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My Body by Emily Ratajkowski

22 reviews

macncheese_pdf's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Misogyny, Cancer, Sexual assault, and Death of parent

femme_en_feu's review

emotional informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Medical content and Cancer

lettylam's review

emotional inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Eating disorder, Cancer, Panic attacks/disorders, Misogyny, and Sexism

jessiejonesbentley's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective relaxing sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pregnancy, Cancer, Toxic relationship, Drug use, Grief, Sexism, Rape, Sexual violence, Stalking, Eating disorder, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Alcohol

karinahull's review against another edition

emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

Was thinking 3 stars until the last essay made me cry… I don’t read much nonfiction but this was really engaging. Nice work Em :)

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment, Alcohol, Cancer, Eating disorder, and Sexual assault

a_novel_craving's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Body shaming, Cancer, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Rape, and Sexual assault

doodeedoda's review against another edition

informative reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Sexual harassment, Cancer, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Pregnancy

Minor: Drug use, Eating disorder, Cursing, and Fatphobia

kaitlinshares's review

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexism, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Rape, Adult/minor relationship, and Mental illness

Minor: Eating disorder, Cancer, and Body shaming

coreyarch9's review

challenging emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

"I want more for myself. I will proclaim all of my mistakes and contradictions, for all the women who cannot do so, for all the women we've called muses without learning their names, whose silence we mistook for consent. I stood on their shoulders to get here."

In My Body, Em Rata unpacks her relationship with her body - her source of fame, her source of security, and a piece of her that is constantly evolving as she grows. 

And that's all this book is, and all it claims to be. There are other stories to dissect the particulars and modalities that are constantly in flux and in contradiction as Emily grows from a quintessential YOLO youth with pretty privilege to being thrust into the limelight as an example of what is (or what isn't) feminism, to legal cases literally determining the ownership of her likeness.

Extremely well-written and easy to connect to. I loved that there wasn't a clear angle for this book and that, instead, it embraced the conflict of different aspects of the relationship between person and body.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Drug use, Alcohol, and Stalking

Minor: Eating disorder, Cancer, and Body shaming

pun1sher's review

3.0

I think that my body's biggest issue is that it's inconsistent. The woozies, beauty lessons, buying myself back and men like you are good, even very good. But many of the essays seem to chew on through the exact same ideas again and again. Pamela, toxic, and K-spa are unremarkable and confusing. Bc hello Halle berry is probably the worst essay in the entire book, a childish and naive take on capitalism. I enjoyed Emily's essays. I enjoyed being able to look into her mind, both as a person and as a model.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol

Moderate: Medical content, Rape, Pregnancy, and Sexual assault

Minor: Cancer