This is a deeply personal and necessary interrogation of the diet culture, our relationship with our bodies, and our capacity for self-love.
This is a book that is for our times, given that many women are morbidly obese. It is a book that will transform how we think about the diet culture and how we can finally love our bodies, just as they are.
Ostby doesn't shy away from difficult questions nor is she afraid to turn the critical gaze on herself. She makes the reader feel like we're all in this together—which I believe is right. We all have to fight the diet industry because it is making us more obese and even more importantly it is making us hate ourselves and our precious body.
Ostby is a critic, thinker and author. At the start of the book, she is on tour promoting her latest nonfiction book. As she poses for a newspaper photographer, she silently worries about how her belly will look on the front page. Later, she realizes how ridiculous this is: she is being celebrated for an intellectual achievement, and yet, all she can focus on is her appearance!
She wonders show a girl who grew up in a home where brains were always valued more than her looks find herself fixated on her body. Wy do so many women feel the same way?
In this book, Ostby gets on a mission to find out why we have such mixed feelings about our midsections, drawing on philosophy, neurology, sociology, literature, and popular culture, as well as her own dark truths.
In this honest, often humorous book about an obsession that has plagued women for centuries, readers will find laughter, anger, tears, and a new perspective on their own unique struggles.
This is a wonderful book by a Canadian author who isn't afraid to ask the hard questions about a topic that plagues most women. As I type this review, I too am looking at my midsection wondering how I can whittle it down.
Thank you Hilde Ostby for such a thoughtful and poignant book!!
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