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April
Before reading Unbearable Lightness all I knew about Portia De Rossi was that she used to be one of the skinny women on Ally McBeal and is married to Ellen De Generes. Somewhere in the back of my mind I knew she had battled an eating disorder, but this book gave me greater insight to [...]
23
April
As the mother of two daughters Unbearable Lightness scares the hell out of me. Unbearable Lightness is an intense account of Portia de Rossi’s battle with anorexia and bulimia and it takes you deep into a dark place. The book provides a rare and intimate look into the mind of a beautiful, intelligent girl who simply [...]
23
April
300 calories a day – that’s the equivalent of one cup of cereal, a banana, and a cup of black coffee. And that’s what actress Portia de Rossi lived on during a period in her twenties when she was gripped by powerful eating disorder that left her at 37 kilograms. I was keen to read [...]
19
April
Portia De Rossi’s Unbearable Lightness is a book that I didn’t want to put down after I started reading it. It’s hard to tell whether it is the subject matter, her raw truthful storytelling of events from her own life, or her accessible writing store that made this the case. I believe it was a [...]
18
April
Shared experiences are one of the greatest things about the human condition. No matter how troubled you are and how alone you feel, there is someone willing to listen, to care, to help, to remind you that you are never truly alone. Help might come in the most unlikely of places at the most unlikely [...]
18
April
Why are celebrity magazines such a guilty pleasure? Perhaps we want their seemingly unattainable lives to be laid open, or maybe a hint as to how we could get such a life, or do we just want to know that it isn’t all as rosy as it might seem? I remember being horrified by pictures [...]
16
April
If you’d like to read our latest book club title, Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain by Portia de Rossi, you can buy it from all good bookstores for only $14.95 (RRP) or download as an ebook: Buy from Booktopia Buy from Readings Buy from The Nile Download from Apple Download from Amazon [...]
16
April
With such a successful career – and thriving relationship with Ellen DeGeneres – it’s difficult to imagine Portia de Rossi as too troubled. But this horrific work tells the story of a woman trapped by twin demons: eating disorders and fear of revealing her sexuality to the world. It’s harrowing – and ultimately, deeply sad [...]
13
April
Honest. Brutal. Beautifully written. Unbearable Lightness is a heart breaking insight into the workings of a mind held prisoner by an eating disorder. It should be required reading for those of us who have watched someone fall victim to the insidiousness of anorexia, bulimia or any other form of disordered eating. For those of us [...]
10
April
‘Intense … I never wanted to put it down.’ Mia Freedman, author of Mamamia ‘The blunt, pity-free matter-of-factness with which de Rossi shares secrets and lies about her eating disorders and her sexuality makes this forthright confessional story at once shocking and instructional, especially for younger women who may be secretly suffering on their own.’ [...]
