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If my hatred of my belly was a person, she would be old enough to have completed a lengthy education and given me grandchildren. An unflinching and feminist portrait of one woman's obsession with her belly and the cultural and social norms that feed that obsessionfor readers of Nora Ephron's classic memoir I Feel Bad About My Neck. Hilde Ostby says she's never entered a room without thinking about her belly. She can't stand it. So [she] decided to really examine why she spent most of her adult life hating how she looked.NPR Weekend EditionHilde Ostby is an acclaimed cultural critic and successful writer living in Norway. At the start of My Belly, she is on tour in London, promoting her latest book about the culture and science of memory. As she poses for a photograph for the London Times, she silently worries about how her belly will look on the front page of the Arts section. Later, she realizes how ridiculous this is: she's being celebrated for an intellectual achievement, and y
