Gia biography book
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Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia (Paperback)
By Stephen Fried
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The inspiration behind the Emmy Award–winning HBO film Gia with Angelina Jolie, this “vivid…exhaustive” (The New York Times Book Review) account of the iconic and tragic life, career, and legacy of supermodel Gia Carangi features a new afterword by the author.
At seventeen, Gia Carangi was working the counter at her father’s Philadelphia luncheonette. Within a year, she was one of the world’s top models, gracing the covers of Cosmopolitan and Vogue, partying at Studio 54, and redefining the fashion industry’s standard of beauty.
But behind the glitz and fame, Gia was a young woman in pain, desperate for her mother’s approval and facing a drug addiction that quickly spun out of control. With dizzying speed, she went from $10,000-a-day fashion shoots to using drugs on the streets of New York and Atlantic City before finally being blackballed from modeling. At twenty-six, Gia once again made history as one of the first famous women to die of AIDS.
This “chilling tale” (The Boston Globe), based on hundreds of interviews with friends, family, lovers, and fashionistas (the
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Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia
March 8, 2019
This is an astonishing story of an incredible woman's life and death. Stephen Fried lays bare everything I wanted to know (and possibly things I didn't know I wanted to know until I read the book) about Gia Carangi. Her story opens with John Keats famous quote from Endymion, "A thing of beauty is a joy forever..." which I think clearly explains what we are thinking and feeling inside when we see a photograph of someone beautiful - they never look unattractive, their life is perfect and they will never grow old and die. That's why I thought this book was amazing. She was reputed to be the very first "supermodel", but her story brings Gia to a very human level, a place where people can identify with her struggle and hopefully learn from her mistakes - something she truly wanted for young children. Mr. Fried has done a fabulous job of getting this message across. Wouldn't it be interesting to see how this book could change the landscape of adolescence with the struggle of self-esteem and lack of purpose many teenage girls endure if it became required reading in middle school?
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This was also a grievous look at the perception of AIDS in the early 80's, mostly due to the lack of information available. She is believed to b
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Thing of Beauty: The Catastrophe of Supermodel Gia
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