“Hyde is bright and engaging, with a novelist’s gift for depicting social nuance with precision and wit.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer

“The riddle of beauty is rarely as well articulated as it is here. There are plenty of reasons to recommend this book: the  biggest is its Zen-like quality. Where I expected an arc of insecurity to security, there was a cyclic tale of relationship dynamics, liberations co-existing with expectations, mixed responses from friends and cultural pressures….” —The New Inquiry

“Hyde chooses to explore the personal, rather than institutional effects of the “female body as advertising medium”….the memoir benefits from time, and the digestion of lessons learned… She offers reasoned, measured and manageable changes rather than reactionary ones, allowing the book to reasonably dissect the airbrushed nation…” —The National Post (Canada)

“This is not a book about battling the celebrities who tout expensive beauty treatments or advertisements with scantily-clad, heavily-airbrushed beauties. Instead, it is a book about a hard-fought and seemingly interminable battle against one’s own ingrained notions of beauty.”

—Sacramento/San Francisco Book Review

“Read this book if you, too, have a nagging inner voice that wants to tell you how you should feel about your own beauty.”

—-Blisstree Bookshelf