This was a book that my book club won through book movement. It is the memoir of Monica Parker, apparently a famous writer and actress in Hollywood that I have never heard of and I did't recognize her picture not the back cover either. This is her story of her struggle with her weight and her need to be accepted and loved. She is born in Scotland and moves to Canada during childhood, somehow she becomes involved in a Canadian Fitness show, although she is overweight, or as she puts it fat. She meets the love of her life in Canada, then after her parents death she decides to move to Hollywood. Why, she is already struggling with her self esteem and body issues, and she move to the most superficial place on earth and seems surprised that it causes more complexes. At some point she comes to accept that she is a fat woman in a thin society, after a meal in complete darkness of all things.
I didn't get this book. It was supposed to be super funny, and it wasn't. I mean I got a few chuckles, but nothing to write home about. Monica didn't really seem to learn to love herself, at the end of the book she is still struggling and still trying to loose weight, just not on a fad diet anymore. I think I missed the point entirely. I struggle with body issues, I have gained weight after my children were born that hasn't gone away. I am lazy though, and I haven't really tried to loose the weight. I suspect if I actually attempted and ran into a wall I would be more sympathetic to her. She never joined a gym, and the one time she used a personal trainer she decided it was too hard and fired her. I understand struggling to love your body, but it never seemed that Monica did learn to love herself.
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