Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

My Body by Emily Ratajkowski

15 reviews

montsebens's review

challenging emotional inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Rape, and Misogyny

Moderate: Pregnancy, Alcohol, Bullying, Body shaming, Chronic illness, and Drug use

Minor: Vomit

nnennaya_'s review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault

Moderate: Chronic illness

vanderyle's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Rape, and Misogyny

Moderate: Alcohol and Chronic illness

myk_yeah's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

I really loved this read and Emily's meditation on what it's like to have the privilege to make it big in an industry that sexualizes and objectifies you, and realize down the road you never truly achieved any power. You just got perks like money and status but that the real power continues to be in the hands of rich men who use that power to continue to do harm.
I also really appreciated the honestly with which she explores the internal conflict of wanting the attention of scary, powerful men, and how we're taught to find validation in that even though it's violent towards us. There's a promise of power and empowerment there if you can be a big girl and tough it out. Emily's not the "perfect victim" and it's important to share stories like that because it's true to life. You shouldn't have to be this "perfect victim" to have the harms done to you acknowledged and addressed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Body shaming, Bullying, Sexual assault, Sexism, Pregnancy, and Misogyny

Moderate: Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual harassment, and Alcohol

Minor: Mental illness, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, and Emotional abuse

rubbertree14's review

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

2.75

I feel sad about what the author’s gone through and appreciate her honesty with her struggle with her body and being in her own skin. It wasn’t written AMAZINGLY, but it’s her story. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Body shaming, Chronic illness, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Domestic abuse, and Eating disorder

hannibanani29's review against another edition

challenging reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Misogyny, Medical content, Chronic illness, Alcohol, Body shaming, Cursing, and Sexism

Minor: Eating disorder, Vomit, Infidelity, and Bullying

pabi's review

emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Chronic illness, Pregnancy, Rape, Toxic relationship, and Medical content

Moderate: Alcohol and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Drug use and Addiction

ablais2248's review

emotional informative reflective fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness, Drug use, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Rape, Pregnancy, and Sexism

sruhsh's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Drug use and Chronic illness

ntvenessa's review

challenging reflective medium-paced

2.5

Fascinating and incisive, but doesn't push quite far enough. Ratajkowski distills so well what it means to capitalise off your image by leveraging the male gaze. There are power dynamics and tension underlying her relationship with her own body as a result of selling her image in a landscape where beauty is defined by a white, cis-hetero patriarchy. This collection of essays is deeply personal and generous, although the temporal context is sometimes confusing to follow. There does some to be a deliberate shying away from what her work means to other women, especially young girls, who are subject to the beauty standards she reinforces. This shortsightedness is laid in stark contrast with the tenacity and heart found unmistakably in the rest of her essays, particularly in her evolving relationship with her body in the context of feminism and empowerment. I really enjoyed the tender and wise reflections on her youth and how mixed messaging around her body impacted how she saw herself. However, it seems a shame not to explore further how she herself is complicit in upholding the beauty standards that have both trapped her and lent her power (although as she writes, it is only power as bestowed on her by men and not true empowerment). I suppose when you are still capitalising off the very same system, it pays to flirt around these broader notions and keep the narrative tightly focused on the matter at hand -- and she does it well. I'd be keen to see a memoir after she leaves the industry.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Body shaming, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Colonisation, Cancer, Chronic illness, and Fatphobia

Minor: Drug abuse, Drug use, Death, Addiction, and Suicide attempt