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My Body by Emily Ratajkowski

19 reviews

prism_'s review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Drug abuse, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Rape, Sexual content, and Alcohol

abicaro17's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I adored this book. Its raw, real, and insightful. It feels less like a memoir or a biography and more like a well researched social commentary with real world examples. Emily Ratajkowski is primarily famous from her appearance in the Blurred Lines music video but, she started her career long before and continues it long after. In addition to writing about her industry experiences, good and bad, Emily describes the publics reactions and people close to her. Her description of multiple experiences of men in the industry taking advantage of their positions and her desperation/naivety is both profound and unfortunately relatable. As a women who is nothing like Emily Ratajkowski, she wrote of things most women experience one way or another and accurately targeted how we feel and how hopeless it is. Although it was unfortunately relatable, it was well written, engaging, and genuinely interesting. I now adore her and will fist fight someone in a Walmart parking lot for her. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, and Classism

anocturne's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Drug abuse and Suicide

morgancleaver's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny and Sexism

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, and Pregnancy

emilistevenson's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Sexual assault

Moderate: Death, Drug abuse, and Drug use

hngisreading's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Cancer, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Pregnancy and Alcohol

Minor: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Eating disorder

octoberburns's review against another edition

reflective relaxing medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault and Sexual harassment

Minor: Death, Drug abuse, and Eating disorder

nebraskanwriter's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.0

Speechless. I’ll let the quotes speak for themselves….

“I want to calculate my beauty to protect myself, to understand exactly how much power and lovability I have.”

“I liked to tell friends that the French word for model is mannequin. “So,” I’d say, shrugging, “I’m a mannequin for a living.”

“As the number on my scale went down, the number on my checks had been going up. The agency had taken notice.”

“In my early twenties, it had never occurred to me that the women who gained their power from beauty were indebted to the men whose desire granted them that power in the first place. Those men were the ones in control, not the women the world fawned over. Facing the reality of dynamics at play would have meant admitting how limited my power really was—how limited any woman’s power is when she survives and even succeeds in the world as a thing to be looked at.”

“The stylist, their assistant, the client or the editor, the other models, and sometimes the photographer will stand right in front of you and wait as you strip. You understand that your body is a means for them to accomplish what they’re here to accomplish: to make an image to sell whatever it is they’re selling. They’re in charge of it now, not you. Now hand it over, they seem to say. Your body is why you’re here and we need it. Now.”

“I look down at my body and it doesn’t  feel like my own. It feels like something, but not me. They can look at me all they want, because they’re right; my body is just a tool.” 

“The world celebrates and rewards women who are chosen by powerful men.” 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Stalking, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

arthur_ant18's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

Minor: Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, and Suicide attempt

aaliyahdreads's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

My Body is beautifully written and poignant as Emily takes us though the experience of having your body commodified. Though reading her work I found myself relating deeply with the questions she grapples with and the feelings of shame and power she describes. I have never nor will I ever live a life like she has however I see her story and her experiences in my own and in the lives of the women around me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Sexual assault