Review: Belly Laughs by Jenny McCarthy
Posted on | October 12, 2009 | 4 Comments
I should start out this review by saying that I didn’t have high hopes for this book. I’d heard all kinds of wonderful things from pregnant or recently pregnant people about it. I heard it was hilarious, sarcastic, kind of scary, honest, and a fun read. Most importantly, I had heard nothing negative about it, which always kind of worries me. It especially worries me when women who are just as hormonally imbalanced and, let’s face it, practically psychotic as I am ALL loved this book.
I recalled from my MTV days that Jenny McCarthy’s humor is pretty comparable to that of an inebriated 19-year-old, frat boy. However, I thought that might make for a pretty damn funny book about pregnancy, which is by nature pretty disgusting at times. Unfortunately, this book didn’t even provide that kind of humor. Maybe the publisher made her tone it down. I don’t know. What I do know is that I would have to be drunk to find this even remotely funny (and if I were drunk, I’d probably find something way more entertaining to do than suffer through this terrible book).
McCarthy attempted to create a conversational tone. You know, like what you’re reading is really just like talking to your best gal pal on your cell. Only problem is that kind of tone is like, totally difficult to swallow when its obviously forced. In fact, both the language and tone is this book made me wonder whether McCarthy hired someone’s preteen kid to write it. No kidding; it is that bad.
My final word on this book: I’m so glad that all I paid for it was $1 at a yardsale. Jenny, I know you’ve written half a dozen books now, including ones about autism (don’t even get me started, lady) but maybe this is not your calling. Perhaps –and this is just a suggestion– you should leave the writing to people who are actually writers, the doctoring to people with MDs, and go back to doing whatever it is you did before.
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October 13th, 2009 @ 7:13 am
I flipped through this at a store once and it did little for me. I think McCarthy is better suited as being an advocate for children damaged by vaccines, and I encourage her in that pursuit.
October 13th, 2009 @ 11:56 am
Her opinions on vaccines bother me, too. Not vaccinating our children can put a whole generation at risk of some pretty horrible diseases. I honestly feel that people who have decided that vaccines cause autism are not looking deeply enough. There are far more things in modern society that could lend to this boom in autism than vaccines that worked wonderfully for the past five or six generations and did not cause autism (even when some of them contained ingredients like mercury.)
Her energy and activism is fantastic. I hope she and others continue to fight for answers, but suggesting that parents not vaccinate is a very worrisome subject to me.
October 16th, 2009 @ 4:51 pm
The only pregnancy book I’ve been able to read was ‘Up the Duff’ by Kaz Cook. Everything else made me irritated, upset or angry (I’m talking all the nonfiction stuff. )
‘Up the Duff’ was different – honest, funny, informative and not overwhelming. It’s australian though, so it might be hard for you to find.
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October 18th, 2009 @ 7:19 pm
Thanks for leaving a note on my blog.
I’ve never been pregnant or read anything by Jenny McCarthy. I did see her on Oprah talking about autism an her son. I can’t really remember what she said about anything. Beyond that I don’t know who she is either. I think it’s odd how people put trust and faith in actors, as if they know more than any other random person. However, they are nice as eye candy.
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