Belle Burden

And it was really interesting to actually hear my words and to read them.

And what interested me the most was I only broke down once, even though this is an emotional, raw book.

I broke down once and it was in talking about my father dying, not about anything about my marriage, which interested me because it made me think, okay, maybe that loss is really just much deeper.

And that the things that have felt so challenging in the last five years are things that I'm really moving beyond.

Well, what's interesting actually is I do have a family where people were photographed and very social.

Both my grandmother, who was photographed for being a very fashionable, stylish person, and my mother and my father when they got married very young and they were very social in New York.

I was never like that.

I have never been particularly interested in clothes.

I'm very shy.

I'm very introverted.

I really prefer being home.

I hate talking on the phone.

I always say they were on the best dressed list and it ended with me.

There was no chance of that.

So I've always been a very private person.

So this is very surprising to people, including myself, that I...

have been willing, have I wanted to tell the story.

Even more than that, it felt like just imperative to me.

Like I couldn't go on unless I was honest about what was happening to me.

So this is all the spotlight.