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booking_along 's review for:
My Body
by Emily Ratajkowski
challenging
dark
inspiring
sad
medium-paced
i post instagram photos that i think of as testaments to my beauty and then obsessively check the likes to see if the internet agrees. I collect this data more than i want to admit, trying to measure my allure as objectively and brutally as possible. I want to calculate my beauty to protect myself, to understand exactly how much power and loveability i have.
i don’t know the author of this book or what she done, but i am always interested in hearing a person in the public view and their own stories which most of the time is very different from anything that can be found publixally about them anyways.
so i enjoy reading autobiographies of people i don’t know anything or very little about.
this book was something.
it definitely showed the horrors and traumas especially women in their way to become or being famous seems to sadly have to go through.
i liked how honest this author is about herself, how she views herself and how she is seen. How people often she her not as a person but very much as a body, uncaring about her in any other way.
i also liked how she pointed out that while in many cases women that are famous are the face of something but in most cases the actual power of what they are doing and how they are doing it is actually in the hands of -most of the time- older more powerful men.
it reads like a very honest reflection of her story and how she experienced her life so far.
for me personally it jumped a bit to often back and forth between different times and moments to work perfectly, