The Bigger the Better, the Tighter the Sweater: 21 Funny Women on Beauty, Body Image . . .

#7 on the Bay Area Bestseller List on August 5, 2007

The other possible title for this book is "Twenty-one Different Ways to Feel Like a Freak of Nature and Find Happiness Anyway."  Or "Actual Comments on Real Body Parts and The Trouble They Caused."  Sample comment from a lactation consultant to a Chinese-American mother still recovering from labor: "Oh, you have African-American boobies!"  Sample remark from a doctor to a 26-year-old woman who'd had her first lumpectomy at 13 and her third at 16: "Well, they're not the worst I've seen."  If you can't identify with Nancy Rabinowitz, who wore a size 38DD at 14, perhaps you can identify with Laura Fraser, who discovered that the strange shape of her buttocks, the source of much medical attention when she was eight, was due to steatopygia, "excessive adipose tissue accumulation around the buttocks."  Of course, in both cases, Rude Remarks were legion, and that's what makes all 21 stories a mirror.  Whatever it is about your body that you hate, whatever humiliation or anguish you endured as a result, you will find catharsis here. 

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