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Title: Living with Diabetes

Subtitle: Nicole Johnson, Miss America 1999

Author: Nicole Johnson

Narrator: Vanessa Johansson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-02-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Self Development, Motivation & Inspiration

Publisher's Summary:

Here is a moving story of personal triumph - and a prescription for how to tame a disease that afflicts millions of Americans and is doubling among children. The former Miss America, a diabetic herself, offers an inspirational guide to living with diabetes, discussing the need for early detection and treatment of the disease and explaining how, with proper diet, exercise, medication, and attitude, to cope with it.

Editorial Reviews:

Retired beauty queen and current health advocate Nicole Johnson can write about insulin and tiaras with equal authority. Her autobiographical audiobook requires a narrator who can accomplish the same task, and it finds one in Vanessa Johansson. Johanssons feminine and knowledgeable voice can summon the gravitas needed to discuss life-or-death medical issues as well as the light and fun tones needed to talk about fashion and pageants.

Johnson has never rested on her laurels as a former Miss America (1999), choosing instead to work tirelessly for diabetes awareness. Remarkably, in little more than a decade, Johnson has raised over 26 million dollars for her cause célèbre.

Members Reviews:

Excellent story of survival

As both a fan of the Miss America pageants and a diabetic, I felt drawn to this book. I was amazed at how many times Nicole Johnson landed in the emergency room before she was able with the help of her medical team to get her on a good program for living with diabetes. In her video on the Miss America show, she makes it all look so easy. We certainly learn from her book that nothing was easy for her. She truly struggled with this disease.

Her desire to help others suffering from diabetes is inspirational. I particularly liked the story about the little girl who told her mom that she wanted an "insulin pump just like Nicole's."

It just happens that I've been dealing with diabetes for over eleven years and so I could nearly write a book myself and so I could have probably stood less about the disease and more about Nicole herself and more behind-the-scenes stories from the pageant. But this is just me and obviously diabetes is the topic and needs to be in the forefront of her story. She tells her story in an informative and inspirational way. I am sure there are many grateful parents of diabetic children out there who appreciated the education Nicole offered during her year as Miss America and since then. I understand that she has a daughter of her own now. I send my best to them both. I still have the tape of the Miss America show when Nicole won her title and watch it frequently--I believe it was "Miss America 1999."

"There She Is--An American Survivor"

Forget everything you thought you knew about the Miss America Pageant. After reading Nicole Johnson's Book "Living with Diabetes," it's clear this independent-thinking reformer immediately stepped off her pageant runway and into the trenches as a hands-on activist, lobbying for more comprehensive medical funding as well as raising both public consciousness and millions of dollars for diabetes research, forever metamorphosing public opinion along the way.

Without pandering or reverting to classic 'pageant Pollyannaism,' Nicole honestly and openly weaves a theme of conviction, hope and often painful realism.