Paint Me Beautiful: a Tale of Anorexia, a Love Story, and the Rebirth of Claire Simone
by C.M. Stunich
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17668900-paint-me-beautiful
18-year-old Claire is dying to be a
model. She is 6 foot tall, wears size 2 jeans and still thinks she is
fat. She calls her size 10 sister, the 'fat sister'. Claire is
obsessed with body image, with being perfect, with becoming famous
and being seen. She is very shallow and the story unflinchingly
portrays her downward spiral. It is so sad that someone could want
something so bad that they would be willing to slowly starve to death
to reach their goal. It is a very uncomfortable subject: eating
disorder, body
dysmorphic disorder, the fashion industry and dying to be thin. It
seems to me that at 18, Claire is a little old to be starting out, I
have heard of girls who break out in the fashion industry at 12.
Claire meets Emmett
and he is her salvation. “I
feel like I'm suffocating, like I can get all the air I need to
breathe from his lips alone.”
This book is so amazingly well written and so sad. Then it ends.
Claire's story of redemption is to be continued. 5 stars.
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