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My Body. Was es heißt, eine Frau zu sein by Emily Ratajkowski

23 reviews

caroisreading's review against another edition

challenging reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

I wasn't sure what to expect when I decided to read Emily Ratajkowski's memoir. I know her as Emrata, a very surface-level idea of her persona. She wrote from this perspective, and deeply reflects from this perspective -- I'm known as the sexy model who has collected a following, but is my influence truly power if defined by capitalism, defined by men?

My heart broke over and over with every sexual assault, every moment stolen by older men. She writes beautifully and simply about her body as something she's detached from. She's commoditized the male gaze, its own form of power, but even that is taken away from her. The traumatic detail she has to share is needed, in a world that doesn't want to listen to her more than look. 

This was hard material to read through, though I'm glad I did, to see more reality, and less posturing that's fed to us through celebrity. Emily is a survivor, and I appreciate her words and reflection. Looking forward to reading more from her!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Sexual assault, Alcohol, Sexual violence, Drug use, Cancer, Sexual content, Rape, Body shaming, and Misogyny

macncheese_pdf's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Misogyny, Cancer, Sexual assault, and Death of parent

femme_en_feu's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Medical content and Cancer

lettylam's review against another edition

emotional inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Eating disorder, Cancer, Panic attacks/disorders, Misogyny, and Sexism

jessiejonesbentley's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective relaxing sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pregnancy, Cancer, Toxic relationship, Drug use, Grief, Sexism, Rape, Sexual violence, Stalking, Eating disorder, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Alcohol

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

a_novel_craving's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Body shaming, Cancer, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Rape, 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

kaitlinshares's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexism, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Rape, Adult/minor relationship, and Mental illness

Minor: Eating disorder, Cancer, and Body shaming

coreyarch9's review against another edition

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