Reviews with content warning for Adult/minor relationship - My Body

This one is hard to read, only because it hits where it hurts. Emily Ratajkowski (who I wasn’t even aware of in the midst of the Blurred Lines video) is a woman I’ve never really thought to engage with. I’m not the conventionally pretty person she has in her followings. However, after this book I thought I should definitely delve more into her and her art! 😳

The tie in between womanhood and capitalism gripped me. The way Ratajkowski talks through her experiences, always being pretty with big boobs and starting modelling early, was interesting but unpretentious. Although I could not relate, I could only feel sympathy 🥲

There were many moments where I wanted to write down bits as quotes to look back on, but here are the 2 that sat with me most:

‘I was a young woman who placed her self-worth in the hands of men like you.’

‘No one likes an angry woman. She is the worst kind of villain: a witch, obnoxious and ugly and full of spite and bitterness. Shrill. I do anything to avoid that feeling, anything to stop myself from being that woman. I try to make anything resembling anger seem spunky and charming and sexy.’

The one about angry women made me GASP.

We suffer so, so much as women 🥺

This one gets a 4.5 out of 5 star rating from me. Thank you ❤️

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ichthusangel's review

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challenging reflective tense fast-paced

4.5

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tpasta's review

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dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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reneeandreea's review

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emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

4.75

Powerful, moving, and a testament to what it means to be a woman in our modern age. Emrata is an artist, through and through.

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myk_yeah's review against another edition

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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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