Body Image Warrior

Name: Body Image Warrior
Brand: Allen & Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781760523817
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One woman's fight for change in the modelling industry

By Chelsea Bonner

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Body Image Warrior is a compelling memoir and body positivity manifesto by Chelsea Bonner, an industry insider who challenges the narrow standards of beauty in modelling and advertising. Chelsea shares her journey from growing up in Australia's entertainment spotlight to founding BELLA, a modelling agency dedicated to healthy body sizes and reshaping perceptions of beauty. Her story reveals the pressures women face and her relentless fight to transform an industry that often demands conformity to unrealistic ideals.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in biographies, body positivity, and the behind-the-scenes realities of the fashion industry. It will resonate with those who seek inspiring stories of resilience and change within cultural norms around beauty.

Body Image Warrior offers an insider's perspective on the curve model industry, in this uplifting story about one woman's mission to change the way we think about beauty and body image forever.

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Chelsea Bonner is an absolute powerhouse - Mia Freedman

Part memoir and part positive body image manifesto, Body Image Warrior offers an insider's perspective on the industry and highlights how the images the world sees are only part of the story. The modelling and advertising industries persistently tell women they're fat, ugly, and abnormal if they do not conform to a Western ideal of beauty. In 2002, Chelsea Bonner founded BELLA, a modelling agency focused on healthy body size, dedicated to changing our dangerously narrow perception of 'beautiful'.

Chelsea was born into the Australian entertainment industry, daughter of one of the country's most famous media couples, and grew up with the painful reality of her family life hidden behind a façade of gloss. She was expected to follow effortlessly in her parents' beautiful shadows, but her natural body shape led to teenage rebellion. Instead, Chelsea decided on a career as a modelling agent and, shocked at what she witnessed, became determined to change the industry from within. She has fought through illness, broken relationships, the collapse of businesses, and exclusion by powerful industry forces.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781760523817

Publisher: Murdoch Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 February 2019

Country: Australia

Imprint: Murdoch Books

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 367g

Pages: 272

Collections

Biography & Memoir Chelsea Bonner Education & Reference Non-Fiction

About the Author

Chelsea Bonner was born into the Australian entertainment industry. Starting her career as a junior agent when she was still a teenager, she went on to work at top modelling agencies in Melbourne and Sydney, becoming responsible for launching the careers of some of Australia's most well-known fashion and advertising photographers, hair and makeup artists and stylists. She also worked as a very successful model herself, living in New York and taking on prestigious campaigns across Australia.

Founding BELLA Models in 2002, an agency focused on health and changing the perception of size and beauty, Chelsea has worked passionately within the media and modelling industry for many years to redefine the boundaries of fashion model sizes. BELLA is now known all over the world, and her models have appeared on 'World First' covers and in the fashion editorials of Sports Illustrated, Vogue, ELLE, Cosmopolitan and marie claire. Bella Management now represents young actors, fitness and advertising entities.