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My Body by Emily Ratajkowski

137 reviews

karina_dreamsinwords's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad fast-paced

4.0

a quite intense and raw look at the dark side of fame as a model/actress in the entertainment industry. so many powerful quotes that I’m sure women everywhere can unfortunately, and sadly, relate to. tread with caution and check content warnings before picking this one up.💛

“No one likes an angry woman— she’s the worst kind of villain.”

“We (women) are afraid of our anger, embarrassed by the way it transforms us. We cry to quell how we feel. Even when it’s trying to tell us something. Even when it has every right to exist.”

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kaitlinshares's review against another edition

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emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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coreyarch9's review against another edition

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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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ella1212's review against another edition

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challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

3.5

An interesting insight into the world of modeling and into how society views women’s bodies as a purely commodifiable asset, without regard for our brains, intellect etc.
as this was a series of essays I thought there would be less about Emily herself and more about societies views on women’s bodies as a whole. It felt more like an autobiography rather than essays. I also wish that there had been more in the book about how modelling isn’t something for young women to aspire to. There was little regard for the demographic that would read this book and therefore came across as a bit lacking in self awareness and dare I say empathy for the reader themselves.

oh damn pooor youuu being paid $25k to watch a football game…smh

But otherwise fascinating insight into the entertainment industry’s role in the use of women’s bodies as a means of production, something we don’t get to own or reclaim 9 times out of 10.

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