Isabella Reynolds has the perfect life…or does she? Maybe there is a grand illusion to glamour. Fake Perfect Me is a glorious dance that will tickle your senses.
"The thing about you, Reynolds, is you think you have to be everyone's perfect something—the perfect girlfriend, the perfect employee, the perfect daughter, the perfect friend. You put this pressure on yourself that makes you a different someone—different for everyone, this person you thought they need or want you to be." So says Isabella Reynolds' best friend, Pia, at their biweekly dinner at Nobu 57. And although Isabella can't admit it to Pia, "perfect" Isabella knows her friend is right.
Isabella seems to have it all—the former Southern belle with big dreams is the head of her own skin care company and is the self-proclaimed queen of all things beautiful in New York City. Then her world comes crashing down, and she is stripped of everything she loves—her man, the Italian litigator "Saint" Santo; the loss of her company; and the death of her beloved dog, Potato. With her penchant for bingeing and purging, how can she turn her life around when she still feels the need to maintain her "perfect" façade?
Fake Perfect Me, author Cari Kamm's heart-warming—and often heart-wrenching—tale of a successful New Yorker and her inner circle, offers an inside look at a world of excess. Isabella Reynolds may seem unlike anyone you've ever known, but at her core, she's instantly recognizable. Her trials and tribulations, her ups and downs, are much the same as anyone's. Her world may have a high price tag, but its true value comes from its losses and lesson…to love one's self.