Unbearable Lightness

A Story of Loss and Gain

Portia de Rossi, Portia de Rossi

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English

Bolinda Publishing
01 April 2011

Individual actors & performers; Films, movies & cinema; Autobiography: arts & entertainment; Humanities; Coping with eating disorders

Portia de Rossi weighed only 82 pounds when she collapsed on the set of the Hollywood film in which she was playing her first leading role. This should have been the culmination of all her years of hard work - first as a child model in Australia, then as a cast member of one of the hottest shows on American television. On the outside she was thin and blonde, glamorous and successful. On the inside, she was literally dying.

In this searing, unflinchingly honest book, Portia de Rossi captures the complex emotional truth of what it is like when food, weight, and body image take priority over every other human impulse or action. Even as she rose to fame as a cast member of the hit television shows Ally McBeal and Arrested Development, Portia alternately starved herself and binged, all the while terrified that the truth of her sexuality would be exposed in the tabloids. With the storytelling skills of a great novelist and the eye for detail of a poet, Portia makes transparent as never before the behaviours and emotions of someone living with an eating disorder.

By: Portia de Rossi
Read by: Portia de Rossi
Imprint: Bolinda Publishing
Country of Publication: Australia
Edition: Unabridged
Dimensions: Height: 134mm, Width: 146mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 205g
ISBN: 9781742678429
ISBN 10: 1742678424
Publication Date: 01 April 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: CD-Audio
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain

A cautionary tale, an inspiration, and a triumph. -- Publishers Weekly A stark, well-written portrait of how de Rossi lost control of her life as she became consumed by her struggle for perfection and acceptance. -- The Washington Post Breathtakingly honest, brutal and beautiful. -- Jonathan Safran Foer