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emiporte's review against another edition
3.75
Moderate: Rape and Sexual assault
rileymay's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Rape and Sexual assault
ejsreads's review against another edition
4.5
it was scarily relatable to thoughts most, if not all, women have likely had even though, for most of us, it is rare to live a life adjacent to a wildly famous model like Emrata
Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Medical content, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Body shaming, Cursing, Drug use, Fatphobia, Sexism, Suicide, and Alcohol
kennbass's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Pregnancy
mkgiri's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Rape and Sexual assault
nutfreenerd's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship
hngisreading's review against another edition
4.0
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
ncoletti's review against another edition
Graphic: Body shaming, Rape, and Sexual assault
sammantha's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Animal death, Body shaming, Cancer, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Blood, Medical content, Stalking, and Pregnancy
nebraskanwriter's review against another edition
3.0
“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.”
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