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“I want to calculate my beauty to protect myself, to understand exactly how much power and lovability I have.”
After getting past the large type— the biggest I’ve seen in a while— I appreciated these essays. Ratajkowski contemplates the power and vulnerability of women’s bodies. From an early age she understood how people value beauty. Her beautiful mother often reminds her of how beautiful she is and how society values beauty. An experienced model since she was a teenager, she reckons with her own body and recognizes how society treats (and mistreats) women’s bodies.
"Beauty was a way for me to feel special. When I was special, I felt my parents' love for me the most."
"My mother seems to hold the way my beauty is affirmed by the world like a mirror, reflecting back to her a measure of her own worth."
"I find other ways of constructing a mirror not unlike my mother's. I study red-carpet and paparazzi images of myself online and in the camera roll on my phone, tapping the screen to zoom in on my face as I try to discern whether I am actually beautiful."
"I've never been good about taking care of myself. Cleaning my body is not a habit I take pleasure in but a concession to social expectations; I know that being dirty is embarrassing and not feminine."
After getting past the large type— the biggest I’ve seen in a while— I appreciated these essays. Ratajkowski contemplates the power and vulnerability of women’s bodies. From an early age she understood how people value beauty. Her beautiful mother often reminds her of how beautiful she is and how society values beauty. An experienced model since she was a teenager, she reckons with her own body and recognizes how society treats (and mistreats) women’s bodies.
"Beauty was a way for me to feel special. When I was special, I felt my parents' love for me the most."
"My mother seems to hold the way my beauty is affirmed by the world like a mirror, reflecting back to her a measure of her own worth."
"I find other ways of constructing a mirror not unlike my mother's. I study red-carpet and paparazzi images of myself online and in the camera roll on my phone, tapping the screen to zoom in on my face as I try to discern whether I am actually beautiful."
"I've never been good about taking care of myself. Cleaning my body is not a habit I take pleasure in but a concession to social expectations; I know that being dirty is embarrassing and not feminine."