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4.02 AVERAGE
4.02 AVERAGE
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
The author is beautifully open about her experiences and thoughts
I enjoyed this more than I expected. It made me think a lot about privacy, and the commodification of women’s bodies. It also made me think about the ways other women might abandon those women in proximity to extreme wealth and fame because we resent their proximity to the men who hold the keys to everything - money, security, respect. And I understand her point that this proximity still did not give her access. But I wish she could have held that ambivalence more. Of course she was a victim but this particular industry is built on women’s oppression - not just her own but all the women who will never see the kind of money and luxury she sees. I am interested in how to hold that duality. At the same time, I imagine she’s been asked to perform guilt a lot throughout her career and there’s something powerful in her choice not to do that in this book. Still, it really killed me every time she reminded us that she’s from a middle class background. I’d be curious to see her write the same book in thirty years.
You see the title and think, surely this book isn't just about her body... but it totally is. While Emily is very articulate and details such horrible details of abuse and misogynic aspects of the industry, she goes back and forth between wanting people to understand she doesn't want her body to be commodified, to detailing all the ways she herself commodifies her own body. It's a thin line between empowering and sad, I guess..
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
fast-paced
challenging
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
Hard to rate memoirs/set of essays in my opinion, but these sets of stories are vivid, captivating, and showcases an honest human perspective to an industry that leaves women in husks by design
The first two essays felt really strong and interesting. But like introductions instead of the whole story. The whole rest of the story felt like she really held back from sharing herself. — Which is fine even celebrities can and should have private lives but the book towed a line instead of sinking its teeth into a truth.
She was just asking us to believe she used to be not rich. and just because she’s hot doesn’t mean she’s dumb.
She was just asking us to believe she used to be not rich. and just because she’s hot doesn’t mean she’s dumb.
emotional
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
reflective
fast-paced
I am speechless. I found myself completely tethered to this book after completing it, not wanting to let it go, and continued to walk around my apartment with it in tow for a great while after, completely attached. Despite Emily's life experience and style being significantly scaled, I felt so seen in every chapter of her book. The female experience is immensely complicated, whether it's our relationship with our body (the safety it provides when it's viewed as pretty, the monetary gains it can give, the stress and fracture of self it can create when trying to appease societal norms and expectations), power, control, society as a whole and people individually, the deep disconnection between mind, body, and spirit that forms from this fractured, segmented, stereotyped, misognistic and limiting view of the female experience, I feel like Emrata covered every topic in such a deeply personal, effortless way. I wrote another review ahead of this one that went into more detail, unfortunately there was an issue with storyblock as there so often is (I will be saving this one at least in a separate document so that I can easily copy/paste in the future, should storyblocks continue to glitch, as it so regularly does I wish we had more competitors for digitally logging books in a somewhat communal way, but alas, a ramble for another day). I'm going to be thinking about this one for a long time and am so grateful I own it.