Down the Drain

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Julia Fox is famous for many her captivating acting, such as her breakout role in the film Uncut Gems ; her trendsetting style, including bleached eyebrows, exaggerated eyeshadow, and cutout dresses; her mastery of social media, where she entertains and educates her millions of followers.

but in all seriousness this was a great memoir detailing julia’s very interesting life, which was just as funny and entertaining as it was vulnerable. My strong intuition and excellent improvisation skills keep the job interesting and the money rolling in. Fox recounts her turbulent path to cultural supremacy: her parents’ volatile relationship that divided her childhood between Italy and New York City and left her largely raising herself; a possessive and abusive drug-dealing boyfriend whose torment continued even from within Rikers Island; her own trips to jail as well as to a psychiatric hospital; her work as a dominatrix that led to a complicated entanglement with a sugar daddy; a heroin habit that led to New Orleans trap houses and that she would kick only after the fatal overdose of her best friend; her own near-lethal overdoses and the deaths of still more friends from drugs and suicide; an emotionally explosive, tabloid-dominating romance with a figure she dubs “The Artist”; a whirlwind, short-lived marriage and her trials as a single parent striving to support her young son. The hotly anticipated book from ‘one of the all-time pop-culture greats’ ( New York magazine) that chronicles her shocking life and unyielding determination to not only survive but achieve her dreams. It won't be everyone's taste but I absolutely ate this up, I think Fox has an incredible talent and I hope she has longevity as an artist whose project is her whole life.With writing that is both eloquent and accessible, Fox recounts her turbulent path to cultural her parents’ volatile relationship that divided her childhood between Italy and New York City and left her largely raising herself; a possessive and abusive drug-dealing boyfriend whose torment continued even from within Rikers Island; her own trips to jail as well as to a psychiatric hospital; her work as a dominatrix that led to a complicated entanglement with a sugar daddy; a heroin habit that led to New Orleans trap houses and that she would kick only after the fatal overdose of her best friend; her own near-lethal overdoses and the deaths of still more friends from drugs and suicide; an emotionally explosive, tabloid-dominating romance with a figure she dubs “The Artist”; a whirlwind, short-lived marriage and her trials as a single parent striving to support her young son. Suddenly, more people than ever wanted to know about this New York–famous former dominatrix who also happened to be a devoted, latex-clad mother of a beautiful baby as well as an art girl who once used her own blood on canvas. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy( Your California Privacy Rights) and Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. So much happens to her that, at times, her memoir reads like a thriller: gangsters, kidnapping, prison, guns, sex and violence, told engagingly with reams of dialogue and a meticulous eye for detail.

As you can see from Symptomatic of a relationship gone sour I have definitely done my fair share of sinning, so I just want to recount my story and how I have come to terms with myself. Fox’s debut memoir spares no one, least of all herself, in its shocking tales…[An] amalgamation of soap opera, Mafia flick and A Star Is Born topped with a heaping of heroin. He tells her she is smart and charters her a jet to Miami and pisses against the back-alley wall of a nightclub before their first kiss while teenagers record with their phones. Though abuse and drug use are chapters in her life that come and go several times, there is one overarching theme that prevails and ties everything together: Fox’s female friendships.

Family and friendship, sex and death, violence and love, money and power, innocence and experience―it’s all here, in raw, remarkable and riveting detail. She missed her boyfriend so much that she bought a ticket back to New York and ran away from Italy to be with him. This isn't the type of celebrity memoir filled with frivolous name-drops and flimsy anecdotes; it's a revealing and often harrowing journey through the life of a person who has been reviled, adored and victimized--and also just happens to be recognizable. Family and friendship, sex and death, violence and love, money and power, innocence and experience-it's all here, in raw, remarkable and riveting detail. She talks a lot in the book about how often she has felt alone, but she has always been a girl’s girl, and now she’s somewhat of a role model to women and a gay icon, and even watching her press tour for this book she has been on stage with Madonna and doing panels alongside children’s entertainer Ms.