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  • Published: 15 September 2011
  • ISBN: 9780307464385
  • Imprint: Crown
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $29.99

Read My Hips

How I Learned to Love My Body, Ditch Dieting, and Live Large



An unflinching, humorous, and uplifting memoir about food, love, body image, and living life to the absolute fullest, no matter what your jean size.

Kim Brittingham struggled for years with her weight and body image before she learned how to love her self unconditionally, find her confidence, and fully enjoy her life.  In this unflinching, humorous, and uplifting memoir, she openly explores her complex relationships with food and dieting, sex and dating, and exercise and health, ultimately inspiring every woman to live life to the absolute fullest, no matter what your jean size.

  • Published: 15 September 2011
  • ISBN: 9780307464385
  • Imprint: Crown
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $29.99

About the author

Kimberly Brittingham

Kim Brittingham is a writer and blogger whose personal essays have been published on iVillage, Salon and Fresh Yarn. She received widespread national attention, including appearances on the Today Show and NPR, when she created a mock self-help book jacket with the title, Fat is Contagious: How Sitting Next to a Fat Person Can Make YOU Fat, wrapped it around a real book, and pretended to read it while riding the buses of New York City as an informal social experiment. She divides her time between New York City and Ocean Grove, New Jersey.