In this New York Times-bestselling inspirational memoir, Camryn Manheim, Emmy Award-winning costar of The Practice, chronicles her journey from a self-hating, "overweight" teenager, who desperately wanted to fit in, to a self-loving, fat activist who is proud to be a misfit. Wake Up, I'm Fat! shares her intelligent, candid, poignant, and often hilarious stories of being fat in a society obsessed with being thin.
Camryn takes us from her days as a motorcycle-riding hippie in Santa Cruz to her enrollment at New York University's prestigious school of drama--where Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner broke the unspoken theater rules of size by casting her in the role of the ingenue--and finally to Hollywood, where she dispelled the fallacy that large women can't be portrayed as sensual, sophisticated, and confident.
Camryn's endearing honesty, sass, and razor-sharp wit will appeal to any reader who has ever felt like an outcast or yearned to make peace with their body.
- ISBN10 0767903625
- ISBN13 9780767903622
- Publish Date 1 January 2000 (first published 1 May 1999)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 20 May 2017
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)
- Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Del
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 289
- Language English