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My Body by Emily Ratajkowski

218 reviews

ashp's review

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medium-paced
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coreyarch9's review

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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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hellobillieb's review

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challenging dark emotional reflective fast-paced

3.0

Beautifully written and heartbreakingly relatable. I will be thinking about this book for a long time
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readily_reads's review

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emotional fast-paced

2.5

I really wanted to like this book, but it is a stretch to say it is a book about feminism. It’s a memoir. Really enjoyed the last essay in the book however.
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ellislilylovestoread's review

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challenging inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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bealittlebrave's review

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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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rubbertree14's review

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emotional reflective sad fast-paced

2.75

I feel sad about what the author’s gone through and appreciate her honesty with her struggle with her body and being in her own skin. It wasn’t written AMAZINGLY, but it’s her story. 
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geesammy's review against another edition

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reflective sad medium-paced

2.25

I was told this was inspiringly self aware, but I feel it was depressingly self indulgent.  Perhaps it’s the difference in generation, in ethnic background or in sense of privilege, but I found many of these stories disturbing in their depiction of a shallow girl with no common sense.  How can someone be so self absorbed and have such little self awareness or self worth?   It’s baffling and sad; I feel like she wrote this to convince herself and the world that she is a “real person” and not just an image, and yet the only thing she seems to value is her image…
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nataliegray's review

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challenging emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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daryn's review

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emotional reflective tense medium-paced

4.25

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