Wake Up I'm Fat!: A Memoir

In this New York Times-bestselling inspirational memoir Camryn Manheim Emmy Award-winning costar of The Practice chronicles her journey from a self-hating overweight teenager who desperately wanted to fit in to a self-loving fat activist who is proud to be a misfit.  Wake Up Im Fat! shares her intelligent candid poignant and often hilarious stories of being fat in a society obsessed with being thin.. Camryn takes us from her days as a motorcycle-riding hippie in Santa Cruz to her enrollment at New York Universitys prestigious school of drama--where Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner broke the unspoken theater rules of size by casting her in the role of the ingenue--and finally to Hollywood where she dispelled the fallacy that large women cant be portrayed as sensual sophisticated and confident.. Camryns endearing honesty sass and razor-sharp wit will appeal to any reader who has ever felt like an outcast or yearned to make peace with their body.