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Finding My BalanceSpeaker Information
From the beginning, there have always been two sides to Mariel Hemingway's life. Four months before she was born, her grandfather Ernest killed himself in his cabin upriver — it was the fourth suicide in his immediate family — and just a few years later, Mariel encountered the first but perhaps underlying mixed message offered to her by the adult world: her grade school in Ketchum was named after the grandfather who had taken his life with a shotgun.
Barely out of grade school, Mariel nursed her mother through cancer and her father through his bitter, loveless marriage. Then, when she was just thirteen, her sister Margaux, a model and actress, recommended her for a supporting role in "Lipstick." Mariel had never before acted or even entertained the dream. Woody Allen saw the movie, and soon enough he was calling from New York asking her to read for a part in his new fall project — a part he had written expressly for her. As Tracy, she earned an Oscar nomination in what stands as one of the century's best films, "Manhattan."
She continued acting. She survived Margaux's chemical abuse and death. She fell in love with documentary filmmaker, Stephen Crisman, and had two wonderful daughters together. In late 2000, her father passed away when one of the sutures from his bypass surgery burst. Only a few days later, her husband Stephen was diagnosed with cancer.
Her book, Finding My Balance, is more forward thinking than a traditional memoir, more heartfelt than a technical introduction to yoga or meditation. What makes her book endearing is her ability to evaluate the actions she's taken over the course of her life – including her decision to have breast implants, her bizarre eating habits, and her obsessive need to be in complete control of her life – and still find stability and peacefulness. It is the story of a woman learning to balance first on the inside in order to weather the storms from without.