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When Beauty Becomes a Mistake
Modern-day heroine Janey Wilcox is a lingerie model whose reach often exceeds her grasp, and whose new-found success has gone to her head. As we follow Janey's adventures, Bushnell draws us into a seemingly glamorous world of $100,000 cars, hunky polo players and media moguls, Fifth Avenue apartments, and relationships whose hidden agendas are detectable only by the socially astute. But just as Janey enters this world of too much money and too few morals, unseen forces conspire to bring her down, forcing her to reconsider love and friendship--and how far she's really willing to go for her dreams
"Pretty girls were a category unto themselves, she thought, and sometimes it was better not to be pretty. Pretty girls were always told that their looks would make them special, that good looks meant that something marvelous was waiting just around the corner, but so often that marvelous thing was only a pair of sodden shoes you couldn't afford to begin with."
This is the word came from Janey, the heroine of the novel Trading UP, they are her inertial monologue. Janey was a world-famous super model. She was a contract model of Victoria Secret. She was considered a super model with an angel's face and an evil's figure. Almost all the men wanted to be her special one, however, she was considered beautiful but only a simply, stupid woman. When Janey didn't gain so much reputation, she had an affair with a...
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