A review by fizapk
My Body by Emily Ratajkowski

4.0

A necessary, broad look at how the ownership of "image" and commodified beauty impacts the models, but Ratjkowski fails to fully bring the point home. Often, she sets up a slam dunk point about commodification through a (usually boring) story, but then fails to score the point. Maybe scoring the point would mean truly owning up to harms of the industry and reflecting on her role in representation and how it harms young women too. Her stories on exploitation and assault and important and harrowing. She is smart, writing with an acute understanding of her position as a privileged person in media -exposing our own prejudices about confident women. Yet, when she complains about the rapid spread of her images and then goes back to another shoot the next day, she misses another shot at the point! Should this story not be a call for better modeling contracts and rights for so-called Muses as a whole?

As it circles the drain without ever calling for any change, I must evoke an old adage: I think you guys might be thinking about yourselves too much.