A review by adriiscarolina
My Body by Emily Ratajkowski

4.0

I went into the book with low expectations and it pretty much confronted me with my own prejudice. Emily uses this book as a means of self exploration, not necessarily to reach a conclusion but to see her life story in a more nuanced way. She presents her own upbringing, and her mother’s notions of beauty as the backbone of her decisions. How she has had to grapple with the assumptions that people make of her for being a model, including the dumb girl narrative (which even I fell for). 

Instead, I finished this book with a much more nuanced way of seeing the modeling industry and how it dehumanizes women as they strive to pursue their dreams. Emily does an amazing job at exploring her own relationship with her body, the very thing that sustains her livelihood as a model, yet also the thing that men lust for and profit off of, at times without her consent. It’s a tough read, but a needed one. 
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