"For models to have the same social and commercial clout as Hollywood stars, they will have to want to live that sort of 'fishbowl' existence; they will have to be up for living a glamorous and public existence," she says.
Click here to listen If Olsen - who has toured and recorded with Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - sings about the futility and finality of existence, she does so with gusto and verve, and a crack in the voice, a sob, that has seen her compared to Loretta Lynn.
"The first step to eradicating the scourge of modern slavery is acknowledging and confronting its existence," she said.
The trail leads Lilian to China, to her father's long-abandoned other family, whose existence she and her Irish American mother never suspected.
Hollywood is a world away from Ina May's existence – she and her husband, Stephen, now 74, live in a basic but cosy log cabin.
"A few years ago I almost died by my own hand, and when I woke from that disagreeable event, I recognized for the first time that I was fully and solely responsible for my existence," she writes at the beginning of her preface, and then goes on to express her gratitude to the people who helped her along the road to this book of essays; her suicide attempt is not discussed further there.
Wednesday, 26 April 2016: Pari now divides her life into the one she knew before that date, and the shadow of an existence she has lived since.
"There was knowledge of its existence," she said, "and a view that it might be somewhat anachronistic to the extent that it was created to solve the problem of overcrowding, which had been eased".
"They're in 10th grade and all they care about is their existence," she said.
Bored with her existence, she yearns for sexual and social liberation.
