Unbearable Lightness

Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain | Portia de Rossi

Serious trigger warning with this book: eating disorders.

This is the story of Portia De Rossi‘s battle with anorexia and how it almost destroyed her life. Very moving and relatable as someone who also struggled with disordered eating.

An interesting read but definitely triggering so read with caution.

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tpixie Here‘s another very good thought provoking book about eating disorders ( with triggers)

The Girls at 17 Swann Street

Kitta @tpixie sounds good! I‘ll have to check it out. Rated very highly by littens I see at 92%! 2y

tpixie @Kitta it is moving. 2y

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rather_be_reading

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Half way done w this one. Its heartbreaking

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Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain | Portia de Rossi

Book 74 of 2020
#audiobook #scribd

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Heatherfeather

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My heart hurts. Mostly because I recognize so much of her thinking....

Megabooks Fantastic book! 5y

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Cinfhen

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#MayMovieMagic #WeveOnlyJustBegun Karen Carpenter was blessed with the most angelic voice yet she struggled with an eating disorder that effects so many #AcrossTheUniverse 😔I‘ve been meaning to read the tagged book, maybe for my upcoming #BookFitnessChallenge I‘ll try the audio 🎧 70 million people “struggle” with their weight in some way, that‘s a lot of anguish we need to think about 😢 I recognize my own foolish battle with body image.

wanderinglynn, RohitSawant, Eggs

Megabooks 🙋🏻‍♀️ have a problem with body image too! Rainbow Rowell always makes me feel better! 6y

Centique My friend has just been diagnosed as anorexic in her 40s. 🙁 Hoping she‘ll get some help now she has a diagnosis, we all worry about her a lot. 6y

Cinfhen It‘s such a terrible illness @Centique my friend‘s 19yr old daughter was diagnosed at 15. It‘s so painful to watch. I feel like 70 million is a low number @Megabooks EVERY person I know complains about their weight!!!!! 6y

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Clwojick ITS SOOOOO GOOD! I loved this book! 6y

Megabooks @Cinfhen I am roughly 100 lbs overweight. I actually don‘t want to be below a US size 12, which would be 50 lbs overweight. It‘s a constant battle of self acceptance and health. 6y

Megabooks I went from being a 0-2 in my teens to a 4-6 in college to a 12 in my 20s and early 30s to a 20 now. So I‘ve been on both sides. 6y

Cinfhen It‘s such a constant battle @Megabooks but you‘re right self acceptance is vital!!!! 6y

Emilymdxn I loved this book! I‘ve struggled with disordered eating for years - I was dangerously underweight as a teen then I guess I ‘recovered wrong‘ and found myself in a bingeing cycle for years at uni, making me very ashamed and unhealthy. I‘ve spent last 2 years working hard on finding a medium ground but it‘s hard and I always feel I could slip back. Idk how ppl younger than me manage - they get so many more messages in media than even I did 6y

Emilymdxn My fave book about eating disorders is this one, it‘s written in a very mindful way to try to avoid being triggering for people and talks about a lot of different aspects of eating disorders and how they‘re perceived in culture

How to Disappear Completely: On Modern Anorexia

Cinfhen I‘m 53 and still dealing with my unhealthy relationship with food @Emilymdxn I had bulimia and my body is still coping from the trauma. It lead to so many physical problems. I agree, SM is so rough on our psyche. I‘ve heard about the book you tagged. Stacking 6y

Centique @Emilymdxn thanks for that recc Emily. I think I‘ll get that for my friend. She‘s not finding the counselling she‘s been given very helpful - maybe a book will fill the gaps. 6y

RohitSawant So true about most of us locked in a constant battle when it comes to self-acceptance. I was bullied in school for my weight which compounded the negative self-perception. I still find myself grappling with body image despite following a much healthier lifestyle but I'm learning to be more kind to myself about it. Have you seen To the Bone on Netflix? 6y

RohitSawant It's a well made film starring Lily Collins, about a young girl dealing with anorexia, directed by Marti Noxon who was the Sharp Objects showrunner. 6y

Centique @rohit-sawant much love to you R 💕and boo hiss to the bullies 😡 I‘m going to go look that up, I think I saw that title in there. 6y

Cathythoughts I didn‘t realize she had an eating disorder... so difficult ♥️💔 6y

Cinfhen Kids can be so cruel @rohit-sawant ☹️I‘m definitely going to look for that Netflix film. Thanks for the recommendation 6y

Cinfhen Yes, it was apparently life altering her eating disorder @Cathythoughts I think that‘s why she left show business 6y

Eggs Well done 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻. @Cinfhen 6y

wanderinglynn @Cathythoughts @Cinfhen There‘s a great biopic movie about Karen & her struggles that ultimately ended with her death. It all stemmed from when they started getting successful as The Carpenters. So tragic. 6y

Cathythoughts @wanderinglynn yes very tragic. I see that sometimes great success can trigger deeper issues for people ... 💔 6y

RohitSawant @Centique @Cinfhen Thanks, guys 💕 Glad to signal-boost the film. 6y

Andrew65 I loved her voice, but how sad and tragic! 😢 6y

gradcat I cannot believe that I was unaware of Portia de Rossi‘s book...I‘ve been a fan of hers since “Ally McBeal.” Thanks for educating me! Stacked! (edited) 6y

Kaye 💚 6y

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Smrloomis

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This was both a pick and very tough for me to finish listening to. Maybe it was the fact that it was audio and I couldn‘t just skim some parts, but I found her struggle with her eating disorders to be deeply, deeply sad. And that was so much more of the memoir than I was prepared for. So a pick, but one I am happy to have finished!

Smrloomis I should add that I missed all the publicity around this book when it came out - hence my cluelessness about how intense her suffering was. I loved her in Arrested Development but didn‘t know anything about her personal life really until now. 6y

Zelma I love memoirs on audio because they are more intimate but then again they can be really intense. I prefer listening to people‘s stories though. 6y

Smrloomis @Zelma yes, you‘re definitely right. I can‘t remember the last memoir I listened to like this; it was so intense! Going to have to keep that in mind for future listening/ reading choices. 6y

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Smrloomis

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I just started listening to this and... woah. My fellow Littens, it gets better, right? I mean she falls in love and eventually has a happier life, right? Because the beginning when she describes what it is like to live with her anorexia is so hard to listen to - even as a person who has never had to struggle with this personally!

Sweettartlaura I mean... I don‘t wanna spoil it for ya, but... you know who her partner (spouse, maybe?) is now, right? 6y

Sweettartlaura So yes... it gets better for her 🙂 6y

Smrloomis @Sweettartlaura thanks for worrying about the spoilers 😁 yes, I do! and I saw it on the book blurb too. I think I was just unprepared for how horrible her mental critic is, yikes. The prologue was almost too much for me 😢 6y

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Erika13137

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Finished this one late last night. I remember watching Ally McBeal with my mom and thinking that the actress that played Nelle was just gorgeous. So hard to believe everything she was struggling with at the time with her eating disorders and her sexuality.

This was such and open and honest look about how women today struggle with what they see in the mirror and how no matter what, you can find peace and happiness.

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Erika13137

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Juno and I have gotten a good start to this autobiography. Haven‘t read nonfiction in awhile and it‘s a nice change of pace.

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Erika13137

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A little bit of everything in tonight‘s book haul from the library. 🤓 #librarygirl #nolatefees

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Clwojick

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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 I thoroughly enjoyed this autobiography.

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Dragon

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#true #lyricalapril two memoirs I happen to have close by . I read Mindy Kaling's book and enjoyed it. I haven't finished Portia De Rossi's book yet. Her book is more difficult to read. Anorexia is a very scary illness for the person suffering and for their loved ones.

Cinfhen

Cinfhen I didn't know Portia De Rossi wrote a memoir 🤔I've only heard good things about Mindy Kaling's memoirs 8y

Dragon Thanks @Cinfhen 😀👍 8y

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readinginthedark

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I listened to this on audio (narrated by the author!) about four years ago, and it's really stuck with me. I love that de Rossi displays her progression from a young girl who just wants to be appreciated and noticed as something special through her struggles with anorexia and her sexuality to becoming a woman who understands that happiness is the key to health. #memoirlove #17booklove

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Simona

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I can't say that this is the most #memorablememoirs but her honesty about eating disorders and body image obsession is memorable.

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Amandajoy This breaks my heart. 8y

Simona @Amandajoy Yes, it's sad story but worth to read because of her honesty without sentimentality. 8y

EnidBiteEm 😢 I was surprised. The restraint in her writing, and her skill in letting the story tell itself, made it more powerful. When she writes about the isolation on set in her first big US break (Ally McBeal) ... 😯😢 8y

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Simona @EnidBiteEm I like this too, she tells the story without over dramatization and not looking back to criticize herself. 8y

BarbaraTheBibliophage I just got this at the thrift shop. Curious to get inside her head about the disordered eating. 8y

Simona I think that story is helpful for families and friends of people with eating disorders. @BarbaraTheBibliophage 8y

readinginthedark I found this one very well done. She narrates the audiobook, too, and that was very powerful. 8y

Simona I can imagine that such a intimate story told by herself must feel very powerful. @readinginthedark 8y

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Kitta

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Portia de Rossi's memoir about her struggles with anorexia and accepting her sexuality. Managed to read the entirety of this on the flight, very engrossing. I've struggled with discorded eating and my own sexuality over the years and this was really tough to read, although the epilogue was really uplifting and lovely. ❤️❤️❤️

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