Read My Hips: How I Learned to Love My Body, Ditch Dieting, and Live Large [Paperback]

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.“An uplifting, fat-tastic voyage to self-love, Read My Hips made me realize that I no longer need to be weighed down by constantly judging my body.  I devoured this book—it's deliciously inspiring!”
 
—Hillary Carlip, author of Queen of the Oddballs: And Other True Stories from a Life Unaccording to Plan
 
“Read My Hips is a spirited call to arms (and bellies and bare legs) to embrace ourselves inside and out. Brittingham explores and exposes the ways women are taught to hide our bodies, then boldly and humorously does the opposite. She speaks from the front lines of
standing up (or sitting on the bus) for women of all sizes who are tired of body image busybodies. Read her hips and rejoice!”
 
—Rachel Kramer Bussel, Editor, Fast Girls and Gotta Have It
 
“Read My Hips is a candid, funny, sometimes scathing chronicle of one woman's sometimes bumpy, always memorable transition from fearful fat-girl self-loathing to vibrant full-bodied joie de vivre.  If you've ever thought wistfully of all the ways your life would be better if only you were thinner, don't wait another minute to read Kim Brittingham's book.”
 
—Hanne Blank, author of BilÃ0