How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone: A Memoir

A bold and innovative memoir that explores who holds the power in an image-obsessed culture, from the model and activist who helped organize the movement to bring equity to fashion. "Fiercely intellectual, deeply vulnerable, and unapologetically honest."--Imani Perry, National Book Award-winning author of South to America By elevating me for something I have no control over, the industry and economy signal to all women: There is almost nothing you can do or create that is as valuable as how you look. Scouted by a modeling agent when she was just sixteen years old, Cameron Russell first approached her job with some reservations: She was a serious student with her sights set on college, not the runway. But modeling was a job that seemed to offer young women like herself unprecedented access to wealth, fame, and influence. Besides, as she was often reminded, "there are a million girls in line" who would eagerly replace her. In her powerful memoir, Russell chronicles how she learned to nav