanting to pass this legacy onto her own daughters, she set out to cleanse herself of these painful and damaging cycles, which she chronicles in this hilarious, unflinching memoir.
Synopsis:Youve heard the phrase “the mirror is not your friend.” For Valerie Frankel, the mirror was so much more than “not a friend.” It was the mean girl who stole her lunch money, bitch-slapped her in the ladies room, and cut the hair off her Barbie. Like most women, Valerie spent most of her conscious life on a diet, thinking about a diet, ignoring a diet, or failing on a diet. At age eleven, her mother put Val on her first weight-loss program. As a teen, she was enrolled in Weight Watchers (for which she invented creative ditching methods). As a young woman, her world felt right only when she was able to zip a certain pair of jeans. Not wanting to pass this legacy on to her own daughters, Valerie set out to cleanse herself of her obsession. Thin Is the New Happy is the true story of one womans quest to exorcise her bad body-image demons, to uncover the truths behind what put them there, and to learn how to truly love herself. About the AuthorValerie Frankel has been an editor for Mademoiselle magazine and is a contributor to Self, Good Housekeeping, and Parenting magazines. She has written fourteen novels. This is her first memoir. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, two daughters, and three cats. Visit www.valeriefrankel.com. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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