Hillary Clinton shares nickname she gave her ‘postmenopausal’ midsection

Hillary Clinton tackles plenty of weighty topics — former President Trump, the future of democracy and reproductive rights — in her new book, but she’s also sharing some of her lighter side.

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.”

Clinton also detailed being invited to lunch at the White House by Michelle Obama shortly after President Obama took office.

“At a small table looking out over the Truman Balcony, we bonded over the challenges of raising a family in a fishbowl and over her plans to use her platform as First Lady to promote child health through nutrition and exercise,” Clinton recalled.

But Obama, who would later launch her “Let’s Move” anti-childhood obesity initiative, was “practicing what both she and her husband preached about healthy eating and exercise” at the luncheon, according to Clinton.

“I agreed with them in principle but fell short in practice,” Clinton lamented.

“Lunch was delicious but portion-controlled, and I remember getting back to my office at the State Department in urgent need of a snack.”

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