The Oscar-nominated
Precious star and
Empire actress delivers a riveting memoir that is wise, complex, smart, funny, and breaks the mold, just like Sidibe, herself.
Gabourey Sidibe - "Gabby" to her legion of fans - skyrocketed to international fame in 2009 when she played the leading role in Lee Daniels' acclaimed movie
Precious.
In This Is Just My Face, she shares a one-of-a-kind life story in a voice as fresh and challenging as many of the unique characters she's played onscreen.
With full-throttle honesty, Sidibe paints her Bed-Stuy/Harlem family life with a polygamous father and a gifted mother who supports her two children by singing in the subway. Sidibe tells the engrossing, inspiring story of her first job as a phone sex "talker". And she shares her unconventional (of course!) rise to fame as a movie star alongside "a superstar cast of rich people who lived in mansions and had their own private islands and amazing careers while I lived in my mom's apartment."
Sidibe's memoir hits hard with self-knowing dispatches on friendship, depression, celebrity, haters, fashion, race, and weight ("If I could just get the world to see me the way I see myself," she writes, "would my body still be a thing you walked away thinking about?").
Irreverent, hilarious, and untraditional,
This Is Just My Face will resonate with anyone who has ever felt different and with anyone who has ever felt inspired to make a dream come true.
- 21 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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Print ISBN
9781328915801
Subtopic
Social Science BiographiesTable of contents
- Title Page
- Contents
- Copyright
- Claw-foot Tub and Mermaid Tail
- Virgin fo’ Life
- Why You Shouldn’t Marry for a Green Card
- A Psychic Told Me So
- #BlackGirlMagic
- Make a Wish
- Parade of Ugly
- A Door of One’s Own
- Obituary
- Gabourey, But You Can Call Me Gabby
- MYOB: Mind Your Own Body
- Twelve Sixty-six
- Is This a Date?
- Another Psychic Told Me So
- Head of Household
- Senegalese Crown
- Will I Still Be Beautiful When I’m Not Fat?
- Next
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Follow Gabby on Social Media
- Go Behind the Scenes of Our Cover Photo Shoot
- Connect with HMH
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