After listening to some of her life via the podcast You Must Remember This, the host Karina Longworth suggested this book as one that covers the early 80s modeling culture and this wasn't wrong. Carre manages to tell her story and keep it mostly compelling the entire time. From her young life to her time as a star model, there are so many ups and plenty of downs as she works to be successful and later fight off her demons.

As I got to the end I could see how much of the story was now seen through the lens of her Buddhist Faith and the whole story of he life is molded to reach her moments of enlightenment and overcome her addiction and abusive relationship with Mickey Rourke. With memoirs that come to a revelation on a personal journey, it can sometimes get to be boring and 'sappy' after the major time of struggle but this book doesn't fall completely into those tropes. I would say the Buddhist perspective helps this because she is able to really speak to her struggles even after she gets away from Rourke and the use of drugs.

It is maybe a little long at times. I listened to the audio version and it did drag a little as it came to the conclusion but there was a lot for her to really wrap up