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A review by sophiehatters
My Body by Emily Ratajkowski
4.0
before i attempted to write this review, i scoured through other people’s reviews first to get a picture of how other people felt after reading this book. unsurprisingly, they were a lot of negative ones among the flowery, positive ones.
it’s hard for me to put into words, in terms of what i felt and thought of my body, because emily is actually a real person. i won’t feel good about leaving a scathing review when she poured her heart out into this book—sharing some of her darkest moments in life. i would feel mean.
in some ways, i empathised a lot with emily. it couldn’t have been easy growing up as a beautiful girl and being told that that was all you could ever be—to know that your whole worth as a human being was all about how you look. younger me would have been envious of all she had, but the current me thought her early life was sad, and exhausting to boot.
on the other hand, i could see what other people are saying; that even though emily is aware of how incredibly problematic the industry is, she has no issue profiting from it. i can understand why people thought her hypocritical and self-absorbed. at the end of the day, she is just another privileged white cishet woman who will continue to profit from the system.
i think that, it’s also important to note that emily is human. so as humans do, she’s not going to be perfect. i think she’s also learning and unlearning all the problematic stuff as she goes. she contradicts herself. she has internalised misogyny she needs to work on. she is self-aware, but at the same time there are other issues where she severely lacks it. and you know what? i’m okay with that. i hope she continues to learn.
it’s hard for me to put into words, in terms of what i felt and thought of my body, because emily is actually a real person. i won’t feel good about leaving a scathing review when she poured her heart out into this book—sharing some of her darkest moments in life. i would feel mean.
in some ways, i empathised a lot with emily. it couldn’t have been easy growing up as a beautiful girl and being told that that was all you could ever be—to know that your whole worth as a human being was all about how you look. younger me would have been envious of all she had, but the current me thought her early life was sad, and exhausting to boot.
on the other hand, i could see what other people are saying; that even though emily is aware of how incredibly problematic the industry is, she has no issue profiting from it. i can understand why people thought her hypocritical and self-absorbed. at the end of the day, she is just another privileged white cishet woman who will continue to profit from the system.
i think that, it’s also important to note that emily is human. so as humans do, she’s not going to be perfect. i think she’s also learning and unlearning all the problematic stuff as she goes. she contradicts herself. she has internalised misogyny she needs to work on. she is self-aware, but at the same time there are other issues where she severely lacks it. and you know what? i’m okay with that. i hope she continues to learn.