About this title: A no-holds-barred account of what you can really expect when you're expecting No woman is spared the discomforts and humiliations of pregnancy, but most are too polite to complain or too embarrassed to talk about them. Not Jenny McCarthy! In Belly Laughs, actress and new mother Jenny McCarthy reveals the naked truth about the tremendous joys, the excruciating pains, and the unseemly disfigurement that go along with pregnancy. Never shy, frequently crude, and always laugh-out-loud funny, McCarthy covers it all in the grittiest of girlfriend detail! From morning sickness and hormonal rage, to ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780738210070ISBN:0738210072
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780738209494ISBN:073820949X
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Perseus Books Group
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780738210070ISBN:0738210072
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"In regards to having a baby, Jenny McCarthy says, "If I can do it, ANYONE can!" Um, Jenny, I think you mean this about writing a book.
I agree with the other reviewers who said this book isn't funny. Only one little part even brought a smile to my face, and it's not like I didn't want to laugh. Also, the subtitle should be The Naked Truth About My Pregnancy and Childbirth Experience because of the wide variations in experiences among women. It really is largely negative, immature, and annoying how often she talks about being a celebrity, but it only took a couple hours to read. This is not a book I would've bought, but checked it out at the library out of curiosity. It felt like reading a magazine article by someone who is not a professional writer, and I'm surprised it was ever published."
"I am not one for self-help books about pregnancy or weddings, which are positive things in life. These are not traumatic events for which one needs therapy or guidance. These are just egocentric at best.
I don't need a book to help me "get through" my wedding. Who needs a book to prepare for gifts that appear at your door like Christmas on steroids or a princess gown and cameras snapping only at you as 300 of your closest friends and family come to praise you and watch you eat a piece of cake...yea. Not exactly a traumatizing event in the tragic sense of the word.
Now, trading stories about pregnancy...dishing the "real" details of the event and what to REALLY expect (I don't need to be told what a beautiful time in my life this will be. I wanted to do this, so I obviously already understand that part). I want the grit and the dark and the unexpected. And I want to laugh about it, because, damn it, it's funny.
Jenny McCarthy must be a mad genius. Is she the next Faulkner of crafting sentences? No. Is she the most eloquent explorer of life's complexities and mysteries? No. Is she the world's Stephen Hawking of pregnant philosophy? Um, no. But she offers a hilarious, light-hearted, and realistic understanding of the process and product of pregnancy.
Just listen to the titles of some of the chapters:
Die Model Die (Hating Skinny People) - she laments having been a pretty playmate. Had she known how playmates make pregnant women feel, she would have been the "fattest, hairest playmate of all time."
Pig in the Pasture - sex when you're the size of a pig
Poopin' on the Table (The Dark Side of Delivery) - self-explanatory
I was laughing and taking mental notes. She entertained me while enlightening me on a few details that it are nice to know, such as 4-1-1 which means a contraction every 4 minutes that lasts 1 minute in length for 1 hour. This means you should go to the hospital. Until then, take a shower or give yourself an enema to avoid the last mentioned chapter...I learned this much more effectively than in a textbook style, flowers and butterflies book.
This is the only book I will recommend to other pregnant women in the future. Until, perhaps, David Sedaris writes one."
"(I rate books based on their potential. So while it might not be as good as other books on my list that I gave 4 stars to, I'm not sure why anyone would place that expectation on it.) For being a 1-day read by an MTV celebrity, it definitely earns 4 stars. I recommend reading it around the 6 or 7-month mark. It's quite hilarious, if a little foul (how can you write a funny book about pregnancy without being foul?). And don't follow her sex advice unless you want to get your marriage into trouble. If nothing else, it'll amuse you for a few of the hours that you should have your feet up and maybe boost your ego along the way ("I'm so much more prepared for birth than her!" "I haven't gained that much weight!" etc)"
"A really funny book! Though I'm not pregnant yet and don't plan to be for at least a year or two, I heard that this book came highly recommended, and I figured now was as good a time as any to prepare myself for the "joys" of pregnancy - the stuff they really don't want to tell you! It was fun and entertaining to have a first hand, real take on pregnancy - the good, the bad, and especially the ugly. I think it could possibly scare away someone who wasn't sure that they wanted to be pregnant, but all in all, it was a funny and entertaining book. A quick read, and a must for anyone who is planning on having kids!"
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