Rabia Chaudry, FATTY FATTY BOOM BOOM: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Zibby is joined by New York Times bestselling author, attorney, advocate, and Undisclosed podcast host Rabia Chaudry to discuss her mouthwatering and deeply thoughtful new book Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family. Rabia reveals the inspiration behind this project and shares the intimate stories of her food and weight journey, from chewing on frozen sticks of butter as a baby to eating in secret to finally getting gastric sleeve surgery. She also talks about her divorce, modeling healthy habits for her children, her favorite memoirs (including David Ambroz’s A Place Called Home!), and her best advice for aspiring authors.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, the creator and host of the award-winning podcast that you're listening to right now. |
| 0:07.8 | Thank you so much called Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:10.7 | It is a daily podcast 365 days a year, and each day we talk to an author about all of the things related to their career, their book, their life, and more in 30 minutes or |
| 0:21.1 | less, because who has time? I am now an author myself, although I wasn't when I started this |
| 0:25.9 | podcast, and you can get my new memoir, Bookends, a memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature, |
| 0:31.8 | wherever books are sold starting July 1st, and my children's book, Princess Charming. You can |
| 0:37.4 | learn more about me at Zibby Owens.com, |
| 0:39.5 | but really you're here to learn more about the authors, |
| 0:42.2 | and that is what we're going to do. |
| 0:44.4 | Also, be sure to check out all the other podcasts |
| 0:46.9 | in the ZCast Podcast Network. |
| 0:49.4 | You can learn more at ZCastnetwork.com |
| 0:51.9 | and definitely check out those shows as well. |
| 0:58.4 | Thank you. at Zcastnetwork.com and definitely check out those shows as well. Rabia Chaudry is the author of Fatty Fadi Boom Boom, a memoir of food, fat, and family. |
| 1:05.3 | Rabia is an attorney advocate and author of the New York Times bestselling book Adnan's |
| 1:09.8 | Story, an executive producer of the HBO documentary series The Case Against Adnan Syed. |
| 1:16.0 | Rabia is also co-producer and co-hosts of the podcast Undisclosed, The 45th, Nighty Night and the Hidden Gin. |
| 1:23.2 | With over 400 million downloads, that's insanely amazing and makes me feel like a complete failure. But anyway, with over 400 million downloads, that's insanely amazing and makes me feel like a complete failure. |
| 1:30.3 | But anyway, with over 400 million downloads, Undisclosed is the most popular wrongful conviction podcast in the world. |
| 1:37.7 | The undisclosed team has helped exonerate a dozen defendants and find new evidence to get nearly all their defendants back in |
| 1:44.9 | court. Rabia is a 2021 Aspen Institute, ADL Civil Society Fellow, and was a 2016 Aspen Ideas |
| 1:52.5 | scholar and on the Vanguard Board at the Aspen Institute. She's a fellow of the Truman National Security |
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