BookTalk
This is a no-holds-barred account of what you can really expect when you’re expecting. Jenny McCarthy will lead you on an honest romp through short and funny chapters with titles like, “Honey, Your Sperm Really Do Work! (Pregnancy Tests)” and “Granny Panties (Letting Go of the G-String)”
For a woman who became famous for her body (Hello, Playmate!) and endeared herself to America via MTV and forthright potty mouth, Jenny comes off like a girlfriend telling hilarious and real stories. Have no doubt, these are truthful tales. Always tempered with humor and at times advice for a different course of action, the less attractive qualities of pregnancy never seemed so funny. This one is worth an hour of your time for anyone pregnant, thinking of getting pregnant, or any woman ready for a good laugh. In the end you’ll wish you could invite her over for a play-date of your own!
Review
No one get excited. There is no little librarian on the way. I read this one because my friend Tara (who has her own ‘green’ themed blog GreenCycledDesigns) checked it out of the library. Having finished said book ridiculously quickly, she dropped it off in my library with the enticement of at least an hours worth of laughter to be found in the pages.
She wasn’t lying! Even with no plans on the horizon to start my own family I couldn’t seem to put this book down. It’s not a masterful work of literature, it’s even better…An honest-to-goodness conversation with your funniest girlfriend. And while the laughter you’ll have over picturing Jenny McCarthy herself pissed at her husband for wanting to watch Playmates on a TV reality show in the chapter entitled “Die, Model B*tch, Die! (Hating Skinny People)” you’ll forgive her for being one of those genetically blessed people in her 9 to 5. Especially after she admits:
“…I couldn’t take it. He said I was being silly, considering I had been a Playmate once myself. Well, if I had known what the sight of a Playmate did to women during pregnancy, I would have done us all a favor and been the fattest and hairiest Playmate of all time.”
And while her dear, loving hubby still refuses to change the channel after some not-so-good-natured tantrum throwing Jenny follows up with sage advice:
“…so I resorted to the only thing I knew would work. I began crying. It worked. We switched to the Disney channel.
Another effective strategy and one that feels devilishly good is this: While your husband is getting undressed at night, look in a magazine and shout out, “Damn! That George Clooney has a fine a$$!” See how he likes it.”
Let me tell you, this is by far the tamest of her anecdotes. I won’t even begin to quote the chapter on pregnant sex which involves an analogy involving pigs, pastures, dogs, and farmers…honestly laughed for a good 5 minutes after that. Or when she goes to see a “butt doctor” when concerned about her bodily functions; Tears, I tell you, Tears from laughter.
This one is worth picking up. If a girlfriend has it, or you see it in your local library take a few minutes and give it a little look. The 3 page chapters and conversational voice will have you at hello. Take the hour (and a glass of wine if you’re not carrying your own bundle of joy) and listen to a funny girl tell her story. This book isn’t the most informational…but I’m willing to bet it’s the most honest and enjoyable.
Rating: 5/5 It was funny, scary, then hilarious again. Like chatting with your funniest girlfriend!
Sara O
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