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Eyebags and Dimples: An Autobiography

by HENNA , Bonnie

4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 · rating details · 11 ratings · 4 reviews

In this beautifully written work, Bonnie makes a remarkable transition from actress to author with ease and flair. Eyebags & Dimples is Bonnie’s shockingly naked account of how her depression almost robbed her of her shine and how she continues to fight this darkness. In this searing, unflinchingly honest, book Bonnie recounts the intricate journey that her life has ta ...more

Kindle Edition , 250 pages

Published August 30th 2013 by Jacana Media

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Feb 09, 2015 Siyamthanda Skota rated it 3 of 5 stars

One of the things that make autobiographies stand out from memoirs and biographies is that subjects are expected to reveal all. Whether it’s interesting or drab, good or bad, it doesn’t matter readers just want all the details to come out in an autobiography. And that’s exactly what Eyebags and Dimples (An autobiography) does. Described as “Bonnie’s shockingly naked account of how her depression almost robbed her of her shine and how she continues to fight this darkness” the book is indeed a nak One of the things that make autobiographies stand out from memoirs and biographies is that subjects are expected to reveal all. Whether it’s interesting or drab, good or bad, it doesn’t matter readers just want all the details to come out in an autobiography. And that’s exactly what Eyebags and Dimples (An autobiography) does. Described as “Bonnie’s shockingly naked account of how her depression almost robbed her of her shine and how she continues to fight this darkness” the book is indeed a naked account of the short life she’s lived up to so far.
Bonnie Henna is well known for being a child star back in the days (as a TV presenter) and a well established actress. From the age of 13 years she managed to pull a happy face on our TV screens as if all was well back home even though she came from a very troubled and unhappy household. But all was actually not well. She has always been followed by darkness right from her childhood up to her adult life. Moving to America to try and pursue her acting career in Hollywood, Bonnie terribly fails to make it into being a “star” she left South Africa hoping to become. As things don’t work out the way she expected them, profound depression settles into her and she’s pushed closer to the edge. But luckily she’s diagnosed on time with clinical depression before falling and losing herself completely.
It’s almost difficult to believe that she wrote the book herself because it is so well written. And I don’t mean that in a patronizing way, please. What I am trying to say is that it is not quite common to find TV stars moving from doing their TV work to writing their stories in such a compelling manner and with such ease. Each and every chapter in Bonnie Henna’s book is totally absorbing and almost leaves a lump in one’s throat.
In the book Bonnie doesn’t blame anyone for her “illness” but rather asks this fundamental question: Having endured the most heart wrenching and depressing period of your life, how do you then own your story and move forward peacefully when you finally find out what the problem is? And as much as Eyebags and Dimples is not a self-help book, anyone with a troubled soul can use Bonnie Henna’s story to acknowledge their pain, deal with it and move on.
The way her mother treated her as a child is horrifying and one gets the feeling when she wrote certain parts (if not the entire book) of the book she was in absolute tears. The stories of abused children are quite common in our societies and even though one is vividly aware of such stories Bonnie Henna's story will still make you shudder with utter horror. The experience is profoundly excruciating.
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Jul 10, 2015 Lucratia rated it 3 of 5 stars

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This really is a beautifully written book. I'm not much of an autobiography reader, most seem too boring and forced to me...but Bonnie told her life story in an easy, unassuming and honest manner. It really is amazing to know that she wrote this herself...I mean, how brilliant is it that people are multi talented in life!

Her life story( well, up to the point she writes the book) is marred with a lot of sadness. Although I don't think that her life was completely sad ( and I'm glad this is not th This really is a beautifully written book. I'm not much of an autobiography reader, most seem too boring and forced to me...but Bonnie told her life story in an easy, unassuming and honest manner. It really is amazing to know that she wrote this herself...I mean, how brilliant is it that people are multi talented in life!

Her life story( well, up to the point she writes the book) is marred with a lot of sadness. Although I don't think that her life was completely sad ( and I'm glad this is not the case)...it certainly was not a smooth journey for her. Most of us remember our childhood with fondness and love, but Bonnie endured so much and dealt with too much at too young an age. When she was auditioning for tv shows, I was outside skipping rope or something equally un impressing and yet I would never trade it for anything! Her adult life did not seem to want to give her a break either...from the failed Hollywood dream to the depression, adulthood was equally brutal.

But what I love the most about how she wrote the book, is that it tells me a lot about her spirit. She loved, she endured hardship, she had some happiness and she continues in the struggle that is life...in all of it, she does not blame anyone, she does not inspire sympathy or even ask for it in the reader, she's unassuming ( can't say this enough especially considering that she was a celebrity before writing the book) and she is very strong! She has a good head on her shoulder, is anchored through her spiritual beliefs and still has hope for a good future...what more can one ask for? Live on Bonnie, keep that beautiful dimpled head up and when it gets too much as it sometimes does in this things called life...read your own book with fresh eyes to remind yourself where you have been, what you have ensured and conquered and remember that, that person, the person with that much strength, faith and hope is you...and that the well from which you get that strength and courage to continue...it never runs dry!!! ...more

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Aug 16, 2015 Yolanda rated it 3 of 5 stars

I was a beautiful read

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