Supermodel Elle Macpherson’s highly-publicised memoir has failed to set the world on fire.
Despite a raft of headlines over the past week, Elle: Life, Lessons, and Learning to Trust Yourself has not resonated with audiences based on new sales figures.
The 60-year-old’s memoir failed to crack the top ten audiobooks in just over a week after its release.
n audiobook purveyor Audible currently has the book, which is read by Macpherson herself, ranked at a lacklustre number 14 in its top 100 bestselling audiobooks chart.
Elle’s memoir was beaten out by the likes of The Courage To Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness, by Fumitake Koga and Ichiro Kishimi, which currently sits at number nine.
And it’s not just spoken word versions of the book that aren’t racking up big sales, either.
The memoir has put in an even more middling performance over on amazon.com.au, with the online retailer listing the memoir at number 34 on its top 100 best selling books list.
The memoir of Indigenous psychologist Tracy Westerman, Jilya, fared better at number 33.
It appears that supermodel Elle Macpherson’s memoir has failed to set the world on fire. Pictured: Elle
On Booktopia, Elle’s story failing to crack the top ten biography and true stories bestseller chart, while it failed to appear at all on Dymocks’ top 100 bestsellers list.
The former catwalker has sparked debate after it was revealed in her memoir she was diagnosed with breast cancer and opted for a ‘holistic’ treatment path.
Elle went against the advice of 32 doctors by refusing chemotherapy after undergoing a lumpectomy for HER2 positive oestrogen receptive intraductal carcinoma.
This prompted a wave of backlash from the public and health professionals over the unconventional treatment path.
n audiobook purveyor Audible currently has the book ranked at a lacklustre number 14 in its top 100 bestselling audiobooks chart
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The model was diagnosed with breast cancer seven years ago, but revealed the diagnosis for the first time in her book.
Addressing her breast cancer battle in a candid interview with 60 Minutes , Elle told Tracy Grimshaw she was in ‘shock’ when she got the diagnosis, but chose not to have the mastectomy and chemotherapy that her doctors suggested.
‘As you can imagine, it was a bit of a shock. I think any woman, most women, when they’re diagnosed, don’t think it will to happen to them,’ she said.
Elle underwent a lumpectomy, and learned her cancer had no clear margins — meaning it could have spread.
She said she was told to have a ‘mastectomy, chemotherapy, radiation and hormone replacement’.
The memoir has put in an even more middling performance over on amazon.com.au with the online retailer listing the memoir at anemic number 34 on its top 100 best selling books list
Elle said she has always followed ‘natural medicine’ and said her choice was ‘unconventional’ like the ‘rest of her life’.
‘It was a choice of losing my breasts, or losing my life, that I was given. So it was not a vanity choice, let me put it that way. It was a natural route in my treatment from within,’ she said.
‘I had been really looking at the body in a holistic way — spiritual and physical well-being’.
Elle went against the advice of 32 doctors by refusing chemotherapy after undergoing a lumpectomy for HER2 positive oestrogen receptive intraductal carcinoma.
She underwent eight months of intense therapy with doctors in Phoenix, Arizona, taking a holistic route.