Damaged Beauty - Margaret Gardiner

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Résumé :
A top-5 bestseller at Exclusive Books - in two languages - from former Miss Universe Margaret Gardiner. As lush and luxurious as it is powerful and profound. - LA Weekly To the world, Joey Superstar has it all - the face, the fame, the billionaire husband, the glittering 1980s life of runways and premieres. Behind the flashbulbs, she is coming apart. When her marriage detonates across the headlines and the cracks can no longer be hidden, Joey is sent to a place called The House of Rest - where, for the first time, someone begins to unpick the threads of who she really is. To rebuild, she must face the past she has spent a lifetime running from. She was taught to pretend. She's done pretending. Can she survive her truth? A vulnerable main character you can't help but feel for. - LoveReading UK Unflinching and unforgettable, Damaged Beauty: Joey Superstar is a story of glamour and grit, self-destruction and survival - and the secret so many women carry alone. An emotional and immersive narrative that stays with the reader long after the last page. - IndieReader I looked up and it was the middle of the night - I hadn't realised how long I'd been reading. - Novel Kicks...

Biographie:
Former Miss Universe Margaret Gardiner became an international cover girl at 16, Miss Universe at 18, and for ten years the fashion editor at GoldenGlobes.com, interviewing stars from Angelina Jolie to Zendaya. With a degree in psychology, she has seen both the sparkle of the spotlight and the grit beneath it - what the glossy images never show. Damaged Beauty: Joey Superstar is her debut, the first in the Damaged Beauty series....

Sommaire:
Welcome to the world of model Joey Superstar - a whirlwind of cocaine, sex, and money. Josaphina Brinkley seems to have it all: she's a superstar model in 1980s America, a cover girl plastered naked on fashion billboards above Sunset Blvd. Women want to be her. Men simply want her. But underneath the glossy veneer she hides a traumatic past. The end of her marriage to Italian Aristocracy led to a stint in rehab. As she returns to parties, premiers and modeling, she's hoping a life of designer clothes and beautiful people won't take her back to blow. If only she could be truly seen, heard and understood, perhaps she wouldn't self-destruct again? Joey sets out to confront the roots of her wildness - but must admit to a youthful act that haunts her. As Joey fights from addiction to redemption, can she change the course of her life, deal with her dark past and become the superstar she was always destined to be? Former Miss Universe Margaret Gardiner gives readers the key to a secret world of supermodels, sex, style and scandal in her deliciously intoxicating debut, Joey Superstar, the first in an exciting Damaged Beauty series. Margaret Gardiner became an international cover girl at 16, Miss Universe at 18, and ultimately, the fashion editor at GoldenGlobes.com. She's worked with A-list stars from Angelina Jolie to Zendaya. She knows what it is like to be on the red carpet, in the spotlight - and what goes on behind the scenes. With a degree in psychology, and a focus on diversity, equity and inclusion, her debut novel is for every woman who has ever been made to feel less....