Terri White
Terri White is a writer, broadcaster and the former Editor-in-Chief of Empire magazine, for which she was named Entertainment Magazine Editor of the Year (British Society of Magazine Editors). She additionally previously edited some of the biggest publications in the UK and US, including Time Out New York and ShortList, and has also written for the Guardian, Grazia and the Big Issue.
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Tattoos Helped Me Reclaim My Body After Years Of Trauma
Terri White, author of Coming Undone on how the pain and visibility of her tattoos helped her.
“Each tattoo was a fresh start. The needle that pounded and pricked, the ink that was dragged down into the dermis. My skin was reimagined, quite literally redrawn. When I looked in the mirror, when others looked at me, I was no longer the girl who was pared and peeled. I was the woman who said: ‘No more, never again. You won’t claim me, you can’t, because I’ve claimed myself.’”
Elle
Terri White has started a new Coming Undone podcast, named for her memoir, which is out in paperback tomorrow! In it she talks to people about their stories of struggle, and of putting themselves back together. The first episode is an interview with the Rev. Richard Coles. Download the podcast now, or listen on Spotify.
‘On good nights, I lost my phone. On bad nights, I lost my sanity’
As Terri White’s memoir Coming Undone is published, this harrowing and incredibly powerful extract has run in the Guardian. It’s about what it was like to grow up with abuse, and then move across the world – to the dream job, in the dream city – only to still struggle, chaotically, with drink and with pain.
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Guardian