Shut Up and Smile : Supermodels and the Dark Side

by Ian Halperin

Thoroughly researched and documented, Shut Up and Smile: Supermodels and the Dark Side is a highly controversial portrait of the fascinating and tragic world of the modelling industry. It is a manic trip through superstardom, payola, sexual slavery, anorexia, racism, alcohol and drugs. Investigative author Ian Halperin went undercover as a model with top agencies in New York, South Beach and Los Angeles. He interviewed over 300 models, designers, agents and insiders connected with the fashion industry. Halperin's probe exposes a disturbing pattern in which young men and women are ill-equipped to handle the dizzying ascension to stardom.

Genres: Nonfiction

209 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1999

About the author

Ian Halperin is a Canadian investigative journalist and writer whose 2009 book, Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson, which was a number one best seller on the New York Times list on July 24, 2009. He is the author or coauthor of nine books, including Celine Dion: Behind the Fairytale, Fire and Rain: The James Taylor Story and Hollywood Undercover. He coauthored Who Killed Kurt Cobain? and Love and Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain with Max Wallace. Halperin has contributed to 60 Minutes II and is a regular correspondent for Court TV.

Reviews

[Just a Girl Fighting Censorship]

Never trust a title with 2 sets of colons, it just seems wrong

[Sharon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Reading this book twenty years after first being published, it did come across as rather dated, but otherwise it was a ok read.