[Size Zero 01] • Size Zero
- Authors
- Dauxerre, Victoire
- Publisher
- William Collins
- Tags
- biography
- ISBN
- 9780008220488
- Date
- 2017-01-13
- Size
- 5.55 MB
- Lang
- en
**A memoir of a brief career as a top model—and the brutally honest account of what goes on behind the scenes in a fascinating, closed industry.**
Scouted in the street when she is 17, Victoire Dauxerre’s story started like a teenager’s dream: within months she was on the catwalks of New York’s major fashion shows, and part of the most 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.
An 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 shows us how to take courage and embrace life.
Written with Valérie Péronnet.