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| Belly Laughs: The Naked Truth about Pregnancy and Childbirth | 
 enlarge | Author: Jenny Mccarthy
Publisher: Perseus Books Group
Category: Book
List Price: $12.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  383 reviews
Sales Rank: 221092
Format: Bargain Price
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 165
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5 x 0.5
Dewey Decimal Number: 618.200207
ASIN: B000WCTNAY
Publication Date: January 30, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: 2005 HARDCOVER, very good condition in a very good dust jacket, completely unmarked, NOT an ex-library book
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Product Description
Oh, the joys of pregnancy! There's the gasiness, constipation, queasiness, and exhaustion; the forgetfulness, crankiness, and the constant worry. Of course, no woman is spared these discomforts and humiliations, but most are too polite to complain or too embarrassed to talk about them. Not Jenny McCarthy!In Belly Laughs, the actress and new mother reveals the naked truth about the tremendous mood swings, 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. With tips and hilarious musings on morning sickness and hormonal rage, hemorrhoids, pregnant sex, and the torture and sweet relief that is delivery, Belly Laughs is must-read comic relief for anyone who is pregnant, who has ever been pregnant, is trying to get pregnant or indeed, has ever been born!
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 This book is hilarious!!!! April 6, 2005
79 out of 83 found this review helpful
I'm not expecting, but one of my best friends is expecting her first child. My coworker brought this book into work, and she said we had to read this book. I had tears running down my face. This book is a quick read and you can finish it easy in 1 - 2 days. This book takes a light hearted look at pregnancy. Pregnancy is a beautiful experience, but it was fun to read her frank and funny views on gas, the belly expanding, and the all so quiet topic of pooping on the delivery table. There were so many moments when I laughed out loud and had to look around to make sure no one was looking at me all strange.
Some of her other funny stories includes; craving mustard, when she hated mustard. Jenny liking mumus because nothing else fit. Jenny having strange dreams while pregnant. Dealing with hemorrhoids, weighing her breast. Her trying to keep her boobs from hanging off the sides of the mattress due to their size. Surrender to the maternity bra. A pregnant woman's fart can truly bring a man to his knees. I had to find tissue after reading that line. I had so many laughing tears running down my face. The different changes the body go through. Crying for no reason due to hormonal changes, and pregnancy stupids. Skin changes, pregnant head, bad headaches and wanting to saw the head off. Premature labor. Hating skinny women. How she panicked when the epidural wore off and her concerns was still "Am I pooping on the table." Don't make a pregnant woman want to pee.
This book is not meant to be a pregnancy guide, it's meant to take a light hearted comical look at going through the pregnancy experience. I mean the book is after all called Belly Laughs. If you are expecting this book to have some new insight on pregnancy then you will be mistaken. If you have a great sense of humor you will find yourself enjoying this book a lot.
This book will make you laugh and laugh some more. I bought a copy for my best friend, and she loved it. This book is hilarious!!!!!!!!
You are not alone April 23, 2007
29 out of 29 found this review helpful
This book has given me a whole new perspective on Jenny McCarthy. She isn't just a beautiful woman. She has added a hilarious and somewhat crass voice to pregnancy.
Any woman who has ever felt insecure about her appearance or the physical nature of pregnancy should read this book. Reading about Jenny's surrender to granny panties or actually having nothing that fits but a muumuu will make you laugh and realize that what you are going through is normal.
This book will not tell you how to deal with your pregnancy aside from a few tips but it will help you remember that you are not alone. Everyone needs someone to bond over mustard cravings with.
This is one of the funniest books I have read in years.
Tales from the trenches...Funny, reassuring & right on! June 4, 2004
18 out of 19 found this review helpful
Candid, often hysterical "up close and personal" accounts of some of the most embarrassing, annoying, confusing experiences a mother-to-be (or in my case a mother pregnant with her second child) is faced with. It was pure joy and instant relief!...It's as if I was talking to a close girlfriend over a cup of coffee only too happy to discover that I am truly not alone in the occasional feelings of anxiety, guilt, envy, paranoia and general frustration the hormones seem to stir up during this otherwise blessed 9 month period. Humor is indeed therapeutic, an essential tool for successful parenting. Another book that I highly recommend for the same reasons is called "The Pocket Parent." This book is loaded with humor, compassion and hundreds of sanity saving suggestions written exclusively for parents of toddlers. The many short true annecdotes included from the true experts--moms and dads in the trenches of parenthood--continue to help me keep in mind that I am not alone in my hair-raising experiences, thoughts and feelings especially on a really bad day! Both books are excellent additions to your home library that will make you laugh while replenishing your spirit as a more confident parent!
 Not for everyone -- kind of rude, disrespectful April 25, 2004
16 out of 54 found this review helpful
Unless you are into the really crude kind of humor that passes for entertainment on late-night TV, you will be offended by this book. The book is quite explicit at times, and the jokes are more reminiscent of the kind of humor you'd expect from a group of adolescent boys obsessed with certain body parts than a woman expecting a baby. I'm sure some women will enjoy this book, but personally I found it offensive and disrespectful to pregnancy and motherhood. So buyer beware.
A very negative view of pregnancy February 13, 2006
16 out of 27 found this review helpful
Wow, what a strange look at pregnancy. On the cover, Ms. McCarthy looks very happy and Earth-Mothery as she holds her pregnant belly. Inside the book, however, I found countless diatribes about how "fat" and "unattractive" pregnancy makes a woman. I suppose I should have expected that a former Playboy Playmate would be overly obesessed with body image, but I was sometimes shocked by how negative her pregnant body image was. She devotes two seperate chapters to discussing how "fat" your rear end will become during pregnancy, and actually has a chapter titled "Hating Skinny People." Her advice to pregnant moms is to avoid looking at one's body in a mirror during pregnancy. I found very little that was funny in this book. Her anecdotes were far from humorous. One is about how she crammed herself into a tight corset for a national television appearance so that no one would notice how "fat" (i.e. pregnant) she looked. Another is about how miserable she felt sitting next to her husband in her "fat" pregnant body while he drooled over the Playboy channel. Instead of making me laugh, her stories and attitude about pregnancy made me feel sorry for her. Unfortunately for the reader, Ms. McCarthy is not one of the millions of pregnant women who feel comfortable, happy, and beautiful in their pregnant bodies.
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