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After PBS invited me to host the Emmy-nominated national special Natural Beauty: Salon Secrets at Home, Random House asked me to put those kitchen-counter salon secrets into a book. This is that book.

It is not a catalog of expensive potions. It is the insider playbook I used in my own salon: strawberry citrus masks, Egyptian milk baths, homemade “wax,” sugar-and-oil scrubs that outperform the pricey stuff, and the chapters women still quote back to me—Salon Snake Oil and Cosmetic Counter Combat. Beauty that starts in the pantry, not the department store. A Random House title that launched as Amazon’s #1 beauty book.

This one is the bigger makeover.

As a former model who had to rescue herself from tired, frumpy, and overweight, I wrote A Beautiful New You for the woman who knows something has to change and does not want a scalpel to do it. Hair, clothes, posture, food, energy, attitude—six steps, real before-and-after stories from women I transformed on television and in the salon, and the same no-nonsense voice that made the first book travel.

Not a diet book. Not a shopping list. A total makeover from the inside out, published by Random House for anyone ready to walk taller than the mirror.