Big butts and pink nipples - the Palin book has it all

THE much awaited – by her enemies if not her friends – biography of Sarah Palin, The Rogue, is on sale from today. For those who can't wait, here, thanks to the US site Gawker, are two brief extracts that give a flavour of Joe McGinniss's book and of the relationship between Palin and her husband, 'First Dude' Todd Palin.

PINK NIPPLES

The first relates to her meeting Todd, then married to his first wife Sarah, in his home town of Dillingham, Alaska in the 1980s.

"Todd hit on me," Palin said. "During summer, the fishing season, Todd was out there, and they'd all flirt with me. I'd probably flirt back.

"I remember coming out of a restaurant one day and Todd was in his old Ford truck with a boat hooked up to the back, and he was like, 'Come here.'

"I had on these overalls with a bikini top, and he said 'I hear lots about you.' Then he said 'Turn around,' and I said, 'What?' and he said 'I hear you got a great heart-shaped ass' and 'Aren't you just adorable?'

"Todd was hot back in the day, and I remember thinking, 'Hmmm.' Then I found out he was married. I was like, 'Well, I don't roll that way.'

"J.D. had one of those big Native steams behind his house and he always invited the white girls. A bunch of us would go over.

"One day Todd made a comment about my nipples being pink. I said, 'You've never seen me naked,' and he said, 'Well, maybe there's a peephole.' Todd and his friends had been peepin' on us for months. And he wasn't some horny teenager; he was a grown and married man."

BIG BUTTS

This comes from the mid-1990s by which time Sarah and Todd were married (they eloped). She was a regular at the local gym while she campaigned for political office in Wasilla, Alaska.

A friend of Palin's told McGinnis: "One morning... Sarah came back in her workout stuff— her outfits were very provocative— and she's singing, 'I like big butts and I cannot lie,' and she's dancing around the kitchen.

"Todd comes in from the garage, and Sarah starts going on about how the guys are checking her out at the workout place. The way she's saying it is totally antagonising Todd, and he finally says, 'Well, why don't you put some fuckin' clothes on?'"

'The Rogue' by Joe McGinnis is published by Crown. ·