The Half of It: A Memoir

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And that's fine, she can talk about whatever she wants, it's her book and she didn't even have to open up as much as she did here, but she did it anyway and I commend her for it. The Matrix' Actor Collin Chou Joins Netflix's 'The Half of It'; 'Sabrina's Abigail Cowen Cast In 'I Still Believe'; Jim Klock Set For 'The 24th' ". It was in her description of struggling to look at childhood footage of herself that I felt the most ashamed for ever feeding into any negative stories about her or any other woman in the media, because this was an experience I held as totally unique and a sign of my brokenness and she shattered that misconception. Now imagine thousands and millions of people attacking one innocent soul on social media just because they are famous. After reading the book, I empathize with Madison’s experience and her anger and hurt are valid, but it got a little repetitive and I found myself skimming a lot of the 160 pages.

The film received the top award at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival, the Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature. I also loved the sections with prompted journal entries surrounding the experiences she discussed in the previous chapter. i feel so informed about the truth behind fame and about what madison really went through to get where she is today. I was especially jarred by her description of being misdiagnosed by mental health professionals for having warring personality traits as if this is not the female condition in a culture that demands of us to be all things at once.

While I wish beyond adequate description that I had access to the kind of support she had (both financially and via the catharsis of having such a platform) through my own similar crisis, I do not co-sign the “this is the trade off for fame” garbage that public FEMALE figures are especially accustomed to hearing. The fact that Madison was a minor and the victim of her photos being leaked and instead of them caring about who leaked them or supporting her through the hard time, they blamed and villainized her. UK fans were delighted to finally be able to get their hands on Madison's book - but they also made a demand.

people really don’t know what’s going on behind closed doors and to read her being so vulnerable makes me so proud of her. This memoir is an honest and unflinching account of self-love, mental health, and advocacy from one of the fastest-rising musical voices and most influential social media presences of her generation.After reading the book, I still know nothing about her upbringing, her friendships, her dynamics with her parents or even how it was to move and live in LA so young.

she said in a video that she reads a lot of self-help and mental health non fiction, which is quite obvious from the writing style / some of the advice given, but if that works for her, then good for her. It made me feel like i was spilling all of my thoughts to someone who could relate to me on a very intimate level. Trig proposes to Aster at a church service, but Ellie and Paul publicly interrupt the moment by sharing the true meaning of "love" using Ellie's wording from a previous letter.Aster reveals that Trig intends to marry her, while Ellie reveals that she does not believe in God and talks about her deceased mother. The truth is women have far more in common with each other than a patriarchal culture would like us to believe- hence the reason women have only just begun TALKING to one another (honestly) finally. Paul realizes that Ellie loves Aster and, due to his religious upbringing, tells Ellie that it is a sin. I wasn't experiencing the true extent of happiness, either, but I was at such a low that I didn't care. I was a diehard Justin Bieber fan and, seeing that he kept promoting her and her song, I decided to check it out.

this girl means so much to me, i remember meeting her in london and not being able to say a single world because i was so shocked that she was right in front of me. Rolling Stone praised the direction, stating that "the gentle touch Wu uses as a filmmaker, which only occasionally drifts into tidiness, does not dull the edges of her quietly revolutionary achievement in telling the story of a young lesbian immigrant’s journey to self-acceptance. g. her insecurities, red flags) but maybe that's just because after reading her memoir, i now want to sit down with her and have a conversation about mental health and life experiences. Still though, I picked this up in hopes of getting to know her better, and that didn't exactly happen. Over the past decade, she has navigated the spotlight as a child, through her teenage years, and now as a young woman in her twenties.My heart breaks for what Madison has been through and i feel like a lot of people - especially women - will relate to the dark parts she decided to share in this memoir. It's not the happy story we were sold via the trailer, and it feels like more promises that only halfway delivered. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). As women we should ALL operate on the assumption that most every woman we encounter will share in much of the trauma that we too have carried in silence and it is in all of our best interests to regard each other with empathy regardless of race, class, etc.