During its two-year journey from hardcover to paperback, BELLY LAUGHS: THE NAKED TRUTH ABOUT PREGNANCY AND CHILDREN has already dated itself, in that the husband the author Jenny McCarthy refers to is no longer that.
But she’s still got the kid and the book is still quite amusing, as only McCarthy could deliver. Name one other baby book that contains this line of advice: “There’s nothing worse than a big, sloppy vagina.”
In her own inimitable way – which is to say Girl Next Door with the mouth of a sailor – McCarthy dishes the real dirt on what it really feels like to have a life growing inside of you, and the various maladies and side effects that result. Giving birth is a beautiful thing … that does disgusting things to your body. For instance, she talks candidly (actually, “candidly” is an understatement) about which medicine gives you “wet farts,” constipation that forced her to get her stool dug out by a doctor and “blue Twinkies,” which is her euphemism for swollen labia. Plus, she discusses engorged mammaries, the fervent need to pee, the joy of granny panties and her mortal fear of pooping on the table during delivery.
Being a man, I’ll never be able to experience childbirth, obviously, but as a three-time father who’s been there, done that, even I could appreciate BELLY LAUGHS. It’s more smile-inducing than laugh-out-loud funny, but the advice is practical, even if delivered in a manner that would get bleeped on most TV shows. In other words, the personality exhibited on SINGLED OUT is intact. McCarthy’s not afraid to talk about the things no one else will (i.e. “hemmies”), and thus, the book reads like a conversation with the girl herself. A one-sided conversation in which you may not get a word in edgewise, but entertaining nonetheless. –Rod Lott
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