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4.02 AVERAGE
4.02 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
fast-paced
there’s not a whole lot I can say about this that hasn’t already been said, but I would be remiss if I didn’t note that in a just a handful of pages, Ratajkowski paints a painfully accurate and heartbreaking portrait of what it means to exist in a body that is prized and reviled in a patriarchal society. As a fat trans woman, my experience both mirrors, and contrasts Ratajkowski’s, but never contradicts, and that’s something I’m going to ruminate on for quite a while. Her writing is excellent- revealing, sobering, nuanced, and complex. More than anything else, I was so taken by the directness she takes in demonstrating the distance she feels between her body and her self- as if it is an object she is in possession of, rather than what makes her her. That separation of the conscious self from the body, due to a society of objectification, really has challenged my perspective on “beautiful people”.
women deserve so much better.
women deserve so much better.
emotional
funny
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
Content Warnings
Moderate: Misogyny, Sexism
Audiobook (1.75x)- I definitely was not expecting to like this audiobook so much but it came up on my library celebrity memoir search. Very interesting look into the model industry, photography rights and preconceived notions on the beauty industry. She showed a lot of vulnerability in this book.
This is a doozy of a memoir, but it’s so so good. It’s thoughtful and it holds nothing back — Ratajkowski lets the reader into her life as a child, her role as a daughter, her marriage, her career, everything. I’m not sure I’ve ever read a celebrity memoir this raw. Some parts — entire chapters really — made my stomach turn, and when Ratajkowski cried reading about her image/story being manipulated and profited on, I cried with her. She has dealt with so many f’ing creeps and it’s sickening to read (or hear: she reads the audiobook herself and it’s so well done but also probably even more emotional than reading it). I didn’t know much about Ratajkowski aside from seeing her in an Amy Schumer’s I Feel Pretty, in a role as the most beautiful woman — who still has insecurities, which, like Schumer’s character, I found hard to believe. Now, I believe it…and I wish I could give her a big, consensual, hug.
My favorite quote: “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.”
(especially: "whose silence we mistook for consent"…whew.)
My favorite quote: “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.”
(especially: "whose silence we mistook for consent"…whew.)
