This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare

· HarperCollins
4.6
31 reviews
Ebook
259
Pages
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About this ebook

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.

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4.6
31 reviews
Janelle Lino
March 16, 2019
I loved this book because she was honest about her life. it also feels like she grew up similar to me
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Mary Johnston
October 4, 2018
I loved this book because not only did Gabby tell about her life but she also encourages people to be their true selves which I am working hard to do.
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Gloria Kelow
December 25, 2019
Can really help young girls, ladies, and women with their insecurities and self esteem for being a better person.
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About the author

GABOUREY SIDIBE is an award-winning actress who is best known for the title role of Precious. She has since starred in American Horror Story: Coven, Difficult People, and as Becky on Fox’s smash-hit sensation Empire, and recently made her directorial debut with the short film The Tale of Four. She was born in Brooklyn and raised in Harlem, New York.

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