Supermodel Elle Macpherson’s much-hyped memoirs failed to take the world by storm.
Despite a flurry of headlines over the past week, Elle: Life, Lessons, and Learning to Trust Yourself has failed to resonate with the public according to new sales figures.
The 60-year-old artist’s memoir failed to crack the top ten audiobooks in Australia just over a week after its release.
Australian audiobook provider Audible Australia The book, read by Macpherson herself, currently sits at a dismal 14th on her list of the 100 audiobooks best-sellers.
Elle’s memoir was overtaken by books such as The Courage To Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness by Fumitake Koga and Ichiro Kishimi, which is currently at number nine.
And it’s not just the spoken versions of the book that aren’t achieving big sales.
Memories have performed even more poorly in amazon.com.auand the online retailer included the memoir at No. 34 on its list of 100 best-sellers.
Indigenous psychologist Tracy Westerman’s memoir Jilya came in at number 33.
It seems that supermodel Elle Macpherson’s memoirs have failed to revolutionize the world. In the photo: Elle
On Booktopia, Elle’s story failed to make the top ten list of best-selling books for biographies and true stories, while it did not appear at all in The Dymocks Top 100 Bestsellers List
The former catwalker has sparked debate after it was revealed in her memoirs that she was diagnosed with breast cancer and opted for a “holistic” treatment.
She went against the advice of 32 doctors by refusing chemotherapy after undergoing a lumpectomy for HER2-positive estrogen-receptive intraductal carcinoma.
This triggered a wave of negative reactions from the public and health professionals against this unconventional treatment.
Australian audiobook provider Audible Australia currently has the book ranked a lackluster 14th on its list of the 100 best-selling audiobooks.
The model was diagnosed with breast cancer seven years ago, but revealed the diagnosis for the first time in her book.
In a candid interview with 60 Minutes Australia, Elle told Tracy Grimshaw she was in “shock” when she received the diagnosis, but decided against the mastectomy and chemotherapy her doctors suggested.
“As you can imagine, it was a shock. I think any woman, most women, when they get the diagnosis, they don’t think it’s going to happen to them,” she said.
Elle underwent a lumpectomy and found that her cancer had unclear margins, meaning it could have spread.
She said she was told she would undergo a “mastectomy, chemotherapy, radiation and hormone replacement.”
The memoir has performed even more mediocrely on amazon.com.au, with the online retailer listing it at an anemic No. 34 on its list of the 100 best-sellers.
Elle said she has always followed “natural medicine” and said her choice was “unconventional” like the “rest of her life.”
“I was given the choice to lose my breasts or lose my life. It wasn’t a choice out of vanity, let me put it that way. It was a natural path in my treatment from within,” she said.
“I had been looking at the body from a holistic perspective: physical and spiritual well-being.”
She went against the advice of 32 doctors by refusing chemotherapy after undergoing a lumpectomy for HER2-positive estrogen-receptive intraductal carcinoma.
She underwent eight months of intense therapy with doctors in Phoenix, Arizona, taking a holistic route.