Bibliograph

Size zero, how I survived my life as a model, Victoire Dauxerre ; English translation, Andy Bliss

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Label

Size zero, how I survived my life as a model, Victoire Dauxerre ; English translation, Andy Bliss

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

platesillustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Size zero

Responsibility statement

Victoire Dauxerre ; English translation, Andy Bliss

Sub title

how I survived my life as a model

Summary

Scouted in the street when she is seventeen, Victoire Dauxerre's story started like a teenager's dream: within months she was on the catwalks of New York's fashion shows and part of the the select circle of in-demand supermodels in the world. But when fashion executives and photographers began to pressure her about her weight, forcing her to become ever thinner, Victoire's fantasy came at a cost. Food was now her enemy and soon, living on only three apples a day and Diet Coke galore, Victoire became anorexic. A unflinching, painful expose of the uglier face of fashion, her testimony is a shocking example of how our culture's mechanisms of anorexia and bulimia can push a young woman to the point of suicide. It is the story of a survivor whose fight against poisonous illness and body image portrays how to take courage and embrace life

Target audience

adult

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