![]() ![]() ![]() Coddington is far from cold, she’s immensely likable, but her reserve is just south of austere. A 1960s headline in the now defunct British tabloid The Daily Sketch referred to Coddington as “Cold as a codfish, but hot as a four-bar fire” (Coddington’s nickname was the Cod). ![]() The same guarded treatment is given to her two divorces, which she describes matter-of-factly, again subtracting emotion from what was likely a difficult time. That’s the one shortcoming of “Grace.” Coddington seems unable to share her inner biography. “Things had not worked out quite as I had planned,” she offers, denying readers access into thoughts and fears of a top model who experiences a disfiguring accident that will put her out of work for two years. She writes of the accident as coolly as she describes a photo shoot in the Bahamas. ![]() In less than two pages, she tells of how her eyelid was sliced off in the accident and restoring it required five rounds of plastic surgery. The quick ascent was abruptly sidelined by a serious car accident that Coddington alluded to in “The September Issue.” In “Grace” she offers a smidgen more detail than the three minutes she shared in the documentary, but sadly, not much more. ![]()
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