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Von: 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.

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.

(P)2021 Macmillan Audio©2021 Emily Ratajkowski
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Emily has captured-with the acuity of an early Joan Didion investigating the culture of California-the complicated terrain of having a body people want to sell and having her own agenda she refuses to give up. Her prose is by turns honey smooth and vicious, uproarious and wounded. She knows the pain that lives in every woman and she isn't afraid to link arms and say she's been there, and that it hurts. 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.
These powerful essays mark a blazing, unexpected literary debut. Emily Ratajkowski interrogates beauty, sex, power, objectification, fame, and betrayal-both by self and other-with lucidity and scorched-earth honesty. I read these pages, breathless with recognition, and the thrill of reading a new voice telling it like it is.
Emily Ratajkowski's first essay collection needs to be read by everyone. She explores body politics - and the politics of her body - through a uniquely feminist lens in stories that are both page-turning and moving as hell
This irresistibly titled debut from supermodel turned writer Emily Ratajkowski fills in some of the story of just how Ratajkowski came to have one of the most famous faces in the world. But more than that, the book is invested in probing what it means to be in possession of such a face. My Body is a memoir, but it's also-like Sweetbitter or In the Land of Men-a slow, complicated indictment of a profession and the people who propel it. Ratajkowski doesn't so much direct blame at any one person or organization as paint a personal picture of what it was like for her to be young, naive, ambitious, and smart-and to feel reduced, far too often, to a collection of body parts. The book will be alluring to anyone who wants to know what it was like to dance in Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" (the cringey video that made Ratajkowski a household name) or what it was like to act alongside Ben Affleck in Gone Girl, but it will deliver a more nuanced and introspective rendering of her interior than those who come to it with those surface interests might expect.
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
Essential reading
My Body is an excellent - if we excuse the pun - body of work. Ratajkowski writes with curiosity, intellect and acute awareness... What may surprise readers is not so much the quality of the prose, which is excellent, but that it is not an easy, pop-feminism read. It's a searingly personal piece, which frequently asks more questions than it answers
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Surprinsingly relatable, taking into account that her almost superhuman beauty and popularity sets her a "few" social circles apart from the average person. She has an unapologetic raw honesty in describing her inner self that just hits home. For my personal taste, some of the stories are underdeveloped here and there and overly described in other spots but overall well written. Honeslty left me wanting more :)) I am looking forward to reading her next and seeing how she will develop as a writer.

Above expectations

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These essays on womanhood coming from someone who seemingly has it all will be relatable to so many women, regardless of their status in the society. Emily opens up about her ups and downs in life and the career as a model, but most importantly as a woman in a man’s world. Her essays made me sad and feel rage along her side, relating to how fragile we are made to feel in the world and how our bodies and our image is constantly threatened to be claimed and possessed by men around us.

Unexpectedly touching and relatable

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It was unexpectedly good, i found it hard to hold back tears at some points.

Raw and touching

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+ very open and real
+ very realistic
- too much Britney Spears (I already own her book)
- half the time I was Wanderung who S. is ans if that is her husband or what is happening...
+/- little weird to have a book full of sex and rape dedicated to your child (but a lot of people do that)
+/- the cover doesn't show the author at all, even though the title is 'my body'

important listen

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Brought me to tears a couple of times because I understood. Thank you so much for making women feel less alone with this.

Alexandra Sasha Nicole

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