"I believe this book is going to become a model for stardom studies organized around a cultural theory. Its focus on supposedly diverse star bodies is a wonderful and original idea, especially in its development of the cultural narratives developed to make these bodies palatable. Also original is the linking together of stars whose back stories and celebrity are very different, but who are actually similar in their cultural configurations and meanings." -- Linda Mizejewski, Ohio State University, author of Pretty/Funny: Women Comedians and Body Politics