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My Body by Emily Ratajkowski

20 reviews

penguiniq's review

challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Sexual assault, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual harassment, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Alcohol, and Gaslighting

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, and Toxic friendship

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

citrinuke's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Bullying, Drug use, Eating disorder, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual harassment, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Sexism, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Drug use, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Chronic illness, and Toxic relationship

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

foolishg_irl's review

challenging emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, Body shaming, Sexism, and Gaslighting

hezajc's review

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

This is one of those rare books where I wish I could rate it more than 5 stars. This book blew me away. The essays are vulnerable, raw, emotional, powerful, and infuriating (for what she has had to deal with). She covers the intersections of beauty, patriarchy, capitalism, and feminism. 

I'm usually not an audio book fan, but Emily Ratajkowski read the book and it was soooo powerful to hear her voice. I highly recommend listening to the audio version. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Eating disorder, and Gaslighting

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

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

bookswithmybulldog's review

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Eye opening, shocking, emotional, heart breaking. Really really loved this. Very important read 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Sexism, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Misogyny, and Gaslighting

Minor: Drug use and Eating disorder

missemilyn's review

challenging emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

This is a really complicated and difficult series of essays to read. It approaches sensitive and difficult topics head-on in a really beautiful, but tragic way. Emily's writing style is absolutely brilliant and you really understand just how she had to compartmentalize and rationalize her years (and decades) of severe trauma and embarrassment with her body and others' perception of her body. Absolutely genius. If you can read these topics safely, I highly recommend doing so.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Dysphoria, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Misogyny, and Mental illness

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gaslighting, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship