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Belly Laughs: The Naked Truth about Pregnancy and Childbirth | 
| Author: Jenny Mccarthy
Publisher: Perseus Books Group
Category: Book
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Rating:  366 reviews
Sales Rank: 24322
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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
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Condition: superb, crisp, clean, unread paperback with some light shelfwear to the covers - VERY NICE!
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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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 I absolutely love this book! August 28, 2008
When I was pregnant with my daughter, Jenny McCarthy made me feel SO much better. And, I loved that the chapters were so short because I had no attention span. I highly recommend this for any woman who's expecting.....
 Belly Laughs August 27, 2008
Hilarious book. Jenny McCarthy lets all all the gross yet humourous details of how she felt while she was pregnant - no holding back. I would definately reccommend this book - also it is easy reading.
 Bad Experience August 24, 2008
I thought this book didn't have any amusement what so ever. If anything this would make a person very nervous about the whole miracle of life. She had a bad pregnancy accompanied by a hard birth. I would not read any of her other books as it would make me want to crawl under a rock and cry for what will life with a child bring next. Maybe being with Jim Carey has helped her in her life since her husband didn't seem to be much of a man but more of thorn in her side on top of all her pains an mood swings.
 Inappropriate - but no one should be surprised August 17, 2008
R-rated book is full of inappropriate and crude humor. No one should be surprised though as the author has gained this reputation.
Funny, and a Quick Read July 24, 2008
My wife and I are expecting a boy on about October 1st (2008). It's the first child for both of us, so we bought the authoritative "Your Pregnancy Week by Week (Sixth Edition)" by G. B. Curtis and Judith Schuler. We'd read a chapter every week. The book was interesting and informative and we learned a lot. But after about the 25th week we began to experience burn-out on the reading of this week by week saga. We joked about the problem with another couple who recently had a baby. They said we were reading the wrong book and furnished us with a paperback titled "Belly Laughs" by Jenny McCarthy.
Jenny McCarthy is an ex-Playboy model and actress. She has an earthy, self-deprecating sense of humor. She described her pregnancy as it really was and she could be quite funny. My wife and I could easily recognize ourselves in her naratives. About the only differences were in matters of degree. For example, my wife hasn't experienced the headaches described by Jenny, but has had much more serious problems with "Charley Horses" in the legs and feet. Otherwise, our experiences follow Jenny's fairly closely. I'd say her experiences were a little more pronounced than ours. I doubt that she was in as good shape as my wife or took as good care of herself. Her husband came across as an insensitive clod here and there. On the other hand, she may have exaggerated some things slightly for the sake of humor, and she can be very funny.
The book is very informal, down-to-earth, funny and a quick read. Most chapters take no more than 5 or 10 minutes. It's not a serious treatise, but would provide good comic relief for any couple going through a pregnancy. The book is very informally written. Some like it as such and some don't. I have no way of knowing, but I have doubts that Ms McCarthy actually sat down and wrote the book. It reads as if it was dictated and recorded, and then typed up with only minimal editorial reworking. That's OK by me. It's an easy and fun book to read and I'd recommend it as light reading for any couple. Some people might find parts of the book offensive; My advice to them would be to lighten up a little. If you want heavier, much more serious reading, the Curtis/Schuler book is one of many that might work well.
Gary Peterson
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