The Silicone Diaries is a full, frank and fierce exploration of the contradictions associated with the quest for beauty, balanced by an intimate and spiritual account of Arsenault’s adventures in plastic surgery. According to Arsenault, "Beauty is something some women are lucky to be born with. Beauty is supposed to be natural, but if you weren't lucky enough to be born with it then you're called superficial for pursuing it. "This is the variable for her exploration, as she seeks to define the perceived difference between "inner and outer beauty, realness and fakeness." Along the way, Arsenault proves an engaging raconteur chronicling everything from life as a web cam girl to black market injections, and a "Crying Game-style" collision with rocker Tommy Lee. 

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