Everybody (Else) Is Perfect

Everybody (Else) Is Perfect: How I Survived Hypocrisy, Beauty, Clicks, and Likes
By Gabrielle Korn

Everybody (Else) Is Perfect. But behind the scenes, things are far from perfect. In fact, just a few months before landing her dream job, Gabrielles health and wellbeing are on the line, and her promotion to editor-in-chief becomes the ultimate test of strength. In this collection of inspirational and searing essays, Gabrielle reveals exactly what its truly like in the fashion world, trying to find love as a young lesbian in New York City, battling with anorexia, and trying not to lose herself in a mirage of womens empowerment and Instagram perfection.

Through deeply personal essays, Gabrielle recounts her struggles to reconcile her long-held insecurities about her body while coming out in the era of The L Word, where swoon-worthy lesbians are portrayed as skinny, fashion-perfect, and power-hungry. She takes us with her everywhere from New York Fashion Week to the doctors office, revealing that the forces that try to keep women small are more pervasive than anyone wants to admit, especially in a world thats been newly branded as woke. From #MeToo to commercialized body positivity, Korns biting, darkly funny analysis turns feminist commentary on its head. Both an in-your-face take on impossible beauty standards and entrenched media ideals

Praise -----------------------------------------------------------------

'A confident, confessional modern account of breaking free from image obsession. ' -Kirkus Reviews

'A captivating page-turner that feels exclusive without resorting to cattiness or cheap gossipShe simultaneously digs below the surface of an industry that often feels skin deep, while divulging integral parts of her own history along the way. Granting front row access to an exclusive world many of us will never experience firsthand, she makes feminism and fashion feel like cohorts in her compulsively readable book.' -Tegan Quin