Still Hungry After All These Years: My Story
by Richard Simmons
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Author: Richard SimmonsEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1999-09-01
ISBN: 1577193563
Number of pages: 303
Publisher: Gt Pub Corp
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Book Review: Great story of how he became famous, his rise to the top
Summary: 3 Stars
I enjoyed the book and feel that we now know a bit more about Richard beyond the sequined tops and oiled legs. We got a good look at how his business came to be and that he loves his mother and brother, hates his father. I now feel that the pain he felt growing up was the result of being called "sissy" far more than being obese. I always thought that he related with our obese plight because he 'had been there, done that', now I question that. His "fat picture" looks little different than he does today. Richard is a brilliant marketer and has capitalized on his talent for helping others, however, I question whether he truely felt the same pain that the obese feel. His pain was great, but it was the pain of being different, odd, a-sexual but not obese and stuck in a body you hate, he is stuck in a life that he hates. Today, Richard isn't a hard body vision of health. His skin looks bad, his hair is unhealthy looking and he oils himself to look shiney. I think that Richard should walk a bit more of the walk. If an obese person looks at Richard as the model of what they want to be like when they reach their goal weight, little wonder so many of his followers remain obese and those that do lose gain it back, only to have to buy the next version of his plan. I want a role model who looks healthy and leads a normal, quality full life, not one that he can't talk about. There is no way he only has dogs and a housekeeper in his personal life. Why won't he tell us what he really is like, why be the foder for David Letterman if he is straight, why not come out and be honest. He is hiding from the demons that haunt him and this book all to clearly shows us that, or doesn't...which is the problem. At least Suzan Powter laid her cards on the table, alcohol, etc.... that trouble her. Richard gives us an autobiography that leaves more questions than you had before reading it!
Summary of Still Hungry After All These Years: My Story
Who is the real Richard Simmons? The energetic wizard who gets overweight people eating right and exercising? The comic who prances around in shorts and a tank top on late-night television? The compassionate listener who sheds tears at sad stories? They're all real, but there's much more. In this book, you learn how Simmons went from being an overweight child whose obsession for food controlled his life to becoming the exercise-and-diet guru of today. It's an engrossing tale, filled with poignant anecdotes, fascinating tidbits (he played a meatball in a commercial when he was an art student in Italy), and even horror stories (licking the nozzle of an empty asthma inhaler, trying to get just one more drop so he could breathe, because his father restricted his inhaler refills). The style is pure Richard: food-obsessed and often very funny ("I even changed my own diapers because I didn't like the way my parents did it").Much of the book is about--what else?--food. Even as a baby,
I could recognize a package of bacon at twenty feet. The strips of bacon looked so weak, so flimsy, so sad, until they hit the frying pan. Then they began swimming and dancing, lacing up at the sides and turning golden brown.At adolescence, his tastes matured. "Puberty was graduating from Thousand Island salad dressing to Caesar salads... from hot dogs and hamburgers to beef stroganoff... from ice cream in a cone to crème brulée." Simmons describes the torments of being obese (268 pounds as a college student), the humiliation of the diet doctors, and his "angels"--the special people who turned his life around. He has a definite knack for drawing the reader in; you'll feel like a dear friend has just confided his life story to you. --Joan Price
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