Download PDF by Lisa Jakub: You Look Like That Girl: A Child Actor Stops Pretending and

By Lisa Jakub

ISBN-10: 0825307465

ISBN-13: 9780825307461

on the age of 22, Lisa Jakub had what she used to be purported to wish: she used to be a operating actor in la. She had greater than 40 video clips and television indicates to her identify, she have been in blockbusters like Mrs. Doubtfire and Independence Day, she walked the purple carpet and lived in the home she got whilst she used to be fifteen.

But anything used to be lacking.
Passion. objective. Happiness.
Lisa have been operating because the age of 4, after a guy approached her mom and dad at a farmer's industry and requested her to audition for a advertisement. that opportunity stumble upon dictated the subsequent eighteen years of her unusual-- and often awkward--life. She met Princess Diana... and virtually fell on her whereas trying to curtsy. She filmed in intriguing locations... and her highschool requested her to not get back. She went to fancy parties... and received type of abducted that one time. good fortune was once complicated.

Making videos, touring the realm, and assembly fascinating humans used to be enjoyable for some time, yet Lisa ultimately discovered she was once residing a lifestyles in accordance with momentum and definitions of luck that weren't her personal. She battled critical nervousness and panic assaults whereas feeling like she used to be residing an individual else's dream. no longer eager to turn into a toddler actor stereotype, Lisa retired from appearing and left L.A. looking for a direction that felt extra genuine to her.

In this humorous and insightful ebook, Lisa chronicles the adventures of transforming into up within the movie and her tough choice to depart in the back of the single existence she had ever recognized, to envision her priorities, and write the script for her personal lifestyles. She explores the common query all of us ask ourselves: what do i would like to be while I develop up?

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