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coreyarch9's review against another edition
4.0
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.
Graphic: Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment
Moderate: Drug use, Stalking, and Alcohol
Minor: Body shaming, Cancer, and Eating disorder
bealittlebrave's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Sexual assault
Moderate: Death, Drug use, Rape, Sexism, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment
Minor: Stalking and Toxic friendship
niamhbarton's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Sexual assault
Minor: Drug use
ejsreads's review against another edition
4.5
it was scarily relatable to thoughts most, if not all, women have likely had even though, for most of us, it is rare to live a life adjacent to a wildly famous model like Emrata
Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Medical content, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Body shaming, Cursing, Drug use, Fatphobia, Sexism, Suicide, and Alcohol
hngisreading's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Body shaming, Cancer, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment
Moderate: Pregnancy and Alcohol
Minor: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Eating disorder
christinereichard's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, and Alcohol
Minor: Cancer, Drug use, Medical content, and Pregnancy
sammantha's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Animal death, Body shaming, Cancer, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Blood, Medical content, Stalking, and Pregnancy
nebraskanwriter's review against another edition
3.0
“I want to calculate my beauty to protect myself, to understand exactly how much power and lovability I have.”
“I liked to tell friends that the French word for model is mannequin. “So,” I’d say, shrugging, “I’m a mannequin for a living.”
“As the number on my scale went down, the number on my checks had been going up. The agency had taken notice.”
“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 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.”
“The stylist, their assistant, the client or the editor, the other models, and sometimes the photographer will stand right in front of you and wait as you strip. You understand that your body is a means for them to accomplish what they’re here to accomplish: to make an image to sell whatever it is they’re selling. They’re in charge of it now, not you. Now hand it over, they seem to say. Your body is why you’re here and we need it. Now.”
“I look down at my body and it doesn’t feel like my own. It feels like something, but not me. They can look at me all they want, because they’re right; my body is just a tool.”
“The world celebrates and rewards women who are chosen by powerful men.”
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Stalking, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment
nosophiesallowed's review against another edition
4.5
this was hard to read but brilliant.
Graphic: Body shaming, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and Alcohol
aaliyahdreads's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Sexual assault