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Fierce- Book Review

Posted in Literature | 13 January 2012 - 10:53am

I have just finished reading Fierce, the autobiography of Kelly Osbourne, and I have to say that it is one of the best books I have read to date. In it, Kelly talks openly and honestly about growing up with a Father who was one of the most famous addicts on the British rock music circuit, and the stigma that therefore came with ‘being an Osbourne’. She explains how, when the family moved to Los Angeles in 2001, it was the first time that she became aware how famous her Father was, and that this by right, made her a celebrity herself. From the age of fourteen, she attended parties which were held in the biggest clubs in L.A and this special treatment, led to Kelly becoming an addict herself, when she was offered liquid Vicodin at a party, this was to be Kelly’s downfall, and in-between 2004 and 2007, she faced three stints in rehab to try and beat the addiction. Her third and final stint in rehab was successful, and led her to make the decision to leave behind the ‘L.A lifestyle’, and make a new life for herself in London. She explains how the move to London, allowed her to stand on her own two feet for the first time, and shed the label of ‘being an Osbourne’. She credits this as being the key to the start of her new independent, healthy, drug free life, and she is now famous in her own right as an occasional DJ on Radio 1, and has presented at both London and New York Fashion Weeks. I think it would be fair to say that Kelly has turned her life around, and is looking to a bright future.

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Amy Miller

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