My Belly

About My Belly

My Belly is a haunting, intimate portrait of love, loss, and the quiet devastation of never being chosen.

Told through the raw, unfiltered voice of Samuel Reed—known in the ring as Siam Madner—this novel follows a struggling indie wrestler whose life has been shaped by abandonment, grief, and the aching desire to be seen. Raised by a mother who gave up everything for his dreams, Samuel chases purpose in small-town gyms and bruised bones, until he meets her: Isabella Vix, a wrestling prodigy, born into legacy and loved by millions.

To the world, she’s Bella—untouchable, worshipped, and already taken. To Samuel, she’s Belly, the unreachable center of a universe he was never meant to enter.

What follows is not a love story, but something more painful and true: the chronicle of a man unraveling in the presence of the one person who makes him feel alive. Through unrequited love, fleeting glances, and the unbearable weight of being invisible, My Belly explores the cruelty of timing, the cost of devotion, and the kind of heartbreak that doesn’t leave scars—it leaves silence.

Poetic, brutal, and unforgettable, My Belly is for anyone who’s ever loved in the dark and wondered if it was enough.

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Author Bio:
Barbi is a young, fiercely honest author whose work explores the tender violence of love, identity, and the spaces between who we are and who we wish we could be. With a voice that is both poetic and raw, Barbi writes about broken people with beautiful hearts—characters who love too much, fall too hard, and fight to be seen in a world that keeps looking away.

Born with a passion for wrestling and raised by stories that left her gutted, Barbi blends grit with lyricism to craft narratives that feel as brutal as they are intimate. My Belly is her debut novel—an aching, unflinching descent into obsession, grief, and the quiet ache of loving someone who may never truly be yours.

She writes for the kids who never felt chosen. And the ones still waiting to be.