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My Body by Emily Ratajkowski

46 reviews

karinahull's review against another edition

emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

Was thinking 3 stars until the last essay made me cry… I don’t read much nonfiction but this was really engaging. Nice work Em :)

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment, Alcohol, Cancer, Eating disorder, and Sexual assault

doodeedoda's review against another edition

informative reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Sexual harassment, Cancer, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Pregnancy

Minor: Drug use, Eating disorder, Cursing, and Fatphobia

reneeandreea's review

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Misogyny, and Sexual content

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Body shaming, Blood, Death, Eating disorder, Adult/minor relationship, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Medical content, Infidelity, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Drug use

myk_yeah's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Body shaming, Bullying, Sexual assault, Sexism, Pregnancy, and Misogyny

Moderate: Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual harassment, and Alcohol

Minor: Mental illness, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, and Emotional abuse

coreyarch9's review

challenging emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

"I want more for myself. I will proclaim all of my mistakes and contradictions, for all the women who cannot do so, for all the women we've called muses without learning their names, whose silence we mistook for consent. I stood on their shoulders to get here."

In My Body, Em Rata unpacks her relationship with her body - her source of fame, her source of security, and a piece of her that is constantly evolving as she grows. 

And that's all this book is, and all it claims to be. There are other stories to dissect the particulars and modalities that are constantly in flux and in contradiction as Emily grows from a quintessential YOLO youth with pretty privilege to being thrust into the limelight as an example of what is (or what isn't) feminism, to legal cases literally determining the ownership of her likeness.

Extremely well-written and easy to connect to. I loved that there wasn't a clear angle for this book and that, instead, it embraced the conflict of different aspects of the relationship between person and body.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Drug use, Alcohol, and Stalking

Minor: Eating disorder, Cancer, and Body shaming

bealittlebrave's review

challenging emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

I *loved* this. So insightful and observant, these extremely personal essays moved me deeply.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault

Moderate: Sexism, Sexual harassment, Death, Alcohol, Drug use, Rape, and Pregnancy

Minor: Stalking and Toxic friendship

nataliegray's review

challenging emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Body shaming, Classism, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

pun1sher's review

3.0

I think that my body's biggest issue is that it's inconsistent. The woozies, beauty lessons, buying myself back and men like you are good, even very good. But many of the essays seem to chew on through the exact same ideas again and again. Pamela, toxic, and K-spa are unremarkable and confusing. Bc hello Halle berry is probably the worst essay in the entire book, a childish and naive take on capitalism. I enjoyed Emily's essays. I enjoyed being able to look into her mind, both as a person and as a model.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol

Moderate: Medical content, Rape, Pregnancy, and Sexual assault

Minor: Cancer

hannibanani29's review against another edition

challenging reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Misogyny, Medical content, Chronic illness, Alcohol, Body shaming, Cursing, and Sexism

Minor: Eating disorder, Vomit, Infidelity, and Bullying

megmahoney1's review

challenging reflective fast-paced

3.0

I found this book really thought provoking and relatable in a way that surprised me. I didn’t expect to so much in common with a model regarding the way I think about myself and how I look. I think Emily Ratajkowski poses and explores some interesting feminist questions through telling her own personal experiences as a model and celebrity. These were explicitly  answered by her in any conclusive way but I’m not sure if that was intentional. This was also a super quick read. 

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Alcohol, Pregnancy, Misogyny, and Mental illness