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On with Kara Swisher
This was her memoir written in 1985, but she said that the book wasn't really about her, and she was not happy with how it was marketed or handled by publishers.
You wrote this book, this memoir that was not, it was called On Your Own, but it wasn't on your own, it wasn't anything about you.
— Episode: Brooke Shields on Surviving Hollywood
Episode: Brooke Shields on Surviving Hollywood
This was her memoir written in 1985, but she said that the book wasn't really about her, and she was not happy with how it was marketed or handled by publishers.
You wrote this book, this memoir that was not, it was called On Your Own, but it wasn't on your own, it wasn't anything about you.
No, and they screwed me over from day one.
Yeah, yeah, I like the leg warmer part, that was my favorite. Oh, but I mean, it was so insulting to me. And I've been desperately trying to find that first chapter that I actually penned myself. But that was just, that was such a moment where, it's so interesting, that was so much more insulting to me than any of the other shit people wrote about me.