Kera Rachel Deiss
Kera Deiß (born April 18, 1988 in Böblingen as Kera Rachel Cook ; also Kera Deiss ) is a German author .
Life
Deiß was born in 1988 as the daughter of an American and a German. After graduating from high school in 2007, she took acting lessons in Hamburg , which she broke off prematurely due to her eating disorder . In 2011 she completed a bachelor's degree in rhetoric and literature at the University of Tübingen , which she completed in 2013. Deiß then completed her master's degree in literary and cultural theory by the end of 2016. She now has her residence in Rottenburg am Neckar .
In 2010 she took part in the 5th season of the model casting show Germany's Next Top Model , in which she was eliminated after three episodes as 19th because she did not meet the requirements of the jury. Deiß worked for several years as an internationally sought-after plus-size model . In 2015 she decided to end her modeling career because she no longer wanted to be part of an industry that shaped pathological ideals of beauty and was built on the self-doubts of women and men. In 2017, she and her husband Robert Deiß founded the company choose now , which specializes in prevention work in the areas of eating disorders, self-esteem and pressure to optimize through media beauty, performance and behavioral ideals.
In her 2017 book Ugly Duckling Was Yesterday , she worked on her experiences in the modeling business as well as her struggle with bulimia , binge eating and borderline that had lasted for over a decade . For her honesty, she was nominated for the Kindle Storyteller X Award from Amazon Germany .
Her third book, Favorite Body: Well-Being Instead of Desired Weight (for the first time under her new name Kera Deiss ) followed in January 2019 .
Works
- From girl to model. Fascination of Germany's Next Top Model. Self-published, 2017, ISBN 978-1-5211-6498-3 .
- Ugly duckling was yesterday. Self-published, 2017, ISBN 978-1-5218-5883-7 .
- Favorite body: Comfortable instead of your desired weight. 2019, ISBN 978-3-7481-5626-0 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kera - choosenow. Retrieved January 18, 2019 .
- ↑ Gerhard J. Ernest: More Sex in Text Conversation with the "Curvy Model" Kera Rachel Cook (Part 1)
- ↑ The Price of Beauty. SWR Nachtcafé, accessed on January 18, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Diss, Kera Rachel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cook, Kera Rachel; Deiss, Kera |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 18, 1988 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boeblingen |