by Jenny McCarthy
Date Read: 5/2/14
Rating: ★
Well this book wasn’t very funny to me. It also wasn’t very helpful either. This entire book is basically just a
biography about her own pregnancy, not pregnancy in general. So if you’re hoping to read this to really
find out what to expect, pick up something different that at least shows all
the differences. Every pregnancy is
different, but this entire book only focuses on her symptoms, etc.
Things that I hated about this book:
1)
It only focused on her pregnancy. I’ve never been pregnant before so I would
like to know what I should be expecting as the weeks go on. However, I’m halfway through now and have not
experienced half the things she did, and I certainly didn’t react the way she
did. If she’s going to title her book “The
naked truth about pregnancy”, then it should run the gambit of what you can
expect. Otherwise, it should be “The naked
truth about MY pregnancy”.
2)
The language she used. She swears a lot. Using swear words is NOT necessary to get
your point across. I just found that it
was tacky and actually jarred me out of whatever annoying story she was
telling. It made me really not care
about whatever she was trying to explain to me.
Maybe you talk like that (however I don’t even think you need to swear
when you talk), but definitely not in a published book.
3)
Her relationship with her husband. My husband and I have a caring
relationship. We actually care about
each other. And though we like to tease
each other, we do it in an innocent way.
We would never tease each other in a hurtful way. Though, I do know several couples whose
relationships are built that way, and it works for them. But not for us. So her stories about how her husband would egg
her on when she was in a bad mood, or stopped the car when she had to pee, is
not something I would ever experience.
Sure, my husband might tease me about the amount of times I changed my
mind on what sounded good for dinner…but he would never make me sit down and
eat it just because he thought it’d be funny.
And I would never, ever throw something at my husband (without it being
a pillow in a teasing manner). I would
never throw TV remotes at him in a fit of rage.
Just because you’re pregnant and have more emotional fluxes, it doesn’t give
you the right to be a raging lunatic. You
still have morals free will. You can
choose to give in to it or not.
4)
Her constant mention of her “celebrity”
status. I could care less. 90% of the world does not deal with those
problems. So why is that included in a
pregnancy book? It was a brag book for
her. I don’t care that she had to watch
her weight or hide her pregnancy because she was famous. How in the heck does that relate to
pregnancy? And then the story about how
she was able to get a table at a specific restaurant because she was famous
just annoyed me to no end. That does not
help any woman who is not pregnant. UGH.
5)
The book told you a little about what happened
during labor and delivery. But it’d didn’t
go in to detail. And it certainly didn’t
tell you anything about what to expect AFTER delivery. How does a pregnancy
book not describe what to expect after delivery?
The only thing I liked about this book was that it was short. And that I was given this book by a friend
and I didn’t spend my own money on it. I
do not plan to read any more of Jenny McCarthy’s books and I certainly do not
recommend it to any first time moms.
Perhaps the people who enjoy this are ones who are on their third or
fourth kid and just need something to pass the time. So her story is more entertaining. But we moms who have never been through this
and wanted to be prepared, this book does not help one bit.
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