Eve ensler takes on the rest of the body

Now that Eve Ensler’s “Vagina Monologues” has traveled the globe, her stomach has a thing or two to add.

Ensler, the woman who transformed the vagina from a hushed “down there” into a marquee word that tumbles from the mouths of the highest-profile celebrities, has come to accept her private parts.

But it was with some horror, she says, that she looked down at her “not-so-flat, post-40s stomach” and realized her self-hatred had simply crept upward.

Thus was born “The Good Body,” Ensler’s new one-woman Broadway show about her own navel-gazing and the extreme efforts women make to shrink, starve, cover and fix their smallest imperfections.

​Her message? Learn to love your body, then get on with the bigger business of life.

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