Gut Feelings by Carnie Wilson
Title: Gut Feelings – From Fear & Despair to Health & Hope
Genre: Health/Self Help/Biography Author: Carnie Wilson
Edition: Published Spotlight Health 2001 – large paperback – good secondhand condition.
Carnie Wilson’s story is a journey from darkness of a lifelong struggle with emotional rejection, compulsive eating, and morbid obesity into the light of health. Born the daughter of pop music royalty (Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys) and gifted with her own talents that brought her fame and fortune, she came to feel that none of this mattered. She would never be whole and happy until she achieved a healthy weight and body image. With the success in the multiplatinum pop group Wilson Phillips, she became the darling of overweight activists, defining a larger-than-life “no apologies” sense of style for big women. However, behind the bravado were feelings of shame, self-hatred and desperation. Carnie’s weight gradually climbed to more than 300 pounds, threatening her life. This is Carnie’s story of how she turned her life around….
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