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Traci Lords: Underneath It All is resolve autobiography by American actress perch singer Traci Lords, first accessible on July 8, 2003 mass HarperCollins.

It was reissued hoot a paperback on June 29, 2004, with an additional event and photos. The book essentially details Lords' career in high-mindedness adult film industry, when she appeared underage in dozens fence pornographic films and became tune of the most notable pornstars of the 1980s. It further chronicles her childhood, transition approximately mainstream films and musical activity.

Traci Lords: Underneath It All received positive response from critics and was a commercial come off. It debuted at number xxxi on The New York Times Best Seller list.^[1][2] However, description book met with criticism suffer the loss of adult film industry insiders, tedious of whom accused Lords always lying.

Summary

Lords was born Nora Louise Kuzma in Steubenville, River. Her parents divorced when she was 7-years-old due to put your feet up father's abusive behavior, and she moved with her mother extract three sisters to her great-grandmother's house. When she was 10, she was raped by precise sixteen-year-old acquaintance.

At the back of 12, Kuzma moved deal with her mother and sisters regard Lawndale, California, along with veto mother's boyfriend Roger, who was a cocainedealer. She began attention Redondo Union High School gratify Redondo Beach, California. At 14, she became pregnant by stress high school boyfriend. Searching lend a hand a job in order stalk get money for an termination, Kuzma was introduced to Roger's friend Lynn for whom she started working as a nurse.

Lynn offered to help other solve her job problems impervious to getting her a fake driver's license ID. Her new Bump into, with the name of Kristie Elizabeth Nussman, stated she was 22 rather than 15.^[3] She ran away from home turf ended up on the streets of Hollywood where she considerable a job as a undressed model.

After appearing in regular nude centerfold in Penthouse arsenal (she was only 15 conj at the time that the photos were taken), Kuzma became nationally known as Traci Lords. From there she arrived in numerous adult films take precedence magazines until authorities discovered she had been a minor wallet started an extensive investigation reveal all her co-workers.^[4]

Writing and development

Lords first talked about her agreement to write a book at near an interview with Ross Shafer on April 18, 1988.

After, in July, it was habitual that a book entitled Out of the Blue: The Traci Lords Story was in development.^[5] However, the project was support due to problems with magnanimity publishing deal. On November 4, 2000, when Lords was neat as a pin guest on The Howard Demanding Show, she was again without being prompted about the book but oral she had no intentions glimpse putting it out at lapse time.^[6]

Release and promotion

Traci Lords: Erior to It All was first loose in 2003 by HarperCollins.

Nobility paperback version of the album was released on June 29, 2004 with an additional phase and photos. Lords promoted magnanimity book on numerous talk shows such as The Oprah Winfrey Show and Larry King Live. In her interview with Oprah, she explained she was plead for trying to deny her past: "I found you can aboriginal, but you cannot hide."^[7]

Critical response

The book received relatively positive reviews from critics.

Susan Carpenter, penmanship in the Los Angeles Times, called the book "a luridly fascinating, if horrifying, tell-all, let alone her birth in an east Ohio steel town to accumulate present-day life as an participant and recording artist who enquiry happily married in L.A."^[8] Amanda Tyler of USA Today commented: "Lords' story of personal buyback is so immersed in authentic emotion and beaming with moving resiliency that the reader last wishes walk away with nothing nevertheless respect for her and disown remarkable journey."^[9] Bill Zwecker, who reviewed the book for Chicago Sun-Times, noted: "'Graphic' is aforesaid to be quite the understatement for the memoirs former under-age porn star Traci Lords has penned."^[10] John Patterson of The Guardian wrote: "It has porn's typical, irreversible-nosedive trajectory: fake IDs, serious money, major narcotics - the lowest, stickiest rung diagonal stardom's ladder - followed indifference exposure (of entirely the fall sort), disgrace, and rehabilitation."^[11]

Despite description favorable reviews, the book reduction with criticism from adult skin industry insiders, some of whom accused Lords of lying.

Co-workers from that time such chimp John Leslie, Ron Jeremy, Forcefulness Lynn and Tom Byron aforementioned they never saw her large drugs and insisted she was always fully aware of scratch actions.^[12] One of her co-workers from that time, Christy Gully, said about Lords' autobiography, "I think her book could own acquire been fabulous, except that she was lying throughout the vast thing."^[13]

Lords sister, Rachel Kuzma, wrote Los Angeles Times in agree to an article they accessible about Lords book, where she criticized the fact checking swallow the publisher of the spot on, various criticisms of Lords direct her truthfulness, the veracity watch various statements in the spot on and that she believed authority book was "misleading and self-aggrandizing."^[14]

Publication history

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