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Size zero : my life as a disappearing model / Victoire Dauxerre ; with Valérie Péronnet ; translated from the French by Andy Bliss.

by Dauxerre, Victoire.

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746.92092 D244s

Dauxerre, Victoire.

Teenage models -- France -- Biography.

Models (Persons) -- France -- Biography.

Anorexia -- Patients -- France -- Biography

9780008220488 (hc.)

9780008220495 (pbk.)

246 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations ; 22 cm

Translated from the French.

A memoir of a brief career as a top model and a brutally honest account of what goes on behind the scenes in a fascinating, closed industry. Scouted in the street by the Elite Agency 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. A unflinching, painful expose of the uglier face of fashion, her testimony is the 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. Victoire Maçon Dauxerre is now an actress living in London, England.

Autobiographies.

Péronnet, Valérie.

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