My Body

Tear on the cover.

I really enjoyed reading this book.

If you capitalise on it, as Emily does throughout her teens/20s, you will be rewarded greatly, both financially and with an ego-boosting sense of desirability courtesy of the male gaze (and equally despised by women steeped in internalised misogyny). Once you have reached an age where you have enough sense to confront your exploitation at the hands of men and the trauma accrued as a result of this, you are typically no longer ‘desirable’ (read youthful) and have lost your platform as w@nk material and can easily be labelled ‘bitter’ ‘washed up’ and ‘past it’. How do we break this cycle as women?I’m really intrigued to know what happened in the aftermath of this book wherein it has been revealed that Emily’s ex husband is a predator of young teen women, the type of guy who so traumatised and scarred her, and who she so believed she had escaped at this point in her life :(Ultimately, I feel that this book documents an illusion/subterfuge that most of us as women will come to question as our looks fade and we are no longer meal of the day (although Emily has possibly suffered from this in the extreme being that she is extraordinarily, rather than everyday beautiful): was I ever really as powerful as I thought I was or was I simply playing willingly into the hands of men using my sexuality and experiencing a fleeting sense of power which was never really authentic?

Must read book. A deep insight look about feminism and the ghosts behind being a famous woman. I completely loved it!

Livre acheté pour le Noël de ma nièce. Reçu rapidement, bien emballé et pas abîmé. Satisfait de mon achat.

It was interesting to get a glimpse behind the curtain of such an A-list celeb, and to know that your struggles/pain as a woman are generally felt by every female on earth is validating, even someone as seemingly perfect as EmRata.I did find some of it a little self indulgent, at times it felt like the author thought she was the only person in the world that thought and read so deeply into her feelings, and occasionally I felt a little bit of a god complex peeked through? The China-town baths scene was particularly “look I’m just like you - promise” - but as Emily would be keen to point out, that could be a reflection of my own insecurities.At the end of the day, we’re all going through it, and sometimes you don’t care to hear it from someone who you would kill for a day-in-the-life-of, and then hear this kind of “I know I’m seen as perfect but I struggle too?” narrative that I can tell she tried hard to avoid.Emily is a good writer and I enjoyed her stories from childhood, and her mother seems like a very interesting character (I’d be interested in a book by her for sure). I found the candid self-questioning appealing and she showed self awareness that I think some people lack. Overall a fine read for a little holiday pool reading, but not ground breaking. I do wonder if she would have had the same response had she not been the Emily Ratajkowski? I guess we’ll never know and I’m certain, given her acute self-awareness, that’s something she’s thought about too.

This book gives an insight into Emily’s world and the real her behind the photo shoots, reminding society she is not just a picture. Her body has a mind and a voice. It’s a really good book, that has you questioning your own perception of models and the automatic judgement of ‘beautiful’ women having it easier.This book makes you reflect on the world and society we are in. Also the me too movement and how it challenged how society continued to allow women to be second to men and allows men to define our bodies and our relationship with ourselves. How men in power have treated women, in this book how the modelling industry works against women. It gives you an insight into the emotional and physical impact this has had on Emily.Emily’s reflection on times in her life and how she felt then and how she feels now looking back is insightful. It sounds so familiar, often friends and I have spoken of times when younger and wish we had known to stand up for ourselves more. How at times we thought we were being strong, without seeing or just ignoring our vulnerability. That as girls we were conditioned to be silent and experience sexual harassment, as if it’s an acceptable cost and condition of being a girl and then women.Finishing this book I reflected on my view of Emily and then her lived experience of not owning her images and her body and how photographers and others have used and profited of those images that she cannot take back. It made me think of Taylor Swift and her fight for her music. It makes you question what more can be done so others do not have to go through this. More change is needed in so many industries to bring back rights to the owner of their work, if it’s their bodies or music. More women in these industries supporting and safeguarding each other. More men being accountable for their actions and having more consequences. Emily should have a say over what happens and how it’s sold. This book is Emily taking back her narrative on those images.I have recommended this book to friends, as well worth a read