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A review by annmariereads
My Body by Emily Ratajkowski
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
5.0
This book is incredible. Emily is incredible. Hollywood is awful. Just read it.
I won’t lie to you. I was not planning on reading this. I thought, do I really need to read about body iSsUeS from an actual supermodel?
I was wrong.
Ratajkowski analyzes what it means when your body is a product to others. Whether it’s your body-obsessed family, your abusive boyfriend, a magazine, a director, whoever, these people feel like they have some kind of ownership over your body.
Each chapter is just as hard-hitting as the next. The short vignettes in the first chapter about her childhood and the importance her family placed on beauty immediately sucked me in. Our author goes on to talk about the infamous Robin Thicke video, a photographer that made books of her photographs without her permission, and my personal favorite - an open letter to a gross old man who terribly misrepresented her.
While at times I still found myself wanting to eye roll and think oh wow, it must be so hard to be 😭 too beautiful 😭, this is her story and she fully takes down the creepiness and abusiveness of the fashion and film industry with her writing.
I won’t lie to you. I was not planning on reading this. I thought, do I really need to read about body iSsUeS from an actual supermodel?
I was wrong.
Ratajkowski analyzes what it means when your body is a product to others. Whether it’s your body-obsessed family, your abusive boyfriend, a magazine, a director, whoever, these people feel like they have some kind of ownership over your body.
Each chapter is just as hard-hitting as the next. The short vignettes in the first chapter about her childhood and the importance her family placed on beauty immediately sucked me in. Our author goes on to talk about the infamous Robin Thicke video, a photographer that made books of her photographs without her permission, and my personal favorite - an open letter to a gross old man who terribly misrepresented her.
While at times I still found myself wanting to eye roll and think oh wow, it must be so hard to be 😭 too beautiful 😭, this is her story and she fully takes down the creepiness and abusiveness of the fashion and film industry with her writing.