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My Body by Emily Ratajkowski

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blynn817's review against another edition

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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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sistinem24's review against another edition

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emotional reflective medium-paced

3.0

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emotional

4.0

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plantbetti's review against another edition

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challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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codecat's review against another edition

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emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

The fact that anyone is saying this is unrelatable because of her lifestyle is wild to me. These essays were so human and real.
She discusses autonomy, power dynamics, learning when and how to speak up for ourselves, and whether we are making choices because it’s what we want or because we feel like we have to. These are all nuanced things we learn and absorb growing into ourselves, especially as women. Very impactful.

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