Published via Charisma Media
★★
Well, it's safe to say that I'm not the target audience for this. Girl Perfect is, on the face of it, Strickland's memoir of working as a (successful) model, and how unhappy she was doing so (not to mention how damaging the industry can be). At its core, though, the goal of the book is to convince readers that they'll never be satisfied until they've turned to Jesus. I knew this from the description, but it's still...more testimony than I have any real interest in, I guess. Will work better for readers who are more into 'how I hit rock bottom and found Jesus' stories.
A side note: It's interesting to me that the photo insert is exclusively modelling photos—I'm not sure what to make of that. That is, it's fairly standard fare for a memoir about modelling (or otherwise about being in show business, fashion, etc.), but it's curious that, in a book that describes the modelling industry as uniformly miserable and unhealthy, every single picture is a pretty/glamorous/dramatic/whatever shot from her portfolio, without so much as a note in the captions to remind readers that she was not enjoying the life. Not sure what might feel like a better fit to me, but as it is there's something of a disconnect.
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