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A celebrity stylist describes the personal challenges that overshadowed her successful career, from her struggles as an incest survivor to her battles with alcohol and drug abuse, and traces her return to sobriety and professional success.
WOW! Carrie's young years were surely tough, Carrie details her abuse by her stepfather and mistreatment by her alcoholic mother in some detail, and leads us into the not-so-glamorous backside of Hollywood. The world of stars, drugs and alcohol, and the abuse that comes along with the celebrities. I was afraid that this would be another poorly written "tell all" that leads the reader no where. Boy was I wrong!
Carrie White has poured her heart and soul into telling her life story. She's not looking for sympathy, she tells things as they were in her world. The names were not "dropped" - the famous people were as normal to her as our neighbors are to us. White doesn't use names to create sensational gossip. She's sharing her life and her fight to gain control of her own world.
Upper Cut is so well written and so addictive in itself that I couldn't put it down. I was thrilled to have a printed galley because I did carry it around with me and it was way too easy for me to reach into my tote and bring it out to read immediately!! No turning on the e-reader and waiting for it to load in. There's something to be said for a printed book. Instant read!
I was into the read from the first page, although the bits about her abuse by her stepfather, Johnny, were hard to read, I didn't skim a word.
It's great to read about someone's life that ends on the right note, where they do pull themselves up. The path along the way is sometimes hard to read, sometimes hard to understand why she chose what she did, but it's never dull, always truthful and always entertaining.
I highly recommend Upper Cut, it's so nice to see someone survive to share her story so others can see it's possible for people to succeed.
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One day your life will flash before your eyes. make sure it's worth watching. ~JOHN LENNON
My INNER contradictions interest only me, yet I cannot manage to get used to them. I am at once the most timid person on earth and the strongest, the gayest, and the saddest. Not that I am violent by nature, rather, these contrasts, these tremendous opposites RAGE within ME. ~GABRIELLE "COCO" CHANEL
It is not easy to cut through a human head with a hacksaw. ~MICHAEL CRICHTON
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For my children Tyler, Adam, Daisy, Aloma, and Pitita
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"Honey, could you make Mommy and Johnny a little drinkie-poo?" I liked it when my mother included me. I picked up their glasses from that coffee table that never had coffee on it and walked to the bamboo bar. Mixing drinks was easy for me. I'd been doing it for my mother and her boyfriends for a while. Mot much to figure out - there were only two bottles behind the bar. "Just a little ice, honey, and more bourbon than 7UP," my mother reminded me. If I filled the glass too full, I would sip from them to make it easier to carry. I was six years old.
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"I know, Olive, sweetheart, and I'm gonna do your hair."
A celebrity stylist describes the personal challenges that overshadowed her successful career, from her struggles as an incest survivor to her battles with alcohol and drug abuse, and traces her return to sobriety and professional success.
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Carrie White has poured her heart and soul into telling her life story. She's not looking for sympathy, she tells things as they were in her world. The names were not "dropped" - the famous people were as normal to her as our neighbors are to us. White doesn't use names to create sensational gossip. She's sharing her life and her fight to gain control of her own world.
Upper Cut is so well written and so addictive in itself that I couldn't put it down. I was thrilled to have a printed galley because I did carry it around with me and it was way too easy for me to reach into my tote and bring it out to read immediately!! No turning on the e-reader and waiting for it to load in. There's something to be said for a printed book. Instant read!
I was into the read from the first page, although the bits about her abuse by her stepfather, Johnny, were hard to read, I didn't skim a word.
It's great to read about someone's life that ends on the right note, where they do pull themselves up. The path along the way is sometimes hard to read, sometimes hard to understand why she chose what she did, but it's never dull, always truthful and always entertaining.
I highly recommend Upper Cut, it's so nice to see someone survive to share her story so others can see it's possible for people to succeed.
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