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Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family by Rabia Chaudry
35 reviews
msales's review against another edition
1.5
Riddled with implicit and explicit fatphobia. The entire book details her journey with intentional weight loss. She only ever accepts herself and body once she loses weight. After getting to her “goal weight” she says “my body was waiting for me to treat it with patience, attention, and kindness” as if that’s impossible in a larger body. Would not recommend to anyone who is on a self love or body neutrality journey. Wish I would have just stopped reading once I started getting red flags.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Fatphobia, Body shaming, and Eating disorder
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.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Fatphobia, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse
samneat's review
funny
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Fatphobia
Moderate: Domestic abuse and Vomit
melissacushman's review against another edition
adventurous
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.25
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Sexism, and Eating disorder
Moderate: Domestic abuse
silodear's review
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
2.0
TW: anti-fat bias
Well, shoot. Another memoir I had high hopes for that is actually a huge disappointment. I thought (based on the book jacket and my limited knowledge of the author) that this would be a fat-positive narrative about the challenges the author experiences as a fat person navigating the anti-fat world. That is not this book. Chaudry’s book is about “why” she believes she is fat and chronicles her daily work/suffering to ensure that she is “not that fat.” She equates fatness with ill-health over and over again.
I loved the writing of this memoir and I was captivated by the story. I wish it hadn’t been so anti-fat.
Well, shoot. Another memoir I had high hopes for that is actually a huge disappointment. I thought (based on the book jacket and my limited knowledge of the author) that this would be a fat-positive narrative about the challenges the author experiences as a fat person navigating the anti-fat world. That is not this book. Chaudry’s book is about “why” she believes she is fat and chronicles her daily work/suffering to ensure that she is “not that fat.” She equates fatness with ill-health over and over again.
I loved the writing of this memoir and I was captivated by the story. I wish it hadn’t been so anti-fat.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Fatphobia
raymariereads's review against another edition
Content Warnings
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Body shaming, and Physical abuse
leannecs's review
2.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, and Fatphobia
Would not classify this as a book about body positivity. A lot of mention of specific weight, clothing size, body comparison and fat shaming. Weight loss is heavily celebrated throughout the book.olivinebranch's review
If you're looking for a fat-positive book, this isn't it. Unbelievably triggering and ultimately felt like it affirms fatphobia, unhealthy relationships with food/dieting and exercise, & weight loss surgery.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Fatphobia, Body shaming, and Eating disorder
Moderate: Domestic abuse
leweylibrary's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
funny
informative
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
This book makes me hungry. It also makes me wish I would've grown up eating not only more diverse foods but also eating healthier foods and learning how to cook. It's wild how even though our lives, families, and cultures are so different we have things in common like enjoying junk food and not being taught how to cook and finding it hard to work out and eat right when there's so much stress and so much going on.
I appreciate that even though she did end the book thinner, it wasn't an unhealthy or preachy kind of thinner. She finally found what made her happy and feel empowered and in control with the caveat that everyone is different and we all want to improve no matter where we're at. I also just really enjoyed learning so much about Pakistani culture and food.
Also how wild that she knows Shaun T?? Why is that something that stood out so vividly to me 😅😂
I appreciate that even though she did end the book thinner, it wasn't an unhealthy or preachy kind of thinner. She finally found what made her happy and feel empowered and in control with the caveat that everyone is different and we all want to improve no matter where we're at. I also just really enjoyed learning so much about Pakistani culture and food.
Also how wild that she knows Shaun T?? Why is that something that stood out so vividly to me 😅😂
Content Warnings
Graphic: Fatphobia and Body shaming
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Grief, Toxic relationship, Sexism, Misogyny, and Physical abuse
Minor: Colonisation, Pregnancy, Medical content, Islamophobia, and Eating disorder
kalifer's review against another edition
reflective
fast-paced
3.0
So I had a lot of mixed feelings about this book and I feel the need to write them down. I'm not one to really review on here, as I use this mostly to just track my reading, but I feel it necessary here.
