This Is Just My Face: Try Not To Stare
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“If i could just get the world to see me the way i see myself, would my body still be a thing you walked away thinking about?”
Gabourey Sidibe – The Oscar nominated Precious star and Empire actress – Has a voice like no other.
She is wise, complex, smart, and funny – Just as likely to make you cry with laughter as to see the world differently. 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 family life growing up in 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 in Precious, 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 clear eyed dispatches on friendship, depression, haters, celebrity, fashion, race and weight. 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.
Author(s): Gabourey Sidibe
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