My Body Hardcover – November 9, 2021

I must say this book is one of the best I’ve ever read, I finished it in 2 days. I really resonated with her words, I felt seen. The author is a beautiful & stellar woman, inside & out; this book proves as such. 5 stars & round of applause! I hope to see more work from her & her team.

I wanted to start reading more memoirs, so I began by picking up a copy of Emily Ratajkowski’s debut. I had always been fascinated by her life & career trajectory & was interested to learn more through her own words. Ratajkowski’s novel is honest, unflinching, emotional, & memorable. I never felt like her writing was contrived or overly stylized. It felt like a friend reciting their life story to you. I found myself unable to put it down. I hope she continues to write more in the future & pursues more memoir work, because it definitely seems to be a great skill of hers. I’d highly recommend this book for those who’d like to start getting more into memoirs & who want to begin with a shorter read. Overall, this is a very well-written & entertaining look into an even more interesting life. Job well done, Ms. Ratajkowski!

I only learned of this author a few months ago. I am from the generation of Kate Moss and super thin models being the unattainable norm for beauty. The author is much younger than myself and my generation but it seems that some things never change. She discusses the complexities of womanhood and all things related to our bodies, bodies image, ideal beauty standards and how men play so heavily into all of that. Overall, the author doesn't say this but if I read between the lines well enough, she is pretty angry that basically the same old beauty norms still apply today for women. Little, if any, change towards equality has been established. She is angry that the skinnier she is, the higher her pay check. Her being nude in a video propelled her to the top over night, not having clothes on or being a great model. All of these things seems to make her angry or at least annoyed. She is so relatable on so many levels even though she is hailed as the body of this generation and as an international beauty. All of the complexities of what her parents and society told her about beauty and sexuality are relatable to any woman of any age. In some ways this book heals my soul as a woman who has experienced so many of the same messages she has been told. Yet she is famous, beauty and hailed as the body of this generation and she feels the way I have felt many times in life. But in another way, the book makes me angry as a woman. It just highlights what is still wrong in the world and men and society norms. Even with every millienal out there on the street fighting for women's empowerment; yet. it seems that no matter what, women will never be completely free of the issues around our bodies, beauty and sexuality. Great book!

As a guy who’s never read a book of this kind, and who honestly didn’t know much about her prior to reading her snippet in NY mag, I found the book to be very sharp, vulnerable, and honest. It reads like a conversation that you’re having with a cool friend of yours. It’s unpretentious and highly relatable, yet very enlightening. She is a natural writer, and the atmospheres that she creates are palpable, and although we’re worlds apart as people, it’s not hard to see yourself in her shoes. You watch her make her mistakes, each time feeling empowered in the moment, only later realizing how she’s actually being used as an object for someone else’s sexual desire, and struggle along the way to discover what actual power or control she has in the system. By the time the book culminates imo in “men like you” watching her release her anger at all of these situations is almost cathartic, albeit uncomfortable for her. Even though in her dreams she has no punch, in real life she really connects. In the end you feel her coming into her body again and feeling the love around her and the power that comes with trusting and listening to her body and letting go and you begin to feel happy for her, as if she’s gotten one step closer to true empowerment, the cultivating of her own inner peace.

Yes, she can write. I think, however, it's quit apparent that for most of her life she had no idea where her boundaries were and I rather doubt that it was possible for anyone else to know. Early on she understood that her was body was power and currency of a certain kind. What she does not appear to have come to until quite late is what that power was, the circumscriptions on it and just what she was willing to sell and what the terms would be. Consider that she's OK with some theft (squatting in houses) but not OK with shoplifting. She's OK with selling her image but displeased with some of the terms. She dissociates to get through her experiences but CHOOSES those experiences again and again and again. She is pleased with the reaction that she uses her appearance to get but displeased that she is judged only on her appearance. I'm not sure that even now there is any coherent Emily - I would hope at some point she sets her own boundaries and makes her own choices in a way that feels like one person.

I really liked this book. Not very profound but a good easy read. A great vacation read.

As a teen I did really love this book and it was the first memoir i’ve ever read. I’ve either seen people who love or hate it on social media and I honestly think it depends on their experiences and if you can resonate with her or understand how someone can be contradictory in their ways. It really opens your eyes to the views of models who people may find as shallow and against beauty standards but it opens you up to her experiences and how she viewed a lot of what has happened to her in the modeling industry and her opinions on it.

I love girly sexy empowerment books & this wrapped up how it is to be a women down to the nitty gritty terrains of femininity. It kept me flipping the pages, really enjoyed the flow & inviting writing. Engaging essays & I loved the refreshing feeling of reading a new story after the last.