My Body

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 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.

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!

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.

I'd vaguely heard of her a couple years ago, but had no clue who she was until this book came out. And she's a good writer. If one views this as essays about a young woman trying to figure life and feminism out, it will work better for the reader. She is young, she is contradictory, but she knows it. Even were she not a model, I feel like she delves into the complications of being hot, hounded by men for that hotness, and trying to maneuver her way around those things. I appreciate that she's vulnerable and honest about her need for male validation, even as she realizes that's a monumentally bad idea. I get some people hated this. That's completely valid. But I couldn't be more than frustrated by her, in the same way there are women I love who are treated similarly by men and crave their validation. Yes, she's a hot girl; but why does the world feel like it has a right to a woman's body, no matter who she is, how she looks, or what she shows to the public? This is just her story, her experience with that, even if it's a narrow one. Basically a woman can't win. Really, I just wanted to scold her and then give her a big hug.

Emily wrote an amazing book! From writing about extraordinary things like her modeling career to writing about the daily struggles of being a woman in a patriarchal society. Everyone can find something to relate to in this book. So beautifully written and so easy to read! I looked forward to coming home and reading this book every single day!

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!

I have never read anything like this before, it’s really nice to see a woman’s perception about a man dominated word from someone who has experienced it, so so closely

This book really makes you think and question about the image men have about women in the work environment and society

Super awesome to have her perspective on her path. I had the impression to know her so much because of Robin’s Blurred Line video and all the stuff she post on IG. Have to admit that reading her tweets about politics and all, I was skeptic about her.Not anymore!Love that book. Awesome work. Start strong and the second to last chapter is a spectacular finish for the book.Recommend.

Mega Buch!Ich war sehr überrascht, dass es so gut ist.

too much emotions I felt like crying