This book has been sitting about for awhile with the last couple of chapters unread. So today I finished them (it was still quite relevant, as the latter portion deals with post-pregnancy issues) and posted the following review:
Contrary to the title, this book is not about getting skinny when pregnant. As the authors state, they just have inappropriate sense of humour and wanted to gain attention by appealing to our vanity.
This is the another book by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin, who wrote the #1 New York Times bestseller Skinny Bitch, which gained such status after Victoria Beckham was photographed clutching a copy. Written in the same no nonsense style, Bun in the Oven is similarly able to describe a lot more of "horrors" of the food industry than would normally hold the interest of a reader, although I doubt many pregnant women who are feeling more maternal and tearful than usual would be able to stomach the chapter on the cruelty than occurs in slaughterhouses.
Read the whole review.
Contrary to the title, this book is not about getting skinny when pregnant. As the authors state, they just have inappropriate sense of humour and wanted to gain attention by appealing to our vanity.
This is the another book by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin, who wrote the #1 New York Times bestseller Skinny Bitch, which gained such status after Victoria Beckham was photographed clutching a copy. Written in the same no nonsense style, Bun in the Oven is similarly able to describe a lot more of "horrors" of the food industry than would normally hold the interest of a reader, although I doubt many pregnant women who are feeling more maternal and tearful than usual would be able to stomach the chapter on the cruelty than occurs in slaughterhouses.
Read the whole review.
For those that have embraced the skinny bitch philosophy (vegetarian, if not vegan with minimal refined and processed foods) and can't get up to cook as you don't quite know what is left to survive on, Skinny Bitch in the Kitch contains recipes and an assurance that the skinny girls know "Life without lasagna isn’t a life worth living" and "chocolate cake is vital to our survival". And for the men out there, last year Skinny Bastard was released, presumably to address man boobs and other male issues. Although I'm thinking this is one their female partners will buy them as I'm not sure the title appeals to the Y chromosome, maybe it need a male celebrity to put a copy under his arm?
3 comments:
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That's sad that there's a book like that. I know there's a lot of depression in getting pregnant and feeling like you're suddenly fat and unattractive as a result, but I think trying to lose weight while you're pregnant? Bad idea. Oh moongess!
Hi Heidi,
I don't think you read the review, as it started "Contrary to the title, this book is not about getting skinny when pregnant." The authors cearly state the title is to gain attention and don't recommend losing weight while pregnant at all. The book is about healthy eating and making people aware "horrors" about the food industry.
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