Size zero My life as a disappearing model
Book - 2017
A memoir of a brief career as a top model - and the brutally honest account of what goes on behind the scenes in a fascinating, closed industry. Scouted in the street when she is 17, Victoire Dauxerre's story started like a teenager's dream: within months she was on the catwalks of New York's major fashion shows, and part of the most select circle of in-demand supermodels in the world. But when fashion executives and photographers began to pressure her about her weight, forcing her to become ever thinner, Victoire's fantasy came at a cost. Food was now her enemy, and soon, living on only three apples a day and Diet Coke galore, Victoire became anorexic. A unflinching, painful expose of the uglier face of fashion, her tes...timony is the a shocking example of how our culture's mechanisms of anorexia and bulimia can push a young woman to the point of suicide. It is the story of a survivor whose fight against poisonous illness and body image shows us how to take courage, and embrace life.
- Subjects
- Genres
- Autobiographies
- Published
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London :
William Collins, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
2017.
- Language
- English
French - Main Author
- Other Authors
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- Physical Description
- 246 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations ; 22 cm
- ISBN
- 9780008220495