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jesss's review
5.0
Moderate: Misogyny
Minor: Sexual assault and Sexism
mari1532's review against another edition
5.0
I also really appreciate the reflections that she had about her career and I think this work really highlights something that we as a culture are now coming to grips with. How women were treated in the press in the early 2000s and how that time set particularly harsh health and beauty standards for women. Obviously, there are still a great many problems in this area, but Ratajkowski's open discussion of the modelling industry and how she struggles with reclaiming her own image when it has been used in hundreds of campaign ads is really inspiring.
Graphic: Rape and Sexual assault
Moderate: Sexism, Body shaming, and Misogyny
carlycormier_'s review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Eating disorder, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Sexism, Rape, Misogyny, Medical content, Bullying, and Pregnancy
ferdie's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Gaslighting, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Dysphoria, Eating disorder, and Body shaming
denijaaa_s's review
2.5
Graphic: Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual harassment, and Sexual assault
Moderate: Body shaming and Sexism
candournat's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence
Moderate: Misogyny, Sexism, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Alcohol, Addiction, Drug use, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Mental illness, and Pregnancy
ebassin713's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Sexism and Sexual assault
writingcaia's review against another edition
5.0
There is also the role her family played in how she learned to see herself, always in comparison to others, always valuing her physical appearance above all, to the detriment of her psychological and physical health.
I identified in many ways with Emily, since I learned as a teen when sprouting into my woman’s body, the effect it and beauty could have on people, but also (and this before Instagram and social media) how the reverse was true. I wanted to be a model but was too short. I compared myself to the girls in Elite Model Look contest, in Ragazza’s magazine, in cinema, etc, and agonized. I am thankful not to have been born into the social media boom, although I still had and have to tackle it, and thus stress over its pressure.
I ended up being granted what I wanted as a teen, in a way, as in my mid-twenties, in a time when I did not know which direction my life should follow I, a bit accidentally, became a nude and fine-art model, then an alt-model (@suicidegirl), especially as my skin became a canvas for my self-expression. It was then, I truly saw the effects and power of my body, but like Emily, only later did I realize how I was playing into the men’s world, their rules, their gaze, to be then slandered by both men and women by what I chose and choose to be and do with my body. But without it I would not have found my bff, sister from another mister, and other close friends, I would not have met so many girls around the whole world, been in two videoclips, several TV and magazine appearances - had my so-called “15 minutes of fame”.
Thus, comparing myself with @Emrata is impossible, I am a street cat and she’s a jungle panther. Still, a lot of it resonated with me. But, I am older, older than her, and have tried, since realizing how I played into the patriarchal system one way or the other, to distance myself from an image fuelled presence, to be more discreet so to speak, and more into my inner self than outer. It was why when I started my bookstagram I aimed not to use my image on my posts, as I already had the notoriety and personal validation (and scorn), and the money I could with it. Although, I wonder if I am being silly about not using it more - posts with me in it tend to do better - and I still love to dress up, to feel sexy, to use revealing outfits, but never for others, always for myself. Unfortunately, I am judged for better or worse when I do so.
Thoughts constantly assail me about how to be who I am now without mixing with who I was before, but I am one and the same, and I can’t run from my past (nor do I want to, although I fear how it will affect my dream of becoming a published author) so I might as well learn from it. Use what serves me and trash what doesn’t.
My image can sell and it can doom me, and I will have to walk that thin ledge careful not to hurt myself.
This turned out into a very personal post but alas that’s how the book touched me.
People, especially women, no matter their image, or their beauty, are bound to this horribly patriarchal world where our bodies, our skin, and our image will be judged and controlled no matter what we do, so we might as well do and be what we want, but always aiming to be less judgmental of what others choose to do, no matter how different from our choices, as long as it doesn’t affect our fought little freedoms.
Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Rape
Moderate: Sexism, Body shaming, and Mental illness
themeanfrench's review
4.75
Graphic: Sexual violence, Rape, Sexism, Trafficking, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Misogyny
Moderate: Eating disorder, Medical content, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, and Emotional abuse
trishalah_'s review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment
Moderate: Sexism and Body shaming