Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain Audiobook (Free)

“An unusually clean and engrossing memoir of both Hollywood and modern womanhood.” -Los Angeles Occasions

With this searing, unflinchingly honest memoir, actress Portia de Rossi stocks the truth of her very long battle to overcome anorexia and bulimia while surviving in the public attention, and details the new happiness and health she has found in recent years-including her developing and her relationship to Ellen DeGeneres.

With this groundbreaking memoir, Portia de Rossi reveals the discomfort and illness that haunted about Unbearable Lightness: A TALE of Reduction and Gain her for many years, from the time she was a twelve-year-old lady working as a magic size in Australia, through her early rise to fame being a cast member of the hit tv program Ally McBeal. All the while terrified that the reality of her sexuality will be subjected in the tabloids, Portia alternately starved herself and binged, putting her life in peril and concealing from herself and everyone around her the seriousness of her disease.

She describes the elaborate rituals around food that found dominate hours of every day time and explores the pivotal occasions of her years as a child that set her on the path to illness. She reveals the heartache and dread that accompany a existence resided in the wardrobe, a feeling of isolation that was only magnified by her unrelenting need to be ever thinner, ever more in charge of her body and the amount of calories she consumed and spent.

From her lowest stage, Portia began the painful climb back to a life of health and honesty, falling in love and marrying Ellen DeGeneres and emerging as an outspoken and articulate advocate for gay rights and women’s health issues. In this impressive, landmark book, she’s given the globe a tale that inspires wish and nourishes the spirit.