Elizabeth Takes Off: On Weight Gain, Weight Loss, Self-image, and Self-esteem

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Elizabeth Taylor shares what she has learned to encourage others to achieve the joy and energy that come with winning back self-esteem.

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PROLOGUE
13
INTRODUCTION
23
PART
33
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About the author (1987)

Elizabeth Taylor's acting career has spanned six decades. Since her film debut at the age of nine, she has received two Oscar Awards and five Best Actress nominations as well as a Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, the French Legion of Honor, and she was made a Dame of the British Empire in 2001. As a young actress she was best known for her roles in "Lassie Come Home" and "National Velvet." Highlights of her later career include "Father of the Bride; Raintree County; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Suddenly, Last Summer; BUtterfield 8; Cleopatra; Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; " and "The Taming of the Shrew." Elizabeth Taylor wrote and illustrated "Nibbles and Me" while a teenager, and it was published when she was fourteen.

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