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From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Leslie McClurg in for Mina Kim.

Ever since she was a toddler, Rabia Chaudhry struggled with weight gain. She was less

than a year old when her family moved to the United States from Pakistan and adopted a love

for American junk food. Throughout her childhood, family members teased her, questioned her whether

she'd ever marry and gave her the nickname Fatty Fatty Boom Boom. Now the title of her new memoir

about how food and family have shaped her,

both metaphorically and literally. That'm Leslie McClurg. I'm in for Mina Kim.

Aromatic meat dishes, doll, kebabs. That was dinner in Pakistan before Rabia Chaudhru's family moved to the United

States, where they discovered fast food and giant supermarkets and aisles of processed foods

and brightly colored packages, all offering a new lifestyle that packed on the pounds.

Chaudhry details her painful weight gain in a new memoir, Fatty Fadi Boom Boom.

Chaudry is also a lawyer,

advocate, and host of several podcasts, including Undisclosed, which focuses on wrongful convictions in the United States. And she joins me now. Welcome, Rabia. Hi, Leslie. Thanks for having me.

Yeah, welcome. So before we dive into your new memoir, probably where many interviews are starting right now,

let's just talk briefly about your relationship with Adnan Saeed, which has been for many years.

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