Without her good name, her swimming medals, her endorsement income and her athletic talent, Amanda Beard’s life story — perspective warning: she’s only 30 — isn’t much different than that of a girl down the street.
She hooked up with the wrong guy, had academic difficulties, drank too much, ate too much, hooked up with another jerk, fought depression, freaked out when her parents divorced, lost her way and found her soul mate.
But because Beard became an international swimming star at 14, because she became a Playboy centerfold model and because she wrote a kiss-and-tell book, we line up with $24.99 in our hand for a chance of read about the sex, drugs, rock and roll.
Or, you could save the $24.99 and wait a few years because someone in Hollywood is sure to make a movie of Beard’s autobiography, “In the Water They Can’t See You Cry.”
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