num_pages: 224
description: THE BASIS FOR THE 2006 LIFETIME ORIGINAL MOVIE!"Her book's catchy title belies its substantial this is an honest, perceptive memoir from a feisty survivor who's willing to discuss every detail, like getting sick in cabs during chemo treatments, baldness and sex. " - Publishers WeeklyHaving recently graduated from Columbia Journalism School and landed her dream job at 20/20, the last thing 27-year-old Geralyn expects to hear is a breast cancer diagnosis. And there is one part of the diagnosis that no one will discuss with what it means to be a young girl with cancer in a beauty-obsessed culture. Trying to find herself, while losing her vibrancy and her looks, Geralyn embarks on a road to self-acceptance that will inspire all women. Although her book is explicitly about a period of time where she was driven by fear and uncertainty about the future, Geralyn managed a transformation that will encourage all women under siege to discover their own courage and beauty.The important and outrageous lessons of Why I Wore Lipstick come fast and furious with the same gusto that Geralyn has learned to bring to every moment of her life.
language: English
title: Why I Wore Lipstick: To My Mastectomy
titlecomplete: Why I Wore Lipstick: To My Mastectomy
genres: Book Club, Biography, Medical, Nonfiction, Autobiography, Memoir
ratings_count: 686
publisher: St. Martin's Griffin