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Just for the Record is the second autobiography from ex-Spice Girl, dog lover and United Nations Goodwill Ambassador, Geri Halliwell. In If Only Geri charted her "rags to riches" journey from Watford to the point at which she dramatically left the Spice Girls. In this sumptuously illustrated book she candidly explains "what happened next".

Her post Spice Girls life has not, it emerges, been easy. Having buried "Ginger Spice", Geri admits it has been a struggle to shake off her old image and establish herself as solo artist. While she did eventually manage to clock up four No. 1 singles and two Top 10 albums, she was plagued by stalkers and the tabloid press and battled with depression and a serious eating disorder. She confesses to regularly starving herself and to bingeing on a chocolate cake fished out of a rubbish bin. The most unnerving thing about this book is the contrast between the images it contains and some of Halliwell's more painful reminiscences.

The story has a happy ending: with the help of friends George Michael and Robbie Williams, Geri managed to beat her eating disorders. She now advocates eating well and exercising regularly and seems, even with a somewhat flagging musical career, genuinely content with her lot. The prurient will be disappointed to find she only has nice words for ex-lover Chris Evans and her former colleagues. Wannabes everywhere will find this girl still has the power to charm. --Travis Elborough

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews   4 of 5 people found the following review helpful: Back - and Better than EVER!, 12 Sep 2002 By  "andrew_xlb" - See all my reviews We all knew it would happen, we all knew it would be good - but what we didn't expect was such a magnificently artistic and glossily finished product! Geri Halliwell has to be the most famous woman in UK Pop at the moment (Calm down, Kylie is australian!) She is certainly the most talked about! Like us all, Geri is human - not that many of the public would know it, after the battering the press have given her recently. This book revelas a fragile and very vulnerable side to a girl the nation should admire and hold up as an icon of our time. The book is substantial, glossy and extremely clever. You would be abnormal to be able to put this down halfway through!  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   1 of 1 people found the following review helpful: Great Pictures!, 28 Sep 2007 By  Reijo Piippula "5 stars = classic, 4 stars = ... (Turku, Finland) - See all my reviews I think that this book has great pictures of Geri. The stories are also very good but I'm still wishing that there would have been more essential information about her. Anyway, this book a must for Geri Halliwell fans.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   13 of 27 people found the following review helpful: Poor, 10 Jan 2003 By  "davidb75" - See all my reviews I dont know why anybody would be interested in this No talent, wrong side of middle age "singer" oh, woops. I forgot she cant sing. Totally boring book...Not sure how u can have 2 autobigraphies (probably make more money that way) so Expect more autobiogs to come our way I guess. Perhaps something more interesting might happen in the next one. Which I am sure I will not read  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this) › See all 21 customer reviews...		Most Recent Customer Reviews Disappointing Geri's first autobiography "If Only" was a brutally honest, touching account of a lost young girl desperate for the adoration she believed that fame would bring. Read more Published 24 months ago by Daisy Duke Doesn't live up to If Only I read If Only and couldn't put it down it was a great read so I was eager to read Just for the Record. However I was disappointed. Read more Published on 21 Jun 2004