![]() I just thought of them as something self inflicted and silly that people could just get over if they really wanted to. ![]() There was a time, back in my teens and early twenties when I didn't take the idea of eating disorders at all seriously. I still don't really, since thankfully I have never lived that nightmare but I know more than I did before reading this book. Apparently De Rossi is one of those people.īefore reading this book I didn't know much about eating disorders. It stands to reason, now that I think about it, that some of the many people in show business are really just more comfortable in an old Iggy and the Stooges shirt, ripped jeans and Doc Martens. For example I had always thought, insofar as I bothered to think about them at all, that all actresses and models were interested in fashion, makeup and glamour. This book relieved me of some silly assumptions. Unbearable Lightness is a memoir of the difficult journey De Rossi faced to come to terms with being a lesbian, and with her natural weight. ![]() But behind the facade was a terribly insecure woman, hiding her true sexuality and hating her body, which she always saw as fat. She was young, beautiful, a successful model and actress with a recurring role on a hit tv show. ![]()
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