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“I didn’t decide to become anorexic. It snuck up on me disguised as a healthy diet, a professional attitude. Being as thin as possible was a way to make the job of being an actress easier . . .”

Portia de Rossi weighed only 82 pounds when she collapsed on the set of the Hollywood film in which she was playing her first leading role. This should have been the culmination of all her years of hard work—first as a child model in Australia, then as a cast member of one of the hottest shows on American television. On the outside she was thin and blond, glamorous and successful. On the inside, she was literally dying.

In this searing, unflinchingly honest book, Portia de Rossi captures the complex emotional truth of what it is like when food, weight, and body image take priority over every other human impulse or action. She recounts the elaborate rituals around eating that came to dominate hours of every day, from keeping her daily calorie intake below 300 to eating precisely measured amounts of food out of specific bowls and only with certain utensils. When this wasn’t enough, she resorted to purging and compulsive physical exercise, driving her body and spirit to the breaking point.

Even as she rose to fame as a cast member of the hit television shows Ally McBeal and Arrested Development, Portia alternately starved herself and binged, all the while terrified that the truth of her sexuality would be exposed in the tabloids. She reveals the heartache and fear that accompany a life lived in the closet, a sense of isolation that was only magnified by her unrelenting desire to be ever thinner. With the storytelling skills of a great novelist and the eye for detail of a poet, Portia makes transparent as never before the behaviors and emotions of someone living with an eating disorder.

From her lowest point, Portia began the painful climb back to a life of health and honesty, falling in love with and eventually marrying Ellen DeGeneres, and emerging as an outspoken and articulate advocate for gay rights and women’s health issues.

In this remarkable and beautifully written work, Portia shines a bright light on a dark subject. A crucial book for all those who might sometimes feel at war with themselves or their bodies, Unbearable Lightness is a story that inspires hope and nourishes the spirit. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine), published by Thomson Gale on September 13, 2005. The length of the article is 4466 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Portia heart & soul: in an intimate interview, Arrested Development star Portia de Rossi talks for the first time about sex at 16, coming out to grandma, and finding happiness with Ellen DeGeneres.(Interview)(Cover Story)
Author: Michele Kort
Publication: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 13, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Page: 40(7)

Article Type: Cover Story, Interview

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"I didn't decide to become anorexic.It snuck up on me disguised as a healthy diet, a professional attitude. Although there was a certain glamour to anorexics, I didn't want to be one.I just wanted to excel in dieting.And weighing in at 80 pounds on 300 calories a day, I was the best little dieter there ever was." In scalding prose, Portia de Rossi reveals the pain and illness that haunted her for decades.She alternately starved herself and binged, putting her life in danger and lying to herself and everyone around her about the depth of her illness. From her lowest point, Portia began the painful climb back to health and happiness, ultimately falling head over heels in love with Ellen DeGeneres. In this remarkable and landmark book, she tells a story that inspires hope and nourishes the spirit. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Peter Singer, Peter Brock, Portia de Rossi, Andrew Günsberg, Jay and the Doctor, Brody Dalle, Marieke Hardy, Patrick Wilken, Jona Weinhofen, Myf Shepherd. Excerpt:Andrew Günsberg Andrew Jonas Günsberg (born 29 March 1974) known mostly as Andrew G , is an Australian TV and radio presenter who is best known as the host of the reality series Australian Idol . He was also the compere of Network Ten 's game show The Con Test , and is the current anchor of Network Ten 's live New Year's Eve telecast. He is also a fill-in for Kyle Sandilands on 2Day FM's breakfast program, The Kyle and Jackie O Show and filling in for Charlie Pickering on The 7PM Project . Early life Günsberg was born in London , England in 1974 to a Czech- Jewish father Michael Günsberg and Lithuanian mother Birut née Miku yt . At four months of age, he moved to Adelaide , South Australia , and then to Brisbane , where he spent most of his youth and attended St. Joseph's College, Gregory Terrace . Günsberg had an intense interest in music from a young age, playing in school orchestras, and performing in barbershop quartets and school musicals. In his youth, he learned to read and write music , and to play the bass and double bass , attending music school on the weekends, as well as studying for a year at South Brisbane TAFE where he completed an Advanced Diploma of Contemporary Music majoring in performance. Bands After leaving school, Andrew worked his way through music school as a roadie , where he learned many aspects of the music industry. Following this in 1994, Günsberg started performing in bands around the Brisbane scene, such as Feeble's Junky, and later, was in the original line-up of Resin Dogs , playing double bass. Feeble's Junky released two CDs, Panticlerevgator in 1996 and Dive in 1997. Radio At 20, ... ... Read more

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Blender Magazine, January 2006 Issue.The cover is Kelly Clarkson (7 pages).Also inside: Backstage Scrapbook (8 pages)Kanye West, Coldplay, Fall Out Boy, U2, My Chemical Romance, Bright Eyes.Portia De Rossi, Rivers Cuomo (4 pages), Juelz Santana, Marc Bolan of T. Rex (3 pages), Bruce Springsteen, Gwen Stefani, Fred Durst, Shinedown, We Are Scientists, etc... ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Patrick White, Matthew Mitcham, Portia de Rossi, Royaume Gay et Lesbien Des Îles de La Mer de Corail, Sam Sparro, Ian Roberts, Claire Mcnab. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Patrick White, né le 28 mai 1912 à Londres et mort le 30 septembre 1990 à Sydney, est un écrivain australien d'expression anglaise lauréat du prix Nobel de littérature en 1973. Patrick White est né à Londres le 28 mai 1912, lors du voyage de noces de ses parents, tous deux issus de milieux terriens aisés de la vallée de l'Hunter. Asthmatique, il passe son enfance dans les Blue Mountains avant d'entrer au Cheltenham college à 13 ans. De retour au pays, il travaille comme gardien d'élevage puis écrit des poèmes et des nouvelles tout en préparant son entrée à l'université. Il étudie au King's College de Cambridge dont il sort diplômé en 1935. Il entame alors une carrière littéraire à Londres avec un recueil de poésie,The Ploughman And Other Poems, puis avec un roman et une pièce de théâtre. Il s'engage dans l'aviation durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale et sert comme officier de renseignement en Égypte, en Palestine et en Grèce. Après son retour en Australie, il s'installe comme horticulteur avec son compagnon Manoly Lascaris dans une ferme à Castle Hill, dans la banlieue de Sydney. En 1964, il s'établit à Centennial Park, au cœur de la ville. Son premier roman, Happey Valley (Eden-Ville, 1939) avait déjà pour cadre l'Australie rurale comme ses ouvrages plus tardifs à l'instar de L'Arbre de l'homme (The Tree of Man, 1955), son chef d'œuvre, qui traite de l'urbanisation des campagnes et de la lutte d'un paysan dans les grands espaces. Des morts et des vivants (The Living and the Dead, 1941) explore les mutations de la société à tr...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Winner of the Outstanding Comedy Series Emmy its first year out, Arrested Development is the kind of sitcom that gives you hope for television. A mockumentary-style exploration of the beleaguered Bluth family, it's one of those idiosyncratic shows that doesn't rely on a laugh track or a studio audience; it's shot more like a TV drama, albeit with an omniscient narrator (executive producer Ron Howard) overseeing the proceedings. Holding the Bluths together just barely is son Michael Bluth, the only normal guy in a family that's chock full of nuts. Hardworking and sensible, Michael's certain he's going to be given control of his family's Enron-style corporation upon the retirement of his father. The fact that he's passed over instead for his mother is only a blip when compared to his father's immediate arrest for dubious accounting practices, and the resulting freeze on the family's previously limitless wealth.

Bereft of money, and even less family love, the Bluths have to band together in their moment of need--not easy when everyone's looking out for number 1. In addition to his scabrous parents, Michael has to contend with his lothario older brother, his basically useless younger brother, his greedy twin sister, and her sexually ambiguous husband. Michael's only comrade in sanity is his son George Michael, but then again, the teenage boy harbors a secret crush on his cousin. A peerless ensemble led by the brilliant Bateman (who ever knew he could be this good?), all the actors are pitch-perfect in their roles, delivering the dryly funny, sometimes absurdist dialogue with the speed and flair of classic farce. The unusual tone of Arrested Development takes a bit of getting used to--it's far different from anything you'll see on TV, even HBO--but once you buy in to the Bluths' innumerable dysfunctions, you'll be laughing your head off for hours.--Mark Englehart ... Read more

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Amazing deal...just not on Amazon
This is Seasons One and Two bundled together, six discs in all.This is a great set, but make sure you get it at Wal-Mart for $20, not here.As for the series itself, it's one of the best television shows of all time, brilliantly written and acted. ... Read more