Lisa Ray Instagram – Repost from @whereistheshire using @RepostRegramApp – If you are an Indian who grew up in the 90s then you know who Lisa Ray is. One of India’s first supermodels, her pictures were plastered all over from magazines to billboards to TV adverts, a face you just can’t miss. Her early Bombay Dyeing adverts and her walking around in the desert in Afreen Afreen are clear as day in my head. So when she sent me a copy of her autobiography Close to the Bone, I was giddy with excitement.  Reading her story was surreal. Lisa Ray is a really beautiful woman and I assumed that the life of a really beautiful woman must be easy and cushy, but I was wrong big time.  Lisa has had a turbulent but exciting life. She became a coveted poster girl at 16 and with that kind of stardom comes a glamorous life. She jets off to London and Italy at a moment’s notice, literally sits on her haunches and makes rotis as she practices for her role in Water, meets people from the top rung to the bottom shelf from Bollywood and all of this makes for a very, very interesting read. But at the same time, Lisa has her own host of problems, dealing with her body image issues, coping with her mother’s accident, strained relationships, her illness. Her emotions are so raw that at times I wished I could jump right into the book and protect her.  Lisa’s writing is the best part. She is funny, like make you laugh out loud funny, but also deeply poignant and emotional. Her imagery is rich and vivid, creating in my head visuals of places that she had visited.  I loved Lisa’s story but I felt the novel could have been edited better. At places there was too much unwarranted information and a lot of explanation about subjects that I would have just googled otherwise.  All in all it’s a book that should definitely not be missed.  My rating – 3.5/5