'it might make you see her from a different perspective or see other people from a different perspective maybe'
While I was working on this book a few of my friends suggested that I might want to mind my Ps and Qs; that I might want to tone down a few of the harsher facts about my past - but I just don't see the point in that. If you're gonna tell it, girl, tell it! I am who I am, and if somebody is going to judge me then I'd like them to judge me on the truth. I'd like them to decide whether they like me based on the facts, not on stories they've read in gossip magazine's, or hearsay, or a watered-down version of events. I don't want to sugercoat my story, and it would be impossible to do so.
So here it is in a nutshell: Real and raw. Honest.
I love autobiographies! They're one of my favourite kind of books. I love reading how people's lives were before they became famous and how their lives are after they become famous and how they cope.
If I'm being honest, Tulisa's autobiography is really sad. Tulisa had such a miserable childhood. She was in many abusive relationships, she made some bad mistakes that she mentions in the book, her uncle died of a heart attack at a young age only a few months/weeks after N-Dubz had just started to get big, Tulisa's Mum has an illness that meant she got stressed out a lot and some times started arguments randomly and sometimes even got violent, Tulisa was drinking and doing drugs at the age of 12, and her Mum was taken to the hospital because of her illness quite regularly so that was hard on Tulisa.
I have to admit that I admire Tulisa's courage and honesty. Her courage to continue doing all this amazing stuff that she does, it must be really hard to deal with what happened in her past, especially when you have people judging you all the time and newspapers writing bad articles about you. And her honesty in this book is just AMAZING! I would be to scared to tell everybody all of that stuff and publish it in a book where anybody can read it and judge her good or bad! I can't imagine what horrible things some people would have said about all of that, she must have had some people make horrible comments.
Even if you're not a Tulisa fan I would suggest reading Honest just to understand some of the stuff people like Tulisa have to go through from a young age. If you were expecting a joyful autobiography about her glamorous pop star life I can tell you now that is not what you will find in this book. You will find the incredibly sad and upsetting childhood of Tulisa Contostavlos but it might make you see her from a different perspective or see other people from a different perspective maybe. Honest is a really miserable and upsetting book but as well as being that it also makes you happy, it makes you smile, it makes you laugh, it makes you sad to think that one person can go through all of that, and it makes you want to cry for hundreds or different reasons. I really do suggest this book. 5 stars, 12+
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