Analysis Of Secrets Of My Hollywood Life

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The plot of Secrets of my Hollywood Life by Jen Calonita is intriguing because it shows the reader the inside world of the Hollywood life. It makes us understand what we do not see on screen and how the lives of famous people are not always as glamorous as we thought. This novel is based Kaitlin Burke, a seventeen-year-old Hollywood superstar who has been on the same soap opera, Family Affair for the past twelve years of her life. She never has time to rest with constant interviews, other acting roles, and trips. The constant drama with a long lasting feud with her co-star Sky, a strict publicist and a mom who is more concerned about her fame than her daughters’, her life isn’t always so easy. Exhausted from all the fame, Kaitlin realizes that there is more to life than just being a famous actor, so she comes up with a plan to take a break from her Hollywood life, even if it could mean career suicide. She changes her name to Rachel Rogers and attends the same high school with her best friend Liz. She adjusts herself to a normal teenage life and ends up meeting a boy Austin who she ends up falling in love with. Just as her fantasy life as a normal teenager is starting to settle she’s faced with problems as rumors start to hit the tabloids and Kaitlin is forced to make a decision, either stay with her true friends and live a normal life or peruse her acting career in Hollywood.
Kaitlin Burke has been in the movie business since she’s been little and not only does she have great acting skills, but is also known for her beauty, which is why her career is lasting. With her natural, wavy honey colored hair that ends at her mid-back, her bright green eyes and her petite figure, she often makes it on the “Most Beautiful List...

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...sn’t happy living this famous life and that’d she be happier out of spotlight and living in as she would say the “real world” where she was free to be who she really is. By being a regular teenager, she knew that she would be able to make friends and feel comfortable with whom she was. She would find real friends who would actually care for her and people who she could really trust. Staying true to who you are should means living your life trying to please yourself and by becoming Rachel Rogers she was able to live effortlessly because there was no effort put trying to be someone she was not. She was able to finally be proud of who she was remember what a natural smile felt like. If she wasn’t able to stay true to herself she would of continued on living a miserable life and regretting the fact that there was a better one waiting for her outside the Hollywood world.

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