Sunday, July 16, 2006

Kate Hudson to Write a Book for New Moms

Kate Hudson is planning to write a book for new moms, and will focus on addressing those self loathing "I feel like a fat cow!" post-partum feelings that plague many new mothers.

“Part of that is the way your body feels, not necessarily how it looks —
especially after you’ve gained 70 pounds,” Hudson says, reports the London Sun.
“I was depressed. I was the happiest, jolliest pregnant woman, then I had the
baby and then I was just fat. ... I didn’t lose any weight delivering. You’re
breastfeeding and you’re starving and looking at yourself in the mirror going:
‘I don’t feel good about myself.’ That is not a good feeling for any
woman.”

Please. Why would anyone want to buy a book to read about how much new moms hate their bodies when there are, like, ten gazillion free blogs about it on the internet? I guess the big sell is that it's Kate Hudson talking about how fat she feels and not some anonymous mom in Suburbia, U.S.A.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Then again, some of these celebrity mommy books can be funny. Jenny McCarthy's cracked me up.

Aisha said...

Yeah, I wonder if a lot of tehse types of books are dong worse with the advent of blogs. I mean for $0.00 I can read about dooce or others and learn that way.

Chic Mommy said...

I read Jenny's book at B&N one day when the kids were playing trains. It WAS funny, but I didn't buy it. I just kept reading a little more each time I visited B&N until I finished it. But it was written well, do you know if she wrote that herself or had a ghostwriter do it for her?

But I also think the reason that book was so popular was BECAUSE it was written by Jenny McCarthy. I don't think I would have even noticed the book if it were written by no one I've ever heard of.