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How Not to be a Supermodel

By Ruth Crilly

A funny and nostalgic memoir from former supermodel turned online content creator Ruth Crilly.

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Adult non fiction
Published: 29/08/2024
ISBN number: 9781788709224
Price: £20.00
Length: 384 pages
Edition: Hardback

How Not to be a Supermodel

By Ruth Crilly

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Details

Adult non fiction
Published: 29/08/2024
ISBN number: 9781788709224
Price: £20.00
Length: 384 pages
Edition: Hardback

A funny and nostalgic memoir from former supermodel turned online content creator Ruth Crilly.

Join Ruth Crilly in this comic memoir as she teeters through the noughties and lifts the lid on her days as an international fashion model. Told with unparalleled wit and remarkable detail, this is a book for anyone who dreams big and aims high but never quite reaches their goal.

At twenty years old, five feet eight and with boobs that were ‘inconveniently fulsome’, Ruth was not quite young enough, tall enough or waif-like enough to ever hope for a meteoric rise to supermodel status. And yet her sheer optimism and questionable grasp on reality led her to abandon her law degree and begin a career with one of the biggest agencies in the world.

Follow Ruth through a rip-roaring, hilarious decade of not-quite-making-it as a supermodel. Fuelled by little more than cigarettes and the stress of her spiralling debt she criss-crosses the world in pursuit of fame and fortune. But how far is she willing to go for this wildly unrealistic dream?

Bridget Jones meets the Devil Wears PradaHow Not to be a Supermodel is a time capsule of a book that dives into one of the world’s most fascinating industries. Offering a glimpse into both the high glamour and juddering reality of a by-gone era, this comic memoir tackles the darkest of subjects with the very lightest touch and injects humour and a heart-warming honesty into a story that could have so easily ended a different way.

Authors

Ruth Crilly

Ruth Crilly is an award-winning online writer and content creator respected for her honest beauty reviews and loved for her hilarious, unfiltered life updates. After spending over a decade as a fashion model, she became one of the UK’s first social media stars in 2010 and her eponymous blog has been read more than 50 million times.

Her earlier career as a successful fashion model left her with a fear of tape measures, diminished confidence in her physical appearance and a horrible tendency to rely on self-deprecation as a form of humour.