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4.02 AVERAGE
4.02 AVERAGE
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i really appreciate emily for writing this book. her perspective is so important to have written down and shared. she is an excellent writer - her prose is both beautiful and accessible, making it a very quick read despite the heavy content.
the main flaw i find with this book is its inapplicability to your average woman. this is an intentional act, leaning into the memoir genre and focussing on her own experience, but i do find that the commodification of women’s bodies could have been more deeply considered outside of her own niche world of high fame. having said that, the book is literally called ‘my body.’ i can’t criticise her for the work she created, but it did leave me wanting more.
the main flaw i find with this book is its inapplicability to your average woman. this is an intentional act, leaning into the memoir genre and focussing on her own experience, but i do find that the commodification of women’s bodies could have been more deeply considered outside of her own niche world of high fame. having said that, the book is literally called ‘my body.’ i can’t criticise her for the work she created, but it did leave me wanting more.
Reads more like a memoir than essays which is ok but I just didn’t personally connect with a lot of what Emily wrote about. I think another reviewer put it best when they wrote “it’s not empowering for anyone but her.” Nonetheless, I understand how healing writing can be and I’m glad she did this for herself!
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“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 the 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.”
i have never been a fan of emily ratajkowski before as i didn’t knew her in a public sense well enough but i do know the gist of who she was; a well-known model. what i hadn’t known was that she too was—and still are—a talented writer. everything in my body was so beautifully written and it dives into more than just the body image aspect as one thought it would be based off the title.
my body discovers ratajkowski’s lifetime from her teenage days to her career that although successful was filled with unimaginable turmoils. she talked of body image, power, privilege, sexuality in such a nuanced way that it hooks you in from the very first page. i didn’t expect myself to enjoy reading this memoir as much as i did and for that i applaud ratajkowski for making me feel this way.
in my opinion, this is a must-read for women approaching or are currently in their 20s. ratajkowski bares it all in this moving and insightful memoir of her rollercoaster story in both the eyes of the media and her own perspective. it shines the light on the mistakes you make as a young adult and the ones you made even as an adult when you thought you had it all figured out. the importance of being true to one self and to stand up for one self. the betrayal and the justice of life. this book is brilliant, nuanced and reminds you that public figures are also human no matter who they are at the end of the day.
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Audiobook. She's a talented writer. Some essays I thought were great and some came across whiney and self-inflicted to me.
Reading this book has not made me a better person however it was interesting to read about life through the lens of Emily Ratajowski. It surpassed my expectations.
loved this book. very interesting to see how society treats beautiful people. made me realize that no matter what you see from the outside there are challenges and problems in everyone’s lives
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A necessary, broad look at how the ownership of "image" and commodified beauty impacts the models, but Ratjkowski fails to fully bring the point home. Often, she sets up a slam dunk point about commodification through a (usually boring) story, but then fails to score the point. Maybe scoring the point would mean truly owning up to harms of the industry and reflecting on her role in representation and how it harms young women too. Her stories on exploitation and assault and important and harrowing. She is smart, writing with an acute understanding of her position as a privileged person in media -exposing our own prejudices about confident women. Yet, when she complains about the rapid spread of her images and then goes back to another shoot the next day, she misses another shot at the point! Should this story not be a call for better modeling contracts and rights for so-called Muses as a whole?
As it circles the drain without ever calling for any change, I must evoke an old adage: I think you guys might be thinking about yourselves too much.
As it circles the drain without ever calling for any change, I must evoke an old adage: I think you guys might be thinking about yourselves too much.
