Beautiful Stranger: A Memoir of an Obsession with Perfection | Hope Donahue
The author describes how lack of self-esteem, dark family secrets, and an obsession with her appearance and a quest for perfection led to a series of plastic surgeries, her alienation from family and friends, and a downward spiral of theft, bankruptcy, and a bad relationships, before she began her recovery. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.