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Ravishing: A Memoir
By Aléna Guest
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In 1966, at the age of 17, an unholy fusion of DNA and steroids reverses Alena Johnston's anorexia and inflates her into a 5'10" hourglass. Her transformation spurs the offer of a plum part on a TV show, which leads to more early successes in Hollywood. At 23, she is cast as the Amazon queen, Antiope, in The War Goddess, a sword and sandal epic shot in Rome.
By day, portraying the sovereign of the Amazons, Alena dominates the males around her. By night she's grabbed in elevators, below the table in restaurants and in dressing rooms. Beyond those violations, she is drugged and raped by a renowned director, whose wife had been savagely murdered five years earlier.
Alena escapes, but concludes that the sins committed by this cinematic genius will be forgiven and she'll be written off as mere collateral damage. She runs home to her family for support. Yet the person she trusts the most, her mother, betrays her.
Wanting a different life, she steps away from the limelight to marry a Navy SEAL. But the light at the end of the tunnel is actually the blinding light of an oncoming train.
Hell bent to find a means to recover from emotional and physical abuse, Alena enlists the help of a Salvadoran Shaman. And inspired by a bodhisattva, she discovers her calling as a hypnotherapist. The arduous journey toward her liberation grants Alena a way to help others heal and a remarkable story to tell, in Ravishing.
By day, portraying the sovereign of the Amazons, Alena dominates the males around her. By night she's grabbed in elevators, below the table in restaurants and in dressing rooms. Beyond those violations, she is drugged and raped by a renowned director, whose wife had been savagely murdered five years earlier.
Alena escapes, but concludes that the sins committed by this cinematic genius will be forgiven and she'll be written off as mere collateral damage. She runs home to her family for support. Yet the person she trusts the most, her mother, betrays her.
Wanting a different life, she steps away from the limelight to marry a Navy SEAL. But the light at the end of the tunnel is actually the blinding light of an oncoming train.
Hell bent to find a means to recover from emotional and physical abuse, Alena enlists the help of a Salvadoran Shaman. And inspired by a bodhisattva, she discovers her calling as a hypnotherapist. The arduous journey toward her liberation grants Alena a way to help others heal and a remarkable story to tell, in Ravishing.
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