Beauty, Disrupted: A Memoir - Hardcover

Otis, Carre; Schwyzer, Hugo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0062024450 ISBN 13: 9780062024459

Publisher: ItBooks, 2011

Synopsis

Beauty, Disrupted Throughout her career, supermodel and actress Carre Otis has been celebrated for her physical beauty. This title describes her struggles to overcome sexual exploitation, drug and alcohol addictions, a notorious film role, her infamously abusive marriage to Academy Award Nominee Mickey Rourke, and her submission to a culture obsessed with image. Full description

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From the Back Cover:

Teen runaway, supermodel, and actress Carré Otis found herself in the public eye from a very tender age. Millions of people gazed at provocative images of her in magazine and billboard ads from Guess and Calvin Klein as well as in features on the pages of Playboy and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition. By the time she was twenty, they had also seen her on posters for the controversial film Wild Orchid, with Mickey Rourke. The troubled marriage to Rourke that followed soon thereafter was widely reported on in the media, as were Carré’s struggles with drugs and a particularly brutal eating disorder. But to see someone naked on the page or exposed on the screen and in tabloids doesn’t mean we know who that person really is.

After a decade-long deeply reflective and spiritual journey to discover for herself who she is, Carré found the balance and serenity she sought and is now ready to share her side of the story with the world. She confronts her complex past fearlessly and with unrelenting candor to set the record straight. The result is a narrative of success, despair, and ultimate triumph over sexual exploitation and our cultural obsession with appearance—a narrative of beauty disrupted, reclaimed, and made more radiant through self-acceptance, inner peace, and the love of family.

About the Author:

As a supermodel, Carré Otis has appeared on the covers of Vogue, Elle, Harper's Bazaar, Glamour, and Cosmopolitan, and has worked with many of the world's greatest fashion photographers. She has appeared on nationally televised programs, offering her unique insight into the business of beauty and the high price it demands. Carré lives in Colorado with her husband and two daughters.

About this edition

• Publisher: ItBooks
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0062024450
• ISBN 13: 9780062024459
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336