num_pages: 256
description: The Oscar-nominated Precious star and Empire actress delivers a much-awaited memoirwise complex smart funnythat is different from anything weve readGabourey SidibeGabby to her legion of fansskyrocketed to international fame in 2009 when she played the leading role in Lee Danielss 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 shes 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. Sidibes 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 nontraditional This Is Just My Face takes its place and fills a void on the shelf of writers from Mindy Kaling to David Sedaris to Lena Dunham.
language: English
title: This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare
publisher: Mariner Books