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My Body by Emily Ratajkowski

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amandab0514's review against another edition

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emotional reflective medium-paced

3.0

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blynn817's review against another edition

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emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

Like many women, Emily has dozens of scary, strange, terrible experiences with men. Many of whom she felt she had to appeal to to have success. Many of whom felt totally entitled to her body. She unpacks a lot of complicated feelingd about her relationship with her own body, and other people's perceptions of it. It's relatable. It has no real conclusion. There's no one good answer for what we're supposed to feel about it. I like the way it ends, tied back to her son as an extension of her body.

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lazarr0103's review against another edition

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emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

I found this book relevant and relatable as it followed a series of compelling events in Ratajkowksi’s life. Read for class but definitely enjoyed this book!

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abicaro17's review against another edition

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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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acorny's review against another edition

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reflective medium-paced

I listened to her audiobook, mostly essays on the commodification of women’s bodies in the modeling industry. I think her writing was good and she had some interesting perspectives. A lot of her encounters with men unfortunately can be reflected in a lot of women’s lives. Even not being in that industry, her stories resonated with me. I think this would have made more sense in a memoir format, as it felt sometimes a little disconnected but the writing was good.

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shaeilidh's review against another edition

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challenging emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

This book was a very sudden and random pickup, but as soon as I read the first few pages I was hooked.

Stories about one woman's experience with her body made me feel so many things. A lot of anger for her, sympathy as I related to her.

I loved it and would v highly recommend.

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