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4.02 AVERAGE
4.02 AVERAGE
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i enjoyed reading this a lot more than i expected! personal and charming, but also surprisingly frank - i was not expecting ratajkowski to talk so openly about how her desire for capital motivated her. it was very interesting to hear some of the ins of the industry, all the ways it has harmed & helped her, though i wish there was an essay about how she feels about the modeling industry present-day. overall, a thorough and deeply honest work.
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4 stars
I was very pleasantly surprised by this memoir, I really enjoyed the non-chronological narration of important episodes of her life. The focus on her relation to her body and how that was primarily determined by others (men's) perception of her body was well balanced. I also appreciated that there was dimension to this, however, not just recognizing the discordance between her physical and mental state, but reflecting on several other experiences such as the Korean spa, the gynecologist, her experience with her mothers' illness. I really loved those episodes of her daily life as it helped me understand who she was.
I do think there was more that could've been explored with this book but overall really enjoyed it.
I was very pleasantly surprised by this memoir, I really enjoyed the non-chronological narration of important episodes of her life. The focus on her relation to her body and how that was primarily determined by others (men's) perception of her body was well balanced. I also appreciated that there was dimension to this, however, not just recognizing the discordance between her physical and mental state, but reflecting on several other experiences such as the Korean spa, the gynecologist, her experience with her mothers' illness. I really loved those episodes of her daily life as it helped me understand who she was.
I do think there was more that could've been explored with this book but overall really enjoyed it.
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i really appreciate emily for writing this book. her perspective is so important to have written down and shared. she is an excellent writer - her prose is both beautiful and accessible, making it a very quick read despite the heavy content.
the main flaw i find with this book is its inapplicability to your average woman. this is an intentional act, leaning into the memoir genre and focussing on her own experience, but i do find that the commodification of women’s bodies could have been more deeply considered outside of her own niche world of high fame. having said that, the book is literally called ‘my body.’ i can’t criticise her for the work she created, but it did leave me wanting more.
the main flaw i find with this book is its inapplicability to your average woman. this is an intentional act, leaning into the memoir genre and focussing on her own experience, but i do find that the commodification of women’s bodies could have been more deeply considered outside of her own niche world of high fame. having said that, the book is literally called ‘my body.’ i can’t criticise her for the work she created, but it did leave me wanting more.
Reads more like a memoir than essays which is ok but I just didn’t personally connect with a lot of what Emily wrote about. I think another reviewer put it best when they wrote “it’s not empowering for anyone but her.” Nonetheless, I understand how healing writing can be and I’m glad she did this for herself!
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“in my early twenties, it had never occurred to me that the women who gained their power from beauty were indebted to the men whose desire granted them that power in the first place. those men were the ones in control, not the women the world fawned over. facing the reality of the dynamics at play would have meant admitting how limited my power really was—how limited any woman’s power is when she survives and even succeeds in the world as a thing to be looked at.”
i have never been a fan of emily ratajkowski before as i didn’t knew her in a public sense well enough but i do know the gist of who she was; a well-known model. what i hadn’t known was that she too was—and still are—a talented writer. everything in my body was so beautifully written and it dives into more than just the body image aspect as one thought it would be based off the title.
my body discovers ratajkowski’s lifetime from her teenage days to her career that although successful was filled with unimaginable turmoils. she talked of body image, power, privilege, sexuality in such a nuanced way that it hooks you in from the very first page. i didn’t expect myself to enjoy reading this memoir as much as i did and for that i applaud ratajkowski for making me feel this way.
in my opinion, this is a must-read for women approaching or are currently in their 20s. ratajkowski bares it all in this moving and insightful memoir of her rollercoaster story in both the eyes of the media and her own perspective. it shines the light on the mistakes you make as a young adult and the ones you made even as an adult when you thought you had it all figured out. the importance of being true to one self and to stand up for one self. the betrayal and the justice of life. this book is brilliant, nuanced and reminds you that public figures are also human no matter who they are at the end of the day.
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Audiobook. She's a talented writer. Some essays I thought were great and some came across whiney and self-inflicted to me.