Let's Just Say It Wasn't Pretty

Let's Just Say It Wasn't Pretty

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From Academy Award winner and bestselling author Diane Keaton comes a candid, hilarious, and deeply affecting look at beauty, aging, and the importance of staying true to yourselfâ€”no matter what anyone else thinks.
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Diane Keaton has spent a lifetime coloring outside the lines of the conventional notion of beauty. In Letâ€™s Just Say It Wasnâ€™t Pretty, she shares the wisdom sheâ€™s accumulated through the years as a mother, daughter, actress, artist, and international style icon. This is a book only Diane Keaton could writeâ€”a smart and funny chronicle of the ups and downs of living and working in a world obsessed with beauty.
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In her one-of-a-kind voice, Keaton offers up a message of empowerment for anyone whoâ€™s ever dreamed of kicking back against the â€œshouldâ€s and â€œsupposed toâ€s that undermine our pursuit of beauty in all its forms. From a mortifying encounter with a makeup artist who tells her she needs to get her eyes fixed to an awkward excursion to Victoriaâ€™s Secret with her teenage daughter, Keaton shares funny and not-so-funny moments from her life in and out of the public eye.
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For Diane Keaton, being beautiful starts with being true to who you are, and in this book she also offers self-knowing commentary on the bold personal choices sheâ€™s made through the years: the wide-brimmed hats, outrageous shoes, and all-weather turtlenecks that have made her an inspiration to anyone who cherishes truly individual styleâ€”and catnip to paparazzi worldwide. She recounts her experiences with the many men in her lifeâ€”including Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, and Sam Shepardâ€”shows how our ideals of beauty change as we age, and explains why a life well lived may be the most beautiful thing of all.
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Wryly observant and as fiercely original as Diane Keaton herself, Letâ€™s Just Say It Wasnâ€™t Pretty is a head-turner of a book that holds up a mirror to our beauty obsessionsâ€”and encourages us to like what we see.

Praise for Let's Just Say It Wasn't Pretty

â€œBehind the sterling movie credits and tomboyish wardrobe, we see a soulful and deep woman contemplating the narrative arc of her own life.â€â€”Newsweek
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â€œDelicious writing . . . This book is like a dishy lunch with the movie star you thought youâ€™d never be lucky enough to meet. . . . Diane Keaton is in a class by herself and this book is good for the soul.â€â€”Liz Smith, Chicago Tribune
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â€œSheâ€™s talented, iconic, quirky . . . and wonderfully blunt. This is just a small sampling of the reasons we love Diane Keaton, and they all permeate the pages of her new memoir.â€â€”Elle
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â€œAs disarming and personable as the actress herself.â€â€”The Huffington Post
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â€œWise, witty, thoughtful, uplifting, the truth, unvarnishedâ€”and very funny.â€â€”Toronto Star

From the Trade Paperback edition.
Country USA
Manufacturer Random House
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2014-04-29
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Random House
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2014-04-29
Format	Kindle eBook

Let's Just Say It Wasn't Pretty

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