Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

My Body by Emily Ratajkowski

35 reviews

samarakroeger's review

reflective medium-paced

4.0

I felt seen in several ways by this book despite our lives being pretty different.  the guilt and shame ... very relatable 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Alcohol, Dysphoria, Mental illness, Misogyny, Addiction, Cancer, and Medical trauma

graciejames121's review

challenging dark reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Gaslighting, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Body shaming, and Medical content

epellicci's review

informative reflective fast-paced

3.5

I have mixed feelings about this book. Ratajkowski's writing is definitely full of confident belief in itself, and I found the way she approached each chapter (or essay) in a different style engaging and creative. However as a reader, I found the tone of the book was defensive and somewhat lonely. I felt the premise of My Body - taking back ownership of herself and exploring the gender and power politics that have shaped her life - was struggling behind a need for the author to prove herself still. 
I really hope that writing My Body was healing and restorative for Ratajkowski. The trauma and struggle to identify her place in her world were written with astounding honesty. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexism, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Rape and Mental illness

Minor: Cancer

mary_foster_'s review

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

Many have called her a hypocrite but at the end of the day she is only human, and still growing and learning from her experiences. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Mental illness

bynarii's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Misogyny and Mental illness

Minor: Medical content and Pregnancy

nonfluorescent's review

dark informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Body shaming

Minor: Mental illness

ajoyn1201's review

emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Cursing, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, and Rape

Minor: Pregnancy

ymorii's review against another edition

challenging reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Sexual content

Moderate: Drug use

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Mental illness

leduyhxxng's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective tense slow-paced

3.0

My body is a valiant effort towards loving by Emily Ratajkowski—loving her body, and by such means opening more constructive dialogues with her self.

In the twelve very personal essays, we can begin to see Emily's stories and the power dynamics that shape modelling. Yet her writing feels rather erratic, sparse in some places and rushed in others, failing at times to connect the thematic thread that Emily herself set out. This is most unfortunate because there are unquestioningly a lot of details and images—beautifully brought out in the essay collection—that feel particularly powerful in the context of her story, but were never adequately explored.

I admire Emily's effort to love through the writing of My Body. My two favourite essays are 'Pamela' and 'Releases'. They were brilliantly written (especially 'Releases,' the final essay of the book), and feel vulnerable and honest. Other essays either feel like the honesty is somehow choking her, the writing indelicate and forced thus choking us as readers, or throwing suppressed anger at other people (which makes it quite awkward to read). But the vulnerability makes you stay, and love Emily Ratajkowski even more for taking the step.

I was fairly let down by both the writing and storytelling of the book. Then again, I greatly admire the effort to find love.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Drug abuse

Minor: Blood, Drug use, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, and Vomit

katiepearl's review

emotional inspiring fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault

Moderate: Mental illness