Skinny Bitch (Deluxe Edition): A No-Nonsense, Tough-Love Guide for Savvy Girls Who Want to Stop Eating Crap and Start Looking Fabulous AND Skinny Bitch: In The Kitch

by Rory Freedman, Kim Barnouin

Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin’s New York Times Bestselling tart-tongued odes to healthy eating and veganism – Skinny Bitch and Skinny Bitch in the Kitch’ – are now available together for the first time in hardcover, exclusively packaged in a deluxe slipcased box set.

Genres: Nonfiction, Cookbooks, Personal Development

416 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2008

About the author

Rory Freedman is the co-author of "Skinny Bitch". She attended the University of Maryland, and used to not like writing, but has developed a passion for writing due to her passion for the subjects that she writes about. She wrote "Skinny Bitch" because she is passionate about not being skinny or being a bitch, but to educate everyone about becoming vegetarian and vegan. Rory Freedman was not always a vegan, or vegetarian. Growing up she ate meat every day. Her passion for becoming vegetarian and vegan developed about 15 years ago. Her passion developed due to reading an article about animals being slaughtered for food. She always saw herself as an animal lover and she was disgusted by what she saw in the article. One image was of baby chickens crammed into a garbage bag and thrown into a dumpster. The next picture she sees is a picture of a mother cow and a baby cow. The baby was taken away from the mother, and being upset that she baby was taken away from her, she started to ram the cage and broke her neck. The mother cow was left there to lay and die with a broken neck. The other picture she saw was of a downer cow, an injured cow, on the back of a truck being unloaded by a chain wrapped around the cows legs. She was devastated to know that animals were being treated this way due to her eating meat. After reading this article in the magazine, she made the decision to become vegetarian. She did not want to contribute to the torture and slaughter of animals. The sole reason she became a vegetarian was so that she did not have to be part of the pictures that she saw.

Since she became vegetarian, she was now interested in doing more research on nutrition. People always said that vegetarians lack protein and other things that your body needs, so therefore she conducted research and found that these statements and assumptions are not true. Rory found out that by becoming vegetarian, you do not lack protein, and that most Americans actually have too much protein in their diets. Becoming a vegetarian had a total change on Rory. She felt as though she became nicer, happy, had more energy, and overall a better person. She became an animal rights activist due to her passion for animals. After making these changes, she felt as though she had a purpose in life. Rory encourages people to try a 30 day Veg Pledge. This is trying to be vegetarian for 30 days to just try to and see if you like the changes that your body will go through.

*Rory Freedman, a former agent for Ford Models, is co-author of the #1 New York Times bestselling books.
She resides in Los Angeles.

Reviews

[Suzanne · Rating 4 out of 5]

Now I remember why I was a vegetarian. Yikes. Is it likely that I will become one again? Yes. I will attempt to go vegan, but I doubt I'll be able to do it (I do love me some eggs and yogurt). And there's no way in hell I'm giving up blue crabs.

Will my husband be able to handle this? No. So there is going to be a pretty divided household. I think we'll manage, we somehow always do.

Not really a diet book, but a good idea for those trying to lose weight I guess. Its more about living a healthy lifestyle than losing weight. I always knew eating too much protein was bad for diabetes (despite all the "evidence" to the contrary) - just proves I should listen to myself more often.

The cookbook is useful, but I think I'd have been better served to just buy one of the ones recommended in the back of Skinny Bitch.

[Kim · Rating 5 out of 5]

It definitely made me look at food differently. I'm all ready someone who constantly reads food labels, but this book has made me look even more. I actually carry the book with me when I go shopping because it has a list of ingredients that are bad for vegetarians & vegans. While the authors try and persuade the reader to become vegan, they seem to understand that it is a difficult choice to make and accept that being vegetarian is much better than being a meat eater. The slaughter house chapter made me cry and I don't even eat meat - but if I did, I would give it up after reading this chapter. All in all a great read and would recommend it to everyone.

[Shadini Zabaneh · Rating 5 out of 5]

Skinny Bitch was one hell of a good read! I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. It was an eye opening experience and it helped to expose how corrupt the food industry really is. Not that I needed it but this book reinforced my commitment to Veganism and makes me prouder than ever to be apart of this lifestyle. I appreciated the authors' humor which had me bursting with laughter! The foul language just helped to drive their points home. Kudos to the authors.

[Rona · Rating 3 out of 5]

Now, I understand what somone recently was talking about when they said Corn Syrup was bad. I am on the 4th Chapter and this is not a book of fluff. I already know I will never drink another Diet Soda!

[Jolene Salls · Rating 4 out of 5]

As with all diet books, I am sure there has been some serious hype to this book with the treatment of animals and the amount of chemicals we put in our bodies. With that said, it still had an effect on me and I no longer eat meat and feel good about not being apart of the demise of living animals.

[Schellmarie]

I was cracking up by the second page.

[Reema · Rating 2 out of 5]

that some people are more acerbic than I am

[Ashley · Rating 5 out of 5]

this book seriously changed my life.

[Victoria · Rating 5 out of 5]

Changed my LIFE!!!

[Eliza Geeski · Rating 3 out of 5]

Be ready to rid of soap in your mouth.
Perhaps being a
'' Skinny Bitch" requires one to use the censor button, one time too many.