Elle is a woman who looks flawless and as if she has self-confidence. To hear her tell her story about how she made her journey from modelling jobs and why it’s important to trust your own instincts to guide you is good advice. I highly recommend this.

I’m not really a fan of rating a memoir, I neither loved nor loathed Elle, so it’s a middle of the road 3 🌟

I found the beginning of the book to be interesting, learning of Elle’s early life and her breakthrough into the modelling business and her entrepreneurial spirit.

I have to admit to not having known much about her anyway, but I was really surprised to learn that she had started in so many movies, I knew little of her philanthropy either, so this was also interesting.

I really don’t want to disparage her, or anyone on a journey of recovery but the minute the 12 steps came out I lost a bit of interest, good for her on her sobriety it’s fantastic, but it is very much the same story as you’ll hear from anyone who has completed the programme. It’s not a bad thing, I’ve simply heard it so many times.

In regards to Elle’s holistic approach to life, and controversially cancer, this could’ve been explained in a lot more detail, so much as to say while I very much believe everyone has the right to make their own choices, it was very vague, and I can see why people were up in arms about it. In this regard there was a lot of added fluff and pretty words that you’ll read from any wellness guru, again, not a bad thing just everything I’ve heard before, but there were also a lot of missing facts/instructions.

It’s always nice to know that someone has found inner peace and happiness, for that I’m glad, the narration by Elle herself was nice, but the music between chapters became tiresome, especially when she was ending/beginning and struggling to be heard over it.

My huge gratitude to W F Howes LTD via NetGalley for the opportunity to review this audiobook 🎧