Lisa Ray Instagram – So grateful #ClosetotheBone is featured here and I’m moved by such a canny review: like the lid of my skull has been neatly flipped open and the contents emptied into this post 😊 Thank you! Repost from @thelabellife using @RepostRegramApp – #TheLabelBookClub: Close to the Bone by @lisaraniray is not what you would expect, as a memoir of THE 90s pin-up girl you would expect a name-dropping litany to Bollywood. However, it is something much more powerful and intimate, a fitting example of the old adage ‘don’t judge a book by it’s cover’. The book is a rare look into the tumultuous mind of a 17 year old overnight success, a shy-introverted-rebel at heart, whose life has always been a double-edged sword. Lisa’s success came with a caveat, be loved by the world but face horrific personal struggles simultaneously; become a sensation in India but have your mother paralysed in an accident, be at the pinnacle of her profession while suffering bulimia. Or so she thought, till she realised that this ‘splintering of self’ into the Lisa-the-model, Lisa-the-cancer-survivor, Lisa-the-lover is self inflicted. A failure to face emotions, accept yourself, and accept love led to a denial that spanned decades and was painfully reconciled after many moons. It is not easy to peel your layers & it is unbelievably hard to work on yourself constantly, to make yourself a happier human. To see this never-ending process illuminated in an honest and delightfully conspiratorial way in @closetothebone.book inspires us to take that one step. To follow our hunches, be at peace with our choices & always stay hopeful about the future. #TheLabelLife #LisaRay #CloseToTheBone #BookClub #NowReading #Bookstagram #Reading #Books #Weekend #WeekendReads #BookReviews #WhatToRead #SelfDiscovery