February 6, 2023
Fatty Fatty Boom Boom by Rabia Chaudry
Born into a Pakistani family that emigrated to the U.S., Rabia Chaudry has had a lifelong battle with her weight. Raised on the carb-heavy American diet and with family genetics that tend toward being overweight, Rabia struggled with her weight all her life, viewing her body with self-loathing. Because of her weight, her Pakistani family obsessed that she would never marry, but she married before she finished college. Three pregnancies over the next 20 years didn't help her weight issues. She tried many diets and extreme exercise programs, and even had weight loss surgery. Everything she did was moderately successful, but the weight always came back. This is her account of her journey and eventual acceptance that she is never going to look like Beyonce (just like I'm never going to look like Heidi Klum). There are traditional Pakistani recipes at the end of the book that sound wonderful.
I first learned about Rabia while listening to the podcast Serial, about the Adnan Syed case. Syed was the best friend of Rabia's brother, and she has known him since he was a child. Although her parents wanted her to become a doctor, Rabia went to law school instead and ended up working on immigration issues and cases of wrongful conviction.
Rabia Chaudry
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