The Unbecoming: I Lost 345 Pounds Naturally Using 5 Simple Steps...Now You Can Have A Better Body And Life Too!

By Kitty Norton and Jack Norton

Emmy Award winning artist Kitty Norton found success while still in high school as a session vocalist at Prince's Paisley Park Studios, and was signed to a recording contract before she graduated. What looked to be a promising career in pop music was cut short by a debilitating car accident.

Bedridden for over a year, the former cheerleader and model had ballooned to 515 pounds.

Yes, 515 pounds.

How did this disabled, stay-at-home, self-employed, and depressed lady lose 345 pounds... completely naturally - without any gimmicks, surgeries, pills or fad diets?

This raw and inspiring memoir invites readers, while giving practical steps, to have a better body and life, too!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Mar 16, 2022
• ISBN: 9781458352156

Kitty Norton

Kitty Norton is an Emmy Award winning author of steamy romance stories. She’s also an audio artist creating spicy audios and audiobooks. She created a publishing and production company called Jack and Kitty After Dark with her best friend and soulmate Jack (who happens to also be her husband).Jack and Kitty are popular vloggers and enjoy sharing quirky videos of their everyday life together.Kitty is proudly bisexual and is a strong supporter of the LGBTQ+ community. She also volunteers her time at a local animal rescue shelter and with several environmental organizations.Kitty Norton lives with her girlfriend and husband. She enjoys animals, travel, raw vegan food, gardening, yoga, pilates, reading, making music and spending time in nature.

Book preview

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MY STORY

I've seen nothing of you,

until I've seen your scars.

For then I have seen the face of

that which you did not allow to break you.

(Reflection, Kitty Norton, Thieves Of Love)

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Well, this is the beginning of my book and I guess it makes the most sense to start with the beginning of my story. The question I get asked the most is if Kitty is my real name. It is. I was named after the country singer Kitty Wells. My family is from Jamaica and for some reason country music is very popular there (we're known for reggae, but local Jamaicans love country music). Both Charlie Pride and Kitty Wells are quite beloved on my island. So, yes, my real name is Kitty. And I have an uncle named Bunny. No, seriously, I do! My uncle is Bunny Wailer - who played with Bob Marley and the Wailers. Music is in my blood.

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I grew up spending time going between Jamaica and Minnesota. Why my mother moved from Kingston to Minneapolis, I will never understand! Realize, I love Minnesota, but it's colder than Moscow, y'all! I guess she must have wanted a drastic change from the tropical temps of the Jamaican jungles? Either way, writing this reminds me that I'll have to ask her what she was thinking, moving to the arctic tundra of the Twin Cities.

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Seriously though, I loved growing up in Minneapolis and Jamaica, the difference between both cultures was profound, but what united these two unique places was music. With my uncle being in reggae, I couldn't escape the laid back vibes of Jamaica's most famous musical export. I was raised in a tiny country church outside of Kingston and grew up singing gospel there. So reggae and gospel was hugely influential in my development. Of course, spending time in Minnesota means you must love both Bob Dylan and Prince - and I do love both. They are incredibly gifted songwriters and performers. As a teenager, it was the thrill of a lifetime to start working as a session background vocalist at Prince's Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassen, Minnesota. I sang on a lot of demo recordings there, and also did backup vocals on several recordings for R&B acts that worked at Paisley. It was a magical time in the Twin Cities.

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I knew I wanted to be a musician since I was three years old, that's when I started taking piano lessons. The Christmas before that, when I was just two, my parents got me a toy xylophone which I carried with me everywhere. I would play little tunes all day long and probably drove my entire family completely bonkers! But thankfully, they supported my love of music and enrolled me in piano lessons at a very young age. The sweet old lady that taught me piano smelled like gingerbread and she always wore a blue and yellow sweatshirt that said Uff-da is Swedish for hello. She had a book on Ole & Lena and started each piano lesson with a joke I wasn't old enough to understand. Lessons always ended with freshly baked, warm butter cookies and a big glass of milk.

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That was the start of my downfall, y'all.

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If there's one thing I love as much as music - it's freshly baked, warm butter cookies made by sweet old Swedish ladies!

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But more on that later.

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So my childhood was full of music, and I was all too happy to lock myself in my room and practice keyboard, singing along with the kids cartoon Jem And The Holograms on my little TV, and try to learn to yodel by watching The Sound Of Music over and over and over again. I must have been one weird little kid: brown with an insanely curly fro, speaking Jamaican patois and trying to yodel like Julie Andrews while having the popstar swag of my pink haired hero Jerrica Jem Benton.

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I was about six years old when I first heard Whitney Houston's debut album. That changed my life forever. I knew I had to be a singer, for the rest of my life that would be my passion. By the time I was ten or eleven, I discovered Mariah Carey and that only solidified my decision.

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I started to attend music business expos when I was ten years old, and I bartered to have my Jamaican uncle make me some business cards in exchange for me singing at his Fourth of July BBQ. Thinking back on it, I probably wouldn't have been paid for my impromptu picnic performance, but I think he was just being nice and trying to support my entrepreneurial endeavors in the world of music.

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I started to carry a planner and had business cards before I started middle school! What a nerd, I know! LOL. But, that's just how God made me. I was always a bit on the chubby side - if you grew up in a Jamaican family, you'd be chubby too. The food is just too good! A lot of people don't realize it, but