Sexy Doesn't Have a Dress Size : Lessons in Love - Softcover

Brown, Parry A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 096665031X ISBN 13: 9780966650310

Publisher: Kolorscope Pub, 2000

Synopsis

Like a fire truck's blaring siren on a 9-1-1 call, Madison Avenue screams sexy only comes in a size six. Today, over 50% of American women wear a size 14 or larger; yet, it often seems that the entire world is oriented around the size 2 model. Sexy Doesn't Have a Dress SizeLessons in Love has refuted this myth and empowers women of all sizes to look inside themselves, instead of on the dress tag, to find their self worth.

Parry EbonySatin' Brown, an author and African American woman of size, gives an account of her battles with size acceptance and eventually self acceptance and how she now travels the country giving her Sistahgurlfriends insight and hope. Parry opens her seminars with such one-liners as; "If my worth is measured by the digits that are displayed on the scale then I must be worth my weight in gold!"

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About the Author

As a woman of size and color, she has never let the prejudice of those around her impede her progress. When she was told at age fourteen that she would never make it in the all white offices of an insurance company, she was determined to prove them wrong. Madison Avenue shouted loud and clear that a woman who sports a size twenty-four couldn't be considered sexy. She retorted, You talkin' to me?! As a motivational speaker she encourages women of all sizes and colors to look inside themselves for their worth. Her Sexy Doesn't Have a Dress Size seminar series packs the house from coast to coast.

Parry's debut novel, The Shirt Off His Back, has been on the Dallas Morning News Best Sellers List since June 13, 1999 reaching the number one spot four times. This novel also made the prestigious Blackboard Best Sellers list in November and December 1999, as well as January, March and April 2000. Ms. Brown's first non-fiction work is scheduled for release in early April. Sexy Doesn't Have a Dress Size...Lessons in Love is candid look at how we need to learn to love ourselves where we are right here, right now. She has started her second novel Sittin' On The Front Pew, an entertaining look at all of the drama that takes place behind the scenes of an African American funeral. Ms. Brown most recently signed a contract with Random House Publishing, Inc. Parry can be heard weekday mornings as co-producer and host of the talk radio show Single Black Mom Parenting Magazine-OnAir on WATB 1420AM heard in Gwinnette, Clayton, DeKalb, and Fulton counties, Georgia. She will also be producer and host of the upcoming cable TV show Turning Leaves, an author showcase and book review program, seen in Southern California.

Prior to her writing/speaking career Parry was President of an accounting and database programming firm. She is currently President/CEO of ShanKrys Publishing, Inc. and Chairperson/Founder of Los Angeles Ebony Online People a three year old non-profit organization dedicated to placing Internet ready computers in the homes of deserving, yet economically challenged, young people.

Parry was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, raised in Baltimore, Maryland and has lived in the greater Los Angeles area since the early 70's. She is happily divorced, mother of two and grandmother of two.

Review

"Finally, permission for ALL women to be sexy" -- Dr. Rosie Milligan, Milligan Books

... deals with the issues of who we are as full-figured women and teaches us the importance of self acceptance. -- Belle Magazine

AT LAST, someone bold enough to say it out loud! Sexiness comes in all sizes! -- Skraps Magazine

About this edition

• Publisher: Kolorscope Pub
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 096665031X
• ISBN 13: 9780966650310
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 116