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Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain

Portia de Rossi

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May 17, 2011 Tanya rated it liked it

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"Gaining Weight is a critical time. The anorexic mind doesn't just magically go away when weight is gained-it gets more active."

"Being sick allows you to check out of life. Getting well again means you have to check back in. It's absolutely crucial that you are ready to check back into life because you feel as though something has hnged from the time before you were sick. Whatever it was that made you feel insecure, less than, or pressured to live an a way that was uncomfortable to you has to c ...more

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Aug 05, 2011 Sera rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audio, library, biography-memoir

I realized that people don't write their memoirs or autobiography if they haven't triumphed over adversity, but that's one of the primary reasons that I enjoy reading these types of books.

Portia de Rossi writes a very interesting, if at not times, distressing, novel about her battles with food and coming to terms with her sexuality. Remember how shocked everyone was to find that she was gay because she did such a good job of hiding it? Nevertheless, de Rossi does a nice job of working through al ...more

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