Beulah
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Read this on an empty stomach.
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/4884267-hillary-clinton-big-girl-michelle-obama-wanda-sykes/
In “Something Lost, Something Gained,” Clinton divulges everything from the nickname she coined for her “postmenopausal” stomach, to how a lunch with Michelle Obama left her hungry to why she’s embraced being dubbed “Big Girl” by her staff.
The former secretary of State opened up in the book, released Tuesday, about commiserating with a friend about “living in bodies we didn’t recognize” and “confronting the postmenopausal disappearance of our waistlines.”
Clinton, 76, said she decided to borrow an idea that comedian Wanda Sykes gave her: to bestow a name on her “newly thick midsection.”
“I now call mine Beulah,” Clinton wrote. The former first lady described Beulah — and her friend’s stomach, Bertha — as “stubborn old gals.” The pair decided, she said, “if the two of them won’t go away, we might as well get on speaking terms with them.”
Clinton revealed she’s also acquired her own nickname from her close-knit, longtime staff.
“Where once they called me Mrs. Clinton or Senator Clinton or Madam Secretary, today they refer to me as ‘Big Girl.’ As in, ‘Has anyone heard from Big Girl whether she’s in town to meet us for dinner?'”
“I like that it’s not ‘Boss’ or (God forbid) ‘Top Banana,'” Clinton said.
“Big Girl suits me — and the leveling of any hierarchy to these relationships — just fine.”
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Those of us with bodies like Greek Gods (Bacchus, in my case) can only sympathize with the afflicted who are no longer perfect 10's.
And yes, for any James May wannabees who may be here, I do know that Bacchus was a Roman God.
