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Book Review of Traci Lords: Underneath It All

Traci Lords: Underneath It All
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This book was a really good and showed a whole side of Traci Lords that the media tends to overlook. I was shocked reading it to learn that she had only made all her "porn" when she was in her teens, which was when I was about 8 or 9 I think. It's sad because I've always know of her as "Porn Princess" too, yet it was before I was even old enough to know what porn really was. Yet throughout her whole life it's a title she's been trying to get away from, unsuccessfully.
I don't consider myself to be a judgmental person, yet I had always assumed Traci Lords made thousands of porn films, just from the way she is portrayed. It's odd when you find out that she doesn't and hasn't for many, many years.
Her story is also very sad. There are a lot of things that she went through that nobody should have to deal with and I can understand her story so well that I can see that really all she was doing was finding a way to get by in life, and unfortunately without guidance, she made some mistakes.