Wake Up, I'm Fat!

Wake Up, I'm Fat!In this New York Times bestselling inspirational memoir, Camryn Manheim, Emmy Award winning costar of The Practice, chronicles her journey from a self hating, "overweight" teenager, who desperately wanted to fit in, to a self loving, fat activist who is proud to be a misfit. Wake Up, I'm Fat shares her intelligent, candid, poignant, and often hilarious stories of being fat in a society obsessed with being thin. Camryn takes us from her days as a

In this New York Times-bestselling inspirational memoir, Camryn Manheim, Emmy Award-winning costar of The Practice, chronicles her journey from a self-hating, "overweight" teenager, who desperately wanted to fit in, to a self-loving, fat activist who is proud to be a misfit. Wake Up, I'm Fat shares her intelligent, candid, poignant, and often hilarious stories of being fat in a society obsessed with being thin.

Camryn takes us from her days as a motorcycle-riding hippie in Santa Cruz to her enrollment at New York University's prestigious school of drama--where Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner broke the unspoken theater rules of size by casting her in the role of the ingenue--and finally to Hollywood, where she dispelled the fallacy that large women can't be portrayed as sensual, sophisticated, and confident.

Camryn's endearing honesty, sass, and razor-sharp wit will appeal to any reader who has ever felt like an outcast or yearned to make peace with their body.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Broadway Books
Published: 05/09/2000
ISBN: 9780767903639
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 8.55h x 5.58w x 0.76d

Review Citations: Entertainment Weekly 05/26/2000 pg. 65