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acting
actress memoir
adulthood
alcohol
alcoholic memoir
Author_Selma Blair
autobiography
biography
brave
carrie fisher
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childhood
coming of age
creative industries
cruel intentions
demi moore
disability memoir
emotional memoir
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famous actress
Growing Up
hellboy
Hollywood career
Hollywood memoir
hollywood nonfiction
in pieces
inside out
jewish memoir
legally blonde
living with disability
living with ms
Mean Baby
mental health
metoo memoir
motherhood memoir
ms memoir
Multiple sclerosis
New York Times
New York Times Best Seller
nonfiction
reese witherspoon
rose mcgowan
sally field
Selma Blair
teenage years
wishful drinking
Product details
- ISBN 9780349013862
- Weight: 550g
- Dimensions: 164 x 241mm
- Publication Date: 17 May 2022
- Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER **'Funny and frank, a chance to spend time with a brave and big-hearted woman who's grown up to be not so mean, after all' JENNIFER LARUE, WASHINGTON POST'Grabs you by the collar and says listen to all that I have to say: about love, pain, motherhood, illness, celebrity and the tidal ferocity that pours through all our lives. Read it and be caught in the voice of one of our luminous stars' ESME WEIJUN WANG The first story Selma Blair Beitner ever heard about herself is that she was a mean, mean baby. Although Selma went on to become a celebrated Hollywood actress and model, she could never quite shake the periods of darkness that overtook her, the certainty that there was a great mystery at the heart of her life. Over the course of this beautiful and, at times, shocking memoir, Selma lays bare her addiction to alcohol, her devotion to her brilliant and complicated mother, and the moments she flirted with death. There is violence, love, true friendship, the gift of motherhood and, finally, the simultaneous devastation and surprising salvation of a multiple sclerosis diagnosis. 'A fascinating exploration about the power of prophecy, of labels, and of one woman's determination to defy them all. Blair is a rebel, an artist, and it turns out: a writer' GLENNON DOYLE'I laughed out loud more than I cried' FRANCES RYAN, GUARDIAN
Blair is best known for her roles in Legally Blonde, Cruel Intentions, The Sweetest Thing, and Hellboy. She is also the subject of Introducing, Selma Blair, a documentary directed by Rachel Fleit, about Selma's life with Multiple Sclerosis, which was released earlier this month to extraordinary acclaim. In 2017, Blair was named a Person of the Year by Time Magazine for her courageous contributions as a Silence Breaker.
