NEW YORK — The cafe is tucked away on Mercer St., an intimate escape just steps from bustling SoHo streets and storefronts displaying luxury fashion. The bar is stocked with wine and coffee, the walls are lined with books and the air is filled with the aroma of fresh paperbacks. It’s the perfect setting to meet Keeley Hazell, whose debut book, “Everyone’s Seen My Tits: Stories and Reflections from an Unlikely Feminist,” was released Aug. 26.
A former Page 3 model, Hazell’s honest memoir divulges more than celebrity gossip or how she landed topless in “The Sun” at only 18 years old. Hazell, now 38, shows readers what the 2000s tabloids did not, boldly confronting her emotional turmoil in a way that can only be accomplished with the distance of years (and with “lots of therapy,” she says), from the humiliation of revenge porn to parental trauma, class struggles, sexuality and the experiences that prompted her “unlikely feminism.”
The provocative book title was born in her late 20s, and the hyperbole “encapsulates the feeling of being a teenager,” Hazell says. Her publisher expressed concerns about getting the title promoted on broadcast television but Hazell says there was “no other title.”
