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All Made Up: A Girl's Guide To Seeing Through Celebrity Hype...And Celebrating Real Beauty (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

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WOW! This easy and entertaining read by former model and girls' activist Audrey Brashich could not have arrived at a better moment. American women and girls are increasingly frothing at the mouth for the mundane details of the lives of Britney, Jen, and "celebutantes" like Paris Hilton. This addictive focus on a handful of Beautiful People is drowning out substance, like "real" news of the world instead of who's choosing an exotic baby name, real achievements by real women, instead of who's in rehab again or was seen on a shopping spree, and real beauty instead of an unattainable combination of Barbielike measurements. Many girls these days "get" that there's a difference between stars'/models' lives and reality. However, media mania is so pervasive that girls are bound to be affected in many subtle ways. ALL MADE UP will help any girl see herself and her world more clearly. Every preteen and teen (female and male) should check this book out now.--Catherine Dee, author of THE GIRLS' GUIDE TO LIFE and THE GIRLS' BOOK OF WISDOM

I wish I had this book when I was young. I want to give it to every teenage girl growing up in today's twisted world of skinny, shallow celebrity worship--and to every parent of every teen girl, and to every teen boy who blindly believes what he's told about what makes chicks cool and attractive. It's a rare treat to find a book on this subject that is smart without being preachy, informative without being pedantic, and provocative without being alienating. This is what teen magazines should be. This is what parenting guides should be. This is what we all should have been told as we entered puberty.

Media ia so much a part of our lives that we so rarely even stop to consider the effect it has on something as fundamental as body image.
The situation gets worse when you try to consider just how to speak to the younger generation about such things without invoking pedantics.
But Audrey Brashich gets right to the heart of the matter in this book, by speaking the right language, using all the right examples, and never, ever preaching.
More than an information goldmine, this book is a great guide on how to decipher the media--and to take away from it what's useful and good about it, and leave the rest of it behind.
It's a terrific resource for teachers!

As someone who volunteers with teen girls on a regular basis, and hears them obsess about their bodies, "All Made Up" is a breath of fresh air. My favorite aspect of this book is how it helps girls deal with boys who think that all girls should look like pop stars and models -- my favorite chapter. It reminds young women that they're wonderful just as they are, yet "All Made Up" is not condescending or preachy. It's obvious the author knows what she's talking about; she constantly pulls examples from her days as a teen model, and her experience as a teen magazine editor. I only wish this book existed when I was a teen.

This book is a great introduction to media literacy. Boys as well as girls would benefit from knowing how to critique what they see in the media and what is really going on behind the scenes. I only regret that there is just a chapter on boys and that the whole book was not geared toward both genders. Definitely a must read.

I recently gave this book to my two nieces (ages 13 & 14) and it has really helped them to view the media and all its hype in a new way. While they still love ANTM (such a guilty pleasure), they now take the show, other models and celebrities for what they're worth. This book is insightful with tons of great resources. Moms, buy this book for your young girls NOW!