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By eighteen years old, Cameron Russell earned more money than her mother had in her entire life. It’s a lot easier to succeed when you’re beautiful. A supermodel for nearly two decades, Cameron reflects on the real impact of romanticising and monetising female beauty. She charts hundreds of small humiliations: getting her period in a white bikini, the photographer who asks her to undress in front of everyone, people joking “you’re legal now”. But Cameron knows she is as much an accomplice as she is a victim. This is her attempt at making sense of the realities behind an industry that exploits millions and makes trillions.

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'A unique and honest perspective on the fashion industry... Cameron doesn’t just hold the door open for more voices from within fashion, she makes a compelling argument as to why they must be heard.' —Christy Turlington 'A shocking-yet-familiar story of a girl working an industry that runs on abuses of sex, money and beauty. Thanks to Russell’s forceful gaze, it’s a book of real power.' —Stylist, BEST NON-FICTION BOOKS OF 2024 'Russell’s voice is steady and compelling throughout, offering young women, especially, a thoughtful and powerful way through.' —Peggy Orenstein, author of Girls and Sex 'A gripping tour of a twenty-year modeling career. In visceral and relatable storytelling Cameron Russell confirms our worst fears about the industry and then topples them to reveal hope, humanity, and solidarity. She affirms that fashion can be a space and a tool for liberation. I am grateful for this tender and powerful book.' —Geena Rocero, model and author of Horse Barbie 'Unforgettable... Fiercely intellectual, deeply vulnerable, and unapologetically honest, Russell reads through the layers of gender, race, capital, and exploitation in the fashion industry.' —Imani Perry, author of South to America 'I don’t know of a more blistering dismantling of what makes a so-called fashion and modeling industry.' —Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy 'A poignant and expertly crafted memoir, How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone tells the story of a woman finding her power and using it to uplift others—from workers’ rights to climate justice. This book holds lessons for us all.' —Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, co-founder of Urban Ocean Lab and the All We Can Save Project

'How To Make Herself Agreeable To Anyone offers a unique and honest perspective on the fashion industry. Through the story of her journey of establishing her boundaries and paving a path to activism, Cameron doesn’t just hold the door open for more voices from within fashion, she makes a compelling argument as to why they must be heard.'—Christy Turlington 'In an image-obsessed era that reduces women to—or encourages us to reduce ourselves to—our bodies, Cameron Russell’s How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone is both a mirror and a window. Her struggle to maintain her agency is so deeply familiar, while her experience in an industry that often exploits and objectifies its workers in the name of 'beauty' ultimately affects us all. Russell’s voice is steady and compelling throughout, offering young women, especially, a thoughtful and powerful way through.'—Peggy Orenstein, author of Girls and Sex

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Cameron Russell has spent nearly twenty years working as a model. She’s the cofounder and one of the lead organisers of Model Mafia, striving for a more equitable, just, and sustainable industry and world and the recipient of the 2018 Harper’s Bazaar Women of the Year Award. She has a degree from Columbia University in economics and political science.

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