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Announcements and Introductions => Media Center => Topic started by: AgnesNitt on September 23, 2011, 02:41:23 PM

Title: Lucinda Ruh's Biography Due out
Post by: AgnesNitt on September 23, 2011, 02:41:23 PM

http://www.amazon.com/Frozen-Teardrop-Tragedy-Triumph-Skatings/dp/1590792130/ref=sr_1_20?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1316803038&sr=1-20

""Frozen Teardrop" is the autobiographical account of one of the most beloved and controversial personalities in the history of figure skating. In this straight-forward memoir, Lucinda Ruh takes her readers through the harsh and painful realities of the figure-skating world while exposing the never-before-released details of her own private pain and suffering which would ultimately turn this Guinness-listed international icon into a bed-ridden, suicidal, starved, agoraphobic and terrified young woman. "Frozen Teardrop" is a true-life tale of beauty, refinement, genius, and skill contrasted against the cut-throat starkness of world figure-skating competition in its bleakest, most tortuous, most mind-warping moments--as seen through the eyes of a developing young prodigy whose personal life would harbor its own menagerie of horrors, secrets, and personal violations." from Amazaon

Can't anybody have a nice time with their figure skating career?  I remember one bio where the skater got pica! Pica! OMG. Now what!

Title: Re: Lucinda Ruh's Biography Due out
Post by: drskater on December 01, 2011, 09:37:44 AM

Well, no pica but pretty much everything else. It's an amazing memoir. Ruh doesn't use names but you know who she is talking about and it's not good.

Check out Manleywoman's review:

http://www.manleywoman.com/book-review-lucinda-ruhs-frozen-teardrop/

Title: Re: Lucinda Ruh's Biography Due out
Post by: manleywoman on December 21, 2011, 11:48:52 AM

Thanks for the link to the review. :)

I just uploaded my podcast interview with her last night, if you want to hear her experiences in her own words: http://www.manleywoman.com