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The Indecipherable Autobiography
Here is a little good news for all you book-worms out there: Fantasia Barrino, the winner of American Idol Season 3, is releasing a book today! Entitled “Life is Not a Fairy Tale,” Fantasia tells her entire life story - from struggle to success
“The more people say you can’t, the more you can. The more they talk negatively, the more you fight. You have to think about bettering your life and go after it. I don’t care what you got to do. You only have one life to live, so do your thing.” -Life is Not a Fairy Tale
In this captivating autobiography, Fantasia reveals for the first time that she is illiterate - a secret not even American Idol producers knew.
So if she is illiterate, who wrote the book?
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i had no idea.
she dictated it to a freelance writer.
I figured so much. I just thought it to be funny, considering it is probably a revised version of her life just from having a third party actually compose it.
i’m wondering if you can even consider it an autobiography, seeing as how she’s not actually writing it. i suppose that if she is dictating it word for word, it would be…but if she’s illiterate…ahh forget it. i’ll just let this be one of the things that make me go “hmm..”
Well, Fantasia is going back to school. Perhaps it would have been a greater accomplishment to become literate and then write a book. She is only like 21, I don’t see why she needed to get an (auto)biography out now. Although I also don’t see why this subject matters to me at all.
Rather than try and figure out why she wrote an autobiography, at such an early age, we should be proud of her and her accomplishment at such an early age. The fact that she opened up about her life struggles may benefit someone else out there. Who may be going through some of the same issues and may not have thought certain things were possible. But by seeing how someone like Fantasia conquered her disability and made something of her life could inspire and effect someone else’s life. People need to hear about things like this to let them know that they are not alone and that through believing in themselves and being inspired by others that any thing is possible.