Unbearable Lightness
Posted by siewfun | Posted in Review | Posted on 13-06-2011
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De Rossi, an Australian model turned actress gained fame first as icy beauty Nelle Porter in TV series Ally McBeal, then as George Micheal’s hilariously self-centred sister in comedy series Arrested Development.
In Unbearable Lightness, de Rossi chronicles her battle with anorexia, a disorder that consumed her body, her mind and her life. De Rossi was always an over-achiever.
As a child, she was horrified once when her mother referred to their family as “average” and spent her life trying to rise above the curse of ordinariness. Read the rest of the review here.