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Thin Is the New Happy | 
 enlarge | Author: Valerie Frankel
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 66335
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 1.1
ISBN: 0312373929
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780312373924
ASIN: 0312373929
Publication Date: September 2, 2008
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DIVP#8220;Val Frankel is a woman of amazing insight. . . . Read this, weep, and heal.#8221;/PP#8212;Stacy London, cohost of IWhat Not to Wear/I/PPYou#8217;ve heard the phrase #8220;the mirror is not your friend.#8221; For Valerie Frankel, the mirror was so much more than #8220;not a friend.#8221; It was the mean girl who stole her lunch money, bitch-slapped her in the ladies#8217; room, and cut the hair off her Barbie. /PPIIf you#8217;re like 99.9 percent of women, the war you wage with yourself over your body image begins at the ripe age of eight, and the skirmishes are fought for the next eight decades. Sometimes you/II /IIdon#8217;t even know when/II /IIyou#8217;ve/II /IIwon. (How many of us have taken out a photo from high school and thought, #8220;Hey! I looked great#8212;why didn#8217;t /III/II know it?#8221;) This book is for anyone who has spent most of her life on#8212;or thinking about being on#8212;a diet. It#8217;s for anyone who ever wished for candlelight in dressing rooms. It#8217;s for anyone who has ever owned a pair of #8220;fat pants.#8221; In short, this book is for anyone who ever felt good or bad about themselves based on how they look. /II/I/PPValerie Frankel, like most women, has spent most of her conscious life on a diet, thinking about a diet, ignoring a diet, or failing on a diet. At age eleven, her mother put Val on her first weight-loss program. As a teen, she was enrolled in Weight Watchers (for which she invented creative ditching methods). As a young woman, her world felt right only when she was able to zip a certain pair of jeans. Not wanting to pass this legacy on to her own daughters, Valerie set out to cleanse herself of her obsession. IThin Is the New Happy/I is the true story of one woman#8217;s quest to exorcise her bad body-image demons, to uncover the truths behind what put them there, and to learn how to truly love herself. It#8217;s a poignant, hilarious, and all-out honest account of one woman#8217;s struggle with body image#8212;the filter through which she#8217;s always seen the world#8212;and the way she ultimately overcame it. /P/DIV
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| Customer Reviews: Read 12 more reviews...
 Waste of time and money December 27, 2008
Marin L. (New York, NY)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Everyday observations presented as if they're insights. A woman of average intelligence, humor, appearance and accomplishment spends a ton of energy trying to find a way in which she's superior to pretty much everyone she meets. If you take for granted that there are lots of people smarter, kinder, more accomplished and more attractive than you (regardless of their upbringing), as well as that there are lots of people less intelligent, accomplished, fun and attractive than you, you've already moved past this book.
 This is definitely happier December 23, 2008
Cristina Mullins (Great Falls, VA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a fun read. Definitely relate-able if you're like so many of us that struggle with some extra pesky pounds.
Wasted calories December 12, 2008
Sus
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I can't believe this woman wrote this book and others are actually rapturous about finding it useful. To think that all that time and mental energy were spent on the old daughter-blaming-mother story...this time about weight, of all things. I would tell Valerie Frankel to "get a life" but, amazingly, it appears she has managed to do it in spite of her busy dieting schedule and obsessing about her childhood. I am so glad I only borrowed this book. I would be on my way to get a refund otherwise. br / br /In case anyone thinks these are the comments of a whippet-thin person, I too have struggled with weight issues since I was a teenager (too many years to count). Otherwise, why would I have wanted to read this book? But it was of no use to me; sorry. The reason why this book is a fast read is because it is empty - and the one thing that is thin about it, beside its page count, is its content!
 slim results December 4, 2008
Julia M. Townsend (metairie, la)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Frankel's book starts out engagingly enough, and I empathized with her struggles and the bullying and cruelty she had to endure in school. Ultimately, though, her prose wears very thin.(Pun intended). As the book progresses, Frankel resorts to boasting, and comes across as a real snob. Yeah, her childhood tormenter Z. was a crude and hateful jerk, but Frankel seems to think the fact that she lives in the Northeast and not in the "soulless state" of Florida elevates her to cultural sainthood. As does her "striving" nature. Stuff like this cheapens what might have been an interesting memoir.
A candid memoir November 30, 2008
Janice (Arlington, VA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
In "Thin is the New Happy," Valerie Frankel chronicled her struggle with dieting and her obsession to be thin. Valerie's mother had always been overly critical of her appearance, and more specifically her weight, and this has influenced how she viewed herself, and her constant yo-yo dieting. This was a memoir about how she overcame that obsession, and to learn to accept herself for who she really is. br / br /Most women can probably identify themselves with Valerie, the need to be "thin", and the struggle with having positive self-image. This very candid memoir from a popular women's fiction author brought to light the issue that young women struggle with, and how this is a problem that needs to be addressed. This was a quick read - nothing new or insightful per se, but should appeal to women who has issues with their weight.
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