---A MODEL LIFE is a young adult memoir about my transformation from dyslexic-chubby-outcast to professional model, and the four years I spent as a working teenage model traveling the globe alone. A MODEL LIFE holds the true-life insight into the hideously beautiful world of fashion; a world I just managed to survive. This edgy coming of age story is set in the early nineties when chaperones were rarely, if ever provided, and abuse, emotional and physical, was the norm.


---“Jennifer Sky writes dreamy, lyrical prose about a subject that young women will find especially compelling.  She takes us with her on a painful but glamorous and fascinating journey from ugly duckling, to model swan to self-realized young woman.” Francesca Lia Block

---"Jennifer Sky approaches A MODEL LIFE with a poet's voice and a seamstress' shrewd attention to detail. The result is a compulsively readable, totally original journey through the world of high fashion and modeling, which turns out to be anything but pretty. Legions of young readers won't be able to put it down." Samantha Dunn


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