The Sally Struthers Natural beauty book (Hardcover)

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 210 pages
• Publisher: Doubleday; 1st edition (1979)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0385143508
• ISBN-13: 978-0385143509
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,608,796 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Amazing Secrets of one of the Biggest Stars Around, March 3, 2003

By	Charles Henry Higgensworth III (Boston, Massachusetts) - See all my reviews

Most people probably buy this book because they want to look as great as Sally Struthers, but I bought it for the thick autobiographical section, as I'm a mammoth fan and am always interested in learning more about her background. Herein we learn that Struthers grew up in an old New England whaling village, the eldest daughter of a jumbo jet pilot. She first became a national celebrity 1970's, and since then she's just gotten bigger and bigger. Older fans will never forget her massively successful debut in the huge TV hit "All in the Family," a show that bravely took on the weighty social issues of the day, winning tons of fans in the process. In her role as daughter Gloria, Struthers was often reduced to blubbering at her father's enormous insensitivities. Bulging sacks of fan mail starting flooding in and Struthers was soon living large on her fat paychecks, often appearing in high-paying commercials for Middle American family products including Chunky Soup, Hefty Bags, and Michelin tires. Struthers' colossal profile landed her parts in a number of films, including a touchstone role as a powerful villain in The Empire Strikes Back. She has since become a truly enormous philanthropist, taking on meaty problems like Third World hunger. Her frenetic pace has sadly eaten into her training schedule, leading some to whisper that she has let her physique slip somewhat. These whispers became a roar in the late 80's when Struthers went jogging after a commercial shoot in the small California town of Loma Prieta, with famous repercussions. A subsequent NASA investigation into whether her gravitational field was in some way responsible for the Challenger disaster made matters worse. But Struthers overcame these hard times by heaving herself into her charity work. The countless awards that she has received for her philanthropy have no doubt softened the pain of earlier years, particularly the U.S. Postal Service's recent decision to award her with her own Zip code. As this sterling book makes clear, Struthers' voracious appetite for success is wholly unsated, and as the years go by it will increasingly hard to miss the vast footprint that she is leaving on her profession.