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My Body by Emily Ratajkowski

17 reviews

anocturne's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Drug use

Minor: Suicide and Drug abuse

morgancleaver's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism and Misogyny

Moderate: Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment, and Sexual assault

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Terminal illness, Drug use, Drug abuse, and Eating disorder

emilistevenson's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Sexual assault

Moderate: Drug use, Drug abuse, and Death

hngisreading's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Sexual assault, Rape, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Misogyny, and Body shaming

Moderate: Alcohol and Pregnancy

Minor: Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Addiction, and Drug abuse

octoberburns's review

reflective relaxing medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault and Sexual harassment

Minor: Death, Drug abuse, and Eating disorder

nebraskanwriter's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.0

Speechless. I’ll let the quotes speak for themselves….

“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.” 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Cancer, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Grief, Sexism, Adult/minor relationship, Abandonment, Gaslighting, Medical content, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual violence, Alcohol, Body shaming, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Toxic friendship

arthur_ant18's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Alcohol, Fatphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, and Rape

Minor: Drug abuse, Forced institutionalization, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, and Medical content

aaliyahdreads's review

emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

My Body is beautifully written and poignant as Emily takes us though the experience of having your body commodified. Though reading her work I found myself relating deeply with the questions she grapples with and the feelings of shame and power she describes. I have never nor will I ever live a life like she has however I see her story and her experiences in my own and in the lives of the women around me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Sexual assault

dhutton1997's review

emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

Read TW before reading this book. 
This was a fantastic book that delved into what a woman’s body and mind is worth without the opportunities brought to them through a patriarchal society. 

My only critique of this book is that Ratajkowski seemed to liken herself as “not rich” like the billionaires she meets. However, she does have a lot of money and will be able to live comfortably if she chooses to do so. I wish she would have acknowledged that aspect of her privilege. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Misogyny, Terminal illness, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Mental illness, and Medical content

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