num_pages: 304
description: The author describes how lack of self-esteem, dark family secrets, and an obsession with her appearance and a quest for perfection led to a series of plastic surgeries, her alienation from family and friends, and a downward spiral of theft, bankruptcy, and a bad relationships, before she began her recovery. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
language: English
title: Beautiful Stranger
titlecomplete: Beautiful Stranger
genres: Autobiography, Feminism, Mental Health, Psychology, Biography Memoir, Biography, Health, Memoir, Nonfiction, Mental Illness
ratings_count: 503
publisher: Gotham