Beautiful Bodies, Kimberly Rae Miller
Beautiful Bodies, Kimberly Rae Miller
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Beautiful Bodies
A Memoir

Author: Kimberly Rae Miller

Narrator: Kimberly Rae Miller

Unabridged: 4 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Published: 07/25/2017

Synopsis

A brave and witty examination of how and why we try to control our bodies with food.Like most people, Kimberly Rae Miller does not have the perfect body, but that hasn’t stopped her from trying. And trying. And trying some more. Her first attempt to use food to change her body came at age four, when she learned that the Inuit ate fat to stay warm in the winter. If this diet worked in the Arctic, she reasoned, why not in Long Island? Postcollege, after a brief stint as a diet-pill model, she became a health-and-fitness writer and editor working on celebrities’ bestselling bios—sugarcoating the trials and tribulations celebs endure to stay thin.But what is the ideal body? Knowing she’s far from alone in this struggle, Kim sets out to find the objective definition of this seemingly unattainable level of perfection. While on a fascinating and hilarious journey through time that takes her from obese Paleolithic cavewomen, to the bland menus that Drs. Graham and Kellogg prescribed to promote good morals in addition to good health, to the binge-drinking-prone regimen that caused William the Conqueror’s body to explode at his own funeral, Kim ends up discovering a lot about her relationship with her own body.Warm, funny, and brutally honest, Beautiful Bodies is a blend of memoir and social history that will speak to anyone who’s ever been caught in a power struggle with his or her own body…in other words, just about everyone.

About Kimberly Rae Miller

Kimberly Rae Miller is a bestselling author, editor, and blogger. Her 2013 memoir, Coming Clean, was picked by both Amazon and Elle magazine as one of the best books of the year, and it was a nominee for the 2013 Goodreads Choice Awards. She has written on healthy living for numerous magazines and websites, including her personal blog, www.TheKimChallenge.com. Kim lives in New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Katy O. on July 21, 2017

Thanks to the publisher for providing me with a finished copy of this book for review - all opinions are my own. Heartbreaking and intensely relatable with scientific research interwoven between stories of Miller's personal journey, BEAUTIFUL BODIES is required reading. No one in modern society can d......more

Goodreads review by Stacey A. Prose and Palate on July 29, 2017

Heartbreaking, honest, hilarious and incredibly well researched, Kimberly Rae Miller's Beautiful Bodies is an informative and wonderful read that I will be recommending to every one for a long time to come. If you have every struggled with your appearance, this book is for you. If you have ever felt......more

Goodreads review by Kristin on April 30, 2017

First I would like to thank NetGalley and publisher for allowing me access to this title and for granting me my wish!!! 😊 Being a woman with a negative body image and weight Issues myself ( the reason why I requested this title) this has always been a very hard topic for me to discuss and also very e......more

Goodreads review by Ais on June 27, 2017

This is absolutely great. It's great because we've all been there; distressed about our bodies and somehow tricked into thinking that zero calories is the optimum amount. Cutting carbs, counting macros, pretending we like kale. Kimberley Rae Miller has written her story with an honesty that is reall......more

Goodreads review by Linda on July 08, 2017

Is there such a thing as being too thin? I don’t think I know too many people who haven’t tried one diet or another. In “BEAUTIFUL BODIES A Memoir” by Kimberly Rae Miller, bestselling author of “Coming Clean”(a book about Hoarding), she discusses her obsession with having a “beautiful or perfect bod......more

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