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My Body
My Body: Emily Ratajkowski's deeply honest and personal exploration of what it means to be a woman today | Emily Ratajkowski
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A deeply honest investigation of what it means to be a woman and a commodity from Emily Ratajkowski, the archetypal, multi-hyphenate celebrity of our time. _______________ 'This is the book for every woman trying to place their body on the map of consumption vs control, and every woman who wants to better understand her impulses. It left me much changed' - Lena Dunham 'I read these pages, breathless with recognition, and the thrill of reading a new voice telling it like it is' - Dani Shapiro 'Emily Ratajkowski's first essay collection needs to be read by everyone [...] both page-turning and moving as hell' - Amy Schumer 'A slow, complicated indictment of a profession and the people who propel it [...] it will deliver a more nuanced and introspective rendering of her interior than those who come to it with those surface interests might expect' - Vogue 'Ratajkowski brings nuanced insight to questions about empowerment versus commodification of women's bodies and sexuality. Blending cultural criticism and personal stories, My Body is smart and powerful' - Time Magazine 'Raw, nuanced and beautifully written. A moving and enlightening experience to join a woman openly exploring such deep parts of her physical self via the written word. A truly impressive debut' - Emma Gannon _______________ Emily Ratajkowski is an acclaimed model and actress, an engaged political progressive, a formidable entrepreneur, a global social media phenomenon, and now, a writer. Rocketing to world fame at age twenty-one, Ratajkowski sparked both praise and furor with the provocative display of her body as an unapologetic statement of feminist empowerment. The subsequent evolution in her thinking about our culture's commodification of women is the subject of this book. My Body is a profoundly personal exploration of feminism, sexuality, and power, of men's treatment of women and women's rationalizations for accepting that treatment. These essays chronicle moments from Ratajkowski's life while investigating the culture's fetishization of girls and female beauty, its obsession with and contempt for women's sexuality, the perverse dynamics of the fashion and film industries, and the grey area between consent and abuse. Nuanced, unflinching, and incisive, My Body marks the debut of a fierce writer brimming with courage and intelligence.
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Andrea313
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I love having a rare day all for myself- a bookstore visit and rose hot cocoa afterward at my favorite cafe. #CurrentlyReading

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Amandakay
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Emily Ratajkowski is an acclaimed model and actress, an engaged political progressive, a formidable entrepreneur, a global social media phenomenon, and now, a writer. Rocketing to world fame at age twenty-one, Ratajkowski sparked both praise and furor with the provocative display of her body as an unapologetic statement of feminist empowerment.

+always love reading about confident and empowered women

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mcctrish
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An impulse audio pick ❤️ What a PERFECT follow up to Love, Pamela ( ER even references what PA went through in this) This is a great book & a terrific audio! A woman‘s body is her business! You don‘t get to shame it, sell it, touch it without her permission! I am SO MAD & sad about so much of what ER was subjected to I hope the world is getting better for us (grrrrls especially) but I might be hanging onto that hope with fingernails

ChaoticMissAdventures I listened to this right before this seasons Next In Fashion and it had me looking at the models completely differently - or even for the first time beyond their walk on the runway. So embarrassing to realize we were never given the names of the models and I never noticed until after reading this. 10mo
mcctrish @ChaoticMissAdventures it really has me thinking differently about a lot of things 10mo
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#IDAHOBIT2023 all bodies matter 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

AmyG 🙌🏻🌈🏳️‍🌈 10mo
LeahBergen Cute top! 10mo
mcctrish @LeahBergen thank you ☺️ money well spent on this beauty 10mo
HeatherBookNerd Where did you get that shirt? Love it! 10mo
Tamra Adorable! Looks great! 10mo
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ChaoticMissAdventures
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This is an interesting read, I didn't know who she was until I heard about this book. She is a solid writer, I find her story a bit sad, somehow I am reading a lot of books lately about subtly cruel mothers. Who pass their own obsession with perfect looks and bodies to their daughters & the daughters writing about it as if it was normal.
I appreciate the way she writes about how her career has caused her to view her body outside of herself

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anushareflects
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A debut collection of essays by the famous model Emily Ratajkowski. The work explores varied facets of her relationship with her body, with the modelling and Hollywood industries, with powerful men. She is frank and vulnerable, and it makes for a good read about the commodification of the female body in the industry and coming from one of the foremost models in the world, why she offers no apologies for her choices.

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RebL
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Ambivalence. How we love/hate our bodies! How we are empowered/dispowered while using our sexuality! How we lift all choices for women & judge women‘s choices! I don‘t even know how I feel about this book, but I read it fast on a slow train. Also, the modeling industry is still full of d*cks.
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Gifted by a friend.

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Thanks for the tag @MoonWitch94 I love this idea of a soothing picture! ❤️ I could not pick one picture so - I have this quote in my office, the poster in my bedroom, I am always soothed walking in a forest along a creek, and my cat Obi cracks me up all the time! #thoughtfulthursday

I would love to see a picture that soothes YOU!!! Please consider joining in and posting one! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

TheAromaofBooks That is an AMAZING cat picture! 😂 2y
mabell Both peaceful and hilarious 😄 2y
AmyG Your cat! 🤣 2y
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Emily Ratajkowski‘s intimate essays ask perceptive questions about beauty, sexuality, and power. I think most women would recognize parts of themselves in her words and experiences. Her writing is thoughtful and personal; I would love to read more from her. 🎧

Jas16 I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this one. 2y
ICantImReading @Jas16 me too! I also hadn‘t really known anything about her before I read it 2y
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"Beauty was a way for me to be special, when I was special, I felt my parents love the most."
An incredibly candid account of objectification and power. Her compelling prose surprised me and made for a quick thoughtful read. Unfortunately theres quite a bit of hate for this book much like Ratajkowski herself. But before you judge her based on her Instagram or the Blurred Lines music video try reading her words and decide from there. #bookreview

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I went into this audiobook with no real expectations. I knew next to nothing about the author but had read a couple of good reviews. I ended up surprised by how compelling it was to listen to Ratajkowski talk about her body and being beautiful and the ways she has become a commodity. There are many contradictions but that made it seem more real to me as if she is still reconciling her feelings.

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Chelsea.Poole
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Listened to the audiobook performed by the author. Ratajkowski is a gorgeous woman whose life has been shaped because of the way she looks in both good and bad ways. She writes about the conundrum to be in the position she is in (famous, influencer, financially benefiting) while being beholden to the male gaze. Emily wants her own sense of agency and control but shares so many examples of how her own body is used by others in truly atrocious ways.

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mklong
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Emily Ratajkowski is giving us normal folk a glimpse of how it feels to be physically beautiful and to capitalize on it. She is calling out, and yet, profiting from, an unhealthy system, and that is what is so compelling here. Plenty of people like me have told her how she SHOULD feel and these essays are her way of telling us how she DOES feel. Agree or disagree, she is brave for the telling.

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must read

Diannajc11 Feminist cat 2y
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Well-written and thought provoking essays about women and their bodies - how they use them, the miracles they are, and how they are perceived by men.

I didn't know much at all about the author and found myself doing lots of Googling and slowly becoming a fan.

Her essay about Britney was eye-opening and sad.

I always liked the song Blurred Lines, but can't help but hear it differently now.

This was my birthday #botm add-on.

Glad I read it!

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TW: rape, sexual assault.
This book was so unexpected and so interesting to read. I struggled to read the second chapter because of the depictions of assault but I couldn't stop reading all the other chapters.
Ratajkowski gives us an insight into the life of a famous model. She carefully discusses her complicated relationship with fame and her body that made her famous. It was refreshing to read her take on the misogynistic industry she works in.

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A lot of the insights Emily makes in this reflective essay collection about her body were universal despite, as a model, her body being her main source of income. That said, even though I finished yesterday, I had to dig deep in my memory to think of the exact points she made. I enjoyed it while reading, but nothing memorable. Low pick. #botm

📸 the author‘s Instagram

Cinfhen #pass / as always fabulous review 2y
Megabooks @Cinfhen yeah, I wouldn‘t go out of my way find this. Thanks!! 2y
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Some things are hard to fact check. This is not one of them. 😑

DGRachel Oh…oh, no. 😕 2y
wanderinglynn Wow, that‘s a terrible error. 2y
Centique Youch 😬 2y
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Jee_HookedOnBookz Omg how can they let this happen! You‘re really good at fact-checking! 2y
Librarybelle Yikes! 2y
rjsthumbelina Wow. Incidentally, the beginning of the fall of the Berlin Wall DID happen 5 days before I was born 2y
Bookzombie That‘s such a big mistake. It‘s so easy to verify. 🤦🏼‍♀️ 2y
Cinfhen Ugh, that‘s pretty unforgivable 😬because then you start to question what else is misrepresented?? 2y
Cathythoughts Not good !!! 🤷🏼‍♀️ 2y
Chrissyreadit That‘s disappointing. 2y
allureofbeauty Wooooowwwww oof 2y
Megabooks @DGRachel @wanderinglynn @Centique @Jee_HookedOnBookz @Librarybelle @rjsthumbelina @Bookzombie @Cinfhen @Cathythoughts @Chrissyreadit @allureofbeauty even if I could forgive the author the mistake due to her age (but I can‘t), where was her copy editor?? Like I said, not hard to look up. Just really disappointing. Cindy, it does make me wonder about her a bit. I‘m still thinking about how I feel about her insights. 🤔 2y
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Enjoying this #botm choice more than I expected!

Hooked_on_books I liked this much better than I thought I would, too. It‘s a solid book with good insights (though I continue to have mixed feelings about the author). 2y
Cinfhen I wasn‘t drawn to this book but maybe I‘ll reconsider 2y
Megabooks @Hooked_on_books totally agree. 2y
Megabooks @Cinfhen I‘ll tag you in my review of course! 👍🏻 2y
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I had no interest in this book, but then heard Emily on a podcast and was curious. She is thoughtful in her examination of the co-opting of women‘s bodies, especially her own, to be used by and for men. She acknowledges her changing understanding of this since she started modeling. I‘m glad to see someone known for their body providing this kind of commentary. I think this will be especially good for young women to read.

marleed Great review! 2y
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