Summary
Body Drama is a completely honest book about how actual female bodies look, smell, change and behave. Nancy Redd, former Miss Virgina, works with a leading adolescent health physician to answer all of those embarrassing questions that young women have, as well as dispel the myths of a perfect female body as paraded by the current media.
Critical Evaluation
Body Drama gives young women graphic, no-nonsense answers about their bodies with medical substantiation and actual photographs of different women and their different bodies. The book offers down-to-earth advice to debunk the myths, reassurances to the issues young women have about their bodies, as well as a lot of fun and informative facts to help young women combat the media's campaign to make them ashamed of their body. Grown women will wish they had this book when they were adolescents.
Reader's Annotation
A fun and informative book chock full of facts and actual photographs celebrate the differences in women's bodies and answer those all-too-embarrassing questions.
About the Author
Nancy Redd is a Harvard graduate, a former Miss Virginia, and the winner of the 2004 Miss America's swim suit competition. With being named one of America's top-ten women most likely to succeed at anything by Glamour Magazine and her degree in Woman Studies, she continues to encourage women of all ages with her visits on ABC's Good Morning America, CBS's The Early Edition, NBC's Today Show, Oprah, CNN, NPR PBS and many more, as well as her work on the new Dove soap campaign and Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People for Teen Girls. Redd also contributes to CosmoGIRL!, American Cheerleader, Fitness and several other magazines.
Redd grew up in Southern Virgina and now lives in Los Angeles with her actor husband, Rupack Ginn.
Genre
Non-fiction
Anatomy and Health
Challenges
Explicit photography of female anatomy
Biology: anatomy
Booktalking Ideas
Is there a question you're too embarrassed to even ask your doctor about your body…
Challenges
Sexual Content
Graphic Images
Awards
NAACP Image Award Nominee
Reading Level/Interest Age
Ages 14+
Why I included this title...
Highly recommended by a mom of a young woman.
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