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I Do It with the Lights On: And 10 More Discoveries on the Road to a Blissfully Shame-Free Life
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Include books by the same authorWake Up, I'm Fat!
Camryn Manheim · 289 pages
Actress Camryn Manheim discusses how being fat has affected her life, how she learned to accept herself, and how she is helping other plus-sized women increase their self-confidence.
Fat Girl Walking: Sex, Food, Love, and Being Comfortable in Your Skin...Every Inch of It
Brittany Gibbons · 240 pages
"I hope you buy 'Fat Girl Walking' because I want to start a conversation. Or continue a conversation, one I inadvertently started a while ago when I took my clothes off on a stage in front of 700 people. A lot of people thought I was awesome for doing that. A lot of others thought a size 18 woman had absolutely no business showing off her body. Unfortunately for them, I've made it my personal mis
Let's Just Say It Wasn't Pretty
Diane Keaton · 196 pages
The Academy Award-winning film star and best-selling author of Then Again describes the ups and downs of living in a beauty-obsessed world, recounting stories about a makeup artist's embarrassing advice, her trip to Victoria's Secret with her teen daughter and more.
Hungry: A Young Model's Story of Appetite, Ambition, and the Ultimate Embrace of Curves
Crystal Renn · 256 pages
Such a Pretty Fat: One Narcissist's Quest to Discover If Her Life Makes Her Ass Look Big, or Why Pie Is Not the Answer
Jen Lancaster · 379 pages
Unfortunately, being overweight isn't simply a societal issue that can be fixed with a dose healthy of positive self-esteem. It's a health matter, and on the eve of her fortieth year, Lancaster learns to make changes. Because what good is finally being able to afford a pedicure if you lose a foot to adult onset diabetes?
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
Roxane Gay · 320 pages
“I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. . . . I was trapped in my body, one that I barely recognized or understood, but at least I was safe.” In her phenomenally popular essays and long-running Tumblr blog, Roxa
A New Model: What Confidence, Beauty, and Power Really Look Like
Ashley Graham, Rebecca Paley · 198 pages
"One of the most outspoken voices gracing the cover of magazines today encourages women to be their most confident selves, recognize their personal beauty, and reach for their highest dreams in this wise, warm, and inspiring memoir. Voluptuous beauty Ashley Graham has been modeling professionally since the age of thirteen. Discovered at a shopping mall in Nebraska, her stunning face and sexy curve
Through Thick and Thin: My Autobiography
Gok Wan · 360 pages
**Autobiography, Fashion:** With his infectious energy and charisma, **Gok Wan has an incredible gift of making women feel more confident within themselves** - but it's not until you read his own inspirational story that you find out where he got that gift from. Gok grew up on a Leicester housing estate, with a loving family who ran a Chinese restaurant. For his parents, food meant love - and
Moose: A Memoir of Fat Camp
Stephanie Klein · 310 pages
With her signature acerbic wit and captivating insight, the author of the wildly popular Straight Up and Dirty offers a powerful and beautifully stark portrait of adolescenceWhile she is pregnant with twins, one sentence uttered by her doctor sends Stephanie Klein reeling: "You need to gain fifty pounds." Instantly, an adolescence filled with insecurity and embarrassment comes flooding back. Thoug
The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl
Shauna Reid · 400 pages
A hilarious and heartwarming tale of a real-life superhero who battled the bulge and won.In January 2001 Shauna Reid was twenty-three years old and twenty-five stone. Determined to turn her life around, she created the hugely successful weblog The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl and, hiding behind her Lycra-clad roly-poly alter-ego, her transformation from couch potato to svelte goddess began. Toda
How to Be a Woman
Caitlin Moran · 313 pages
Though they have the vote and the Pill and haven't been burned as witches since 1727, life isn't exactly a stroll down the catwalk for modern women. They are beset by uncertainties and questions: Why are they supposed to get Brazilians? Why do bras hurt? Why the incessant talk about babies? And do men secretly hate them? Caitlin Moran interweaves provocative observations on women's lives with l
Half-Assed: A Weight-Loss Memoir
Jennette Fulda · 300 pages
Autobiography of a Face
Lucy Grealy · 230 pages
Lucy Grealy's ruthless self-examination, rich fantasy life, and great derring-do inform this powerful memoir about the premium we put on beauty and on a woman's face in particular. It took Lucy twenty years of living with a distorted self-image and more than thirty reconstructive procedures before she could come to terms with her appearance after childhood surgery left her jaw disfigured. As a you
Bare Bones: I'm Not Lonely If You're Reading This Book
Bobby Bones · 211 pages
Growing up poor in Mountain Pine, Arkansas, with a young, addicted mom, Bobby Estell fell in love with country music. Abandoned by his father at the age of five, Bobby saw the radio as his way out--a dream that came true in college when he went on air at the Henderson State University campus station broadcasting as Bobby Bones, while simultaneously starting The Bobby Bones Show at 105.9 KLAZ. Bobb
Taking the Lead: Lessons from a Life in Motion
Derek Hough · 189 pages
The only four-time champion of the hit ABC reality show "Dancing with the Stars" shares the lessons he has learned on and off the dance floor that helped him embrace and overcome daily challenges, along with behind-the-scenes stories from the show.
The Truth About Style
Stacy London
"The hilarious, beloved cohost of TLC's What Not to Wear examines the universal obstacles all women--including herself--put in their way With her unique talent for seeing past disastrous wardrobes to the core emotional issues that caused these sartorial crises, style savant Stacy London has transformed not only the looks but also the lives of hundreds of guests who have appeared on What Not to W
Balancing It All: My Story Of Juggling Priorities and Purpose
Candace Cameron Bure · 240 pages
Greenlights
Matthew McConaughey · 304 pages
*Greenlights* is the memoir by actor Matthew McConaughey, structured not as a traditional chronological autobiography, but as a collection of stories, poems, aphorisms, and life lessons—what he calls "approach notes" to living a more satisfying life. The title refers to the "green lights" in life—the moments when things go our way, the successes we achieve, and the opportunities that open up. McC
Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person
Shonda Rhimes · 373 pages
In this poignant, hilarious, and deeply intimate call to arms, Hollywoods most powerful woman, the mega-talented creator of Greys Anatomy and Scandal and executive producer of How to Get Away with Murder reveals how saying YES changed her life and how it can change yours too. On Thanksgiving Day, 2013, Rhimes' sister told her: "You never say yes to anything." This became a wake-up call-- and a c
Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Douglas Kent Hall · 256 pages
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
Lindy West · 272 pages
Coming of age in a culture that demands women be as small, quiet, and compliant as possible--like a porcelain dove that will also have sex with you--writer and humorist Lindy West quickly discovered that she was anything but. From a painfully shy childhood in which she tried, unsuccessfully, to hide her big body and even bigger opinions; to her public war with stand-up comedians over rape jo
Every Body Yoga: Let Go of Fear. Get On the Mat. Love Your Body.
Jessamyn Stanley · 231 pages
"Every Body Yoga is a book of inspiration for beginners of all shapes and sizes: If Jessamyn could transcend these emotional and physical barriers, so can we. It's a book for readers already doing yoga, looking to refresh their practice or find new ways to stay motivated. It's a how-to book: Here are easy-to-follow directions to 50 basic yoga poses and 10 sequences to practice at home, all photogr