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Til The Fat Girl Sings: From an Overweight Nobody to a Broadway Somebody-A Memoir

The Broadway actress recounts her lifelong struggle with obesity, describing the pain and loneliness of childhood obesity, her love of singing and dancing, and her success in the theater that helped her find self-acceptance.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 256 pages

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