Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family by Rabia Chaudry

2 reviews

sarah_thebooknerd's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

There is a lot of discussion of unhealthy eating being a large contributor to fatness which in some cases that is true but some people can work out, eat healthy but still have bigger bodies and although this is a memoir about her personal journey I wish she had sort of mentioned that. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse

alittlebitheather's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

I appreciate when an actual fat person talks about what it's like living as a fat person. This book spoke to me as someone who is fat and struggled with their weight their entire life. Rabia Chaudry speaks on a wide range of experiences, from shame eating to realizing she was the biggest person in the room, to that feeling of the waistline of your pants gradually getting tighter, but not being able to stop eating. She also discusses her relationship with food as an immigrant from Pakistan, and how her family's chasing of the American Dream correlated to her weight gain and relationship with food. Fatty Fatty Boom Boom is honest, real, and relatable. If you know a fat person, are a fat person, or love a fat person, read it immediately. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Fatphobia, and Domestic abuse