This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare
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The Oscar-nominated Precious star and Empire actress delivers a riveting memoir that is wise, complex, smart, funny, and breaks the mold, just like Sidibe, herself. Gabourey Sidibe - "Gabby" to her legion of fans - skyrocketed to international fame in 2009 when she played the leading role in Lee Daniels' 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 she's 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." Sidibe's 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 untraditional, This Is Just My Face will resonate with anyone who has ever felt different and with anyone who has ever felt inspired to make a dream come true.
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Sidibe, G. (2017). This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare. [United States], HarperCollins.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Sidibe, Gabourey. 2017. This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare. [United States], HarperCollins.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Sidibe, Gabourey, This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare. [United States], HarperCollins, 2017.
MLA Citation (style guide)Sidibe, Gabourey. This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare. [United States], HarperCollins, 2017.
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