{"id":9196,"date":"2010-11-12T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T12:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=9196"},"modified":"2010-11-08T09:32:39","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T15:32:39","slug":"unbearable-lightness-by-portia-de-rossi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/unbearable-lightness-by-portia-de-rossi\/","title":{"rendered":"Unbearable Lightness by Portia de Rossi"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>As a big fan of Arrested Development<\/a><\/em><\/strong> and actress Portia de Rossi, I had to be first to check out her new book, Unbearable Lightness<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Though de Rossi is a very talented comedic actress, this book is a truly sad story:\u00a0 it details the eating disorder she suffered from since the age of 12 when she\u00a0began her modeling career.\u00a0 Starting with a yo-yo diet that included binging and purging before photo shoots and acting jobs, de Rossi eventually became severely anorexic, eating less than 300 calories a day in order to lose weight and maintain her career.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Despite the protests of her family and the fact that she at one time weighed only 82 pounds, de Rossi only saw herself as a chubby girl with big thighs and rolls on her stomach.<\/p>\n

This book was extremely shocking and really opens your eyes to what the mindset of an anorexic person is really like.\u00a0De Rossi does a great job of letting the reader really get inside her head to understand why she treated her body the way she did.\u00a0 The pressures of staying thin in order to get\u00a0jobs and being a closeted lesbian in an industry that didn’t accept\u00a0gay actors\u00a0really exacerbated her condition and forced her into a downward spiral of self-loathing.\u00a0 This book is also incredibly eye-opening into Hollywood life.\u00a0 Knowing how common the pressures de Rossi faced are, I can’t say I ever want to look at another fashion magazine again.\u00a0 Though\u00a0she came out of this ordeal alive and has a very happy life with wife Ellen Degeneres, this isn’t the case for everyone who goes through anorexia and bulimia.\u00a0 Not only is this book very informative, it’s also an emotional and inspirational story\u00a0about overcoming your personal demons, and \u00a0I highly recommend it to anyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a big fan of Arrested Development and actress Portia de Rossi, I had to be first to check out her new book, Unbearable Lightness.\u00a0 Though de Rossi is a very talented comedic actress, this book is a truly sad story:\u00a0 it details the eating disorder she suffered from since[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,1,8],"tags":[1409,1410,1411,819,818],"class_list":["post-9196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reference","category-staff-picks","tag-anorexia","tag-bulimia","tag-eating-disorders","tag-hollywood","tag-movie-stars"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-2ok","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9196"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9318,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9196\/revisions\/9318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}