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By: 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.

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Critic Reviews

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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I’ve never heard someone so accurately voice these kinds of issues. She’s not afraid to say things that I’m sure most people would like to pretend they weren’t thinking.
I found it really intriguing and insightful. It did make me feel a bit pessimistic about the world for a few days, but I’m glad I read it.

Insightful

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Beautifully written. It was insightful and Emily is such a talented writer - nuanced descriptions creating deep empathy and compassion. Easy to follow along and yet still had depth and complexity in her writing.

Unique stories of Emily relating to her body which was relieving to hear her similar trials despite my body being different. I enjoyed hearing her reading - I could hear the depression, relate to the anxiety, hear her begrudging acceptance of things she had lived and hear the heartbreak when her voice cracked.

A heartfelt and deeply feeling memoir. Will be looking forward to reading more of Emily’s future writing.

Story to Heal the Feminine

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So beautifully written, so honest, so relatable in a way that made my heart ache.

Beautiful

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So many things in this book were so relatable, it was a very interesting listen. Well written and beautifully spoken. Thank you for sharing your experiences.

Really enjoyed listening to this book. Definitely recommend.

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I am grateful to Emily for sharing her story. Her almost dead pan honest and insightful stories of her life growing up and becoming famous and successful as a woman who is more beautiful than average. You start to understand that being beautiful is not necessarily all good all the time. She manages to give an inside view - as a child, as a young girl aspiring to achieve success and just pay the bills through to relationships and the media. And more. She is direct and succinct-self aware, acknowledging the upside and benefits she enjoyed but also revealing the exploitation and lack of compassion someone deemed to have it all experiences. Beauty comes at a cost. I enjoyed and wish I’d read this as a teenager in a way. A cautionary tale perhaps - not everything you wish for is what it seems. Some people really can’t cope with what they perceive to make someone better than them. Just because you’re rich, pretty or successful- does it make you a better person or a lesser person. For some it does.

Is being beautiful as good as you imagine

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