By 15, she had been taught by her older colleagues the trick of vomiting up most of what she ate to maintain the rail-thin figures art directors favored and the unforgiving camera seemed to love. It’s also a wonderfully fresh meditation on the daily pressures of a successful Hollywood career and what it means for an intelligent, but conflicted young woman to work out her identity in the unforgiving glare of celebrity.ĭe Rossi, who was born Amanda Lee Rogers in a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, began modeling at age 12. The actress Portia de Rossi came perilously close to being a casualty of that delusion, and her compellingly honest memoir, “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain,” is a candid account of the toll a tyrannical body image can exact. One that still contaminates our body-obsessed popular culture is the Duchess of Windsor’s notorious admonition that no woman can ever be “too rich or too thin.”Īs the age of anorexia has succeeded the age of anxiety - or perhaps simply compounded it - we’ve learned just how wrong the duchess really was. Some remarks, like radioactive elements, have a lingering half-life that allows them to poison one generation after another.
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