What sells? In our world today, I am beginning to find it difficult to see a clear distinction between an authentic desire for a good or service or simply a superb add campaign, manipulating my better judgment into spending 49.99 on a “Magic Bullet’ (which in all honesty seems to be not magic what so ever). This phenomena of producing goods that sell can be found in the genre of disability autobiography. But what I have noted is that autobiography of celebrities who face some of the same struggles as the afore mentioned marginalized people, sells most of all. For example, “Here’s the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice”, debuted at number four on The New York Times Best Seller List and stayed on the list for three weeks. The commercial success of this memoir may be due to the fact that it enables two basic human desire in its readership. To begin, according to Miller and Sheppard, this glimpse into the life of a celebrity, enables the medicated voyerisum/ medicated exhitbtionism relationship. In their research, Miller and Sheppard discuss mediated voyeurism and mediated exhibitionism in regards to the blog, but their research is easily transferable to the genre of celebrity memoir. In noting that voyeurism may have had its origins in “sensationalized tabloid journalism of the late 19th century” they have already addressed the nature of celebrity fascination and furthermore in nothing that readers at the time found the sensationalized stories “more real because they are secret”, this effectively supports the commercial successes of the celebrity autobiography (Miller & Sheppard. 13). This fascination with celebrity culture is intensified when we are introduced to “scandalous secrets regarding their bouts with disabilities (which for the most part manifests as some form of mental illness). Another factor of the commercial successes of the celebrity autobiography can be explainss by Couser through his theory of the “triumphant rhetoric”. Courser states that disability memoir without the triumphant overcoming of the condition is often considered “depressing, it is most payable as a subject of memoir if the narrative takes the form of a story of triumph over adversity” (Couser. 33). Celebrity memoir, due to the fact these autobiographies are primarily created for commercial success, almost exclusively features a triumphant overcoming of the mental illness in order to live their full potential. It is important to be extremely wary with this genre, for is a quick bout with depression then a triumphant return to television may not be an accurate depiction of the chronic, often times permeant nature of most mental illnesses and disabilities? Although the story of “how Marcia Brady fell off the wagon” may have its voyeristic appeals, it is may be a better use of one’s time to seek the truthful depiction of life under a disability.