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Mar 30, 2021 · Sharon Stone, one of the most renowned actresses in the world, suffered a massive stroke that cost her not only her health, but her career, family, fortune, and global fame. In The Beauty of Living Twice, Stone chronicles her efforts to rebuild her life and writes about her slow road back to wholeness and health.
- Knopf
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Mar 30, 2021 · Actress and human rights activist Sharon Stone's brave, contemplative and inspiring memoir, THE BEAUTY OF LIVING TWICE, is a tale of survival: surviving physical and sexual abuse as a child, an aneurysm and stroke that derailed her life for two years and the 13-year legal fight to regain the custody of her first adopted son.
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- Family trauma. Stone dedicates the book to her mother but says her love for her parents only really came later in life. When she was a child, her mum "slapped me into the next week" if the young Sharon "sassed" her, and she would "get the crap strapped out of me with a belt" by her dad.
- That Basic Instinct scene. Getty Images. Stone gained a reputation as a femme fatale thanks to Basic Instinct. Stone's character seduces the detective pursuing her, played by Michael Douglas, and a scene where she crosses her legs during an interrogation soon became infamous.
- Involuntary breast enlargement. But she didn't have a choice about what happened when she needed surgery after benign tumours were found in her breasts in 2001.
- 'Going towards the light' She says that surgery indirectly led to more serious health problems when she suffered a bleed on her brain and a stroke. She recounts how she was in hospital when she "suddenly felt everything moving strangely, as if the film of my life were moving through a camera backward.
In The Beauty of Living Twice, Stone chronicles her efforts to rebuild her life and writes about her slow road back to wholeness and health. In a business that doesn’t accept failure, in a world where too many voices are silenced, Stone found the power to return, the courage to speak up, and the will to make a difference in the lives of men ...
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Mar 30, 2021 · In The Beauty of Living Twice, Stone chronicles her efforts to rebuild her life and writes about her slow road back to wholeness and health.
- 0525656774, 9780525656777
- Sharon Stone
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2021
In The Beauty of Living Twice, Stone chronicles her efforts to rebuild her life and writes about her slow road back to wholeness and health. In a business that doesn't accept failure, in a world...
The Beauty of Living Twice is a book for the wounded, and a book for the survivors; it's a celebration of women's strength and resilience, a reckoning, and a call to activism....