This author made me hungry. Every time she described food, I had to go get a snack because I literally was so hungry the way she described it. It was so detailed and it's very obvious she has a love for food, which I appreciate as a bit of a foodie myself. Also, learning about her culture and family was great; they all had their own personalities and relationships that were great to delve into. I really did love a lot of this book, so much that I blew through it in just 8 days, which is honestly (for me) pretty quickly. She's a very good narrator as well, as I listened to the audiobook. I appreciated hearing her story through her own voice; I always love it when authors read their own memoirs.
The problem that I had about the book was the ever-present fatphobia throughout the entire book. I really would've been okay with hearing her body journey if it had ended in any other way. The ending where she really comes to terms with her body, learns to accept it and see what it's worth was great, but it would've been better if there was more reflection on that? It was literally the last ten minutes of the book (I believe), so it went by quickly despite most of the book being downright depressing when it comes to her body and weight. I really don't think if you have issues with eating disorders or your weight you should really be reading this book. I really don't see how this is a body positive memoir like people are saying it is. I don't think anyone should use this as a standard as someone who may be fat.
She briefly brings up the body positivity movement, which she assumed that people voicing their concerns about how she treats her body and her saying that she just doesn't like not having control of her body? Like, peak fatphobic rhetoric. And presuming that because a lot of people don't like their bodies means it's normal, just off-put me? Why should it be normal to not like your body? There's no self-reflection in this, which really bothered me. And again, the last few minutes of the book where she says she's okay with her body now, just felt undermined by the very last sentence where she pretty much saysshe's only okay with her body because it's not "that" fat? Like, it just felt like she didn't really come to terms with her body if there's a "too fat" that isn't good to be. What's too much fat to her? Will she hate herself again if she reaches that "too fat" range again? Again, no self-reflection, no moment where she really condemns the way she's been treated about her body, no moment, really, where she really combats those beliefs about weight that she has.
The book really was good in a lot of aspects, that's why I gave it a 3 star, because it wasn't a terrible experience. But as someone who is fat and is not upset with my body, I find it ridiculous that she makes it a point to normalize not liking your body. That's not healthy, especially if you struggle with eating disorders. It was hard to reconcile the good parts of this book with all the bad parts. I do think there's merit in this book and I don't believe no one should read it. Just know, going in, that it has a lot of fatphobia in it and could be very triggering.
This author made me hungry. Every time she described food, I had to go get a snack because I literally was so hungry the way she described it. It was so detailed and it's very obvious she has a love for food, which I appreciate as a bit of a foodie myself. Also, learning about her culture and family was great; they all had their own personalities and relationships that were great to delve into. I really did love a lot of this book, so much that I blew through it in just 8 days, which is honestly (for me) pretty quickly. She's a very good narrator as well, as I listened to the audiobook. I appreciated hearing her story through her own voice; I always love it when authors read their own memoirs.
The problem that I had about the book was the ever-present fatphobia throughout the entire book. I really would've been okay with hearing her body journey if it had ended in any other way. The ending where she really comes to terms with her body, learns to accept it and see what it's worth was great, but it would've been better if there was more reflection on that? It was literally the last ten minutes of the book (I believe), so it went by quickly despite most of the book being downright depressing when it comes to her body and weight. I really don't think if you have issues with eating disorders or your weight you should really be reading this book. I really don't see how this is a body positive memoir like people are saying it is. I don't think anyone should use this as a standard as someone who may be fat.
She briefly brings up the body positivity movement, which she assumed that people voicing their concerns about how she treats her body and her saying that she just doesn't like not having control of her body? Like, peak fatphobic rhetoric. And presuming that because a lot of people don't like their bodies means it's normal, just off-put me? Why should it be normal to not like your body? There's no self-reflection in this, which really bothered me. And again, the last few minutes of the book where she says she's okay with her body now, just felt undermined by the very last sentence where she pretty much says
The book really was good in a lot of aspects, that's why I gave it a 3 star, because it wasn't a terrible experience. But as someone who is fat and is not upset with my body, I find it ridiculous that she makes it a point to normalize not liking your body. That's not healthy, especially if you struggle with eating disorders. It was hard to reconcile the good parts of this book with all the bad parts. I do think there's merit in this book and I don't believe no one should read it. Just know, going in, that it has a lot of fatphobia in it and could be very triggering.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body shaming and Fatphobia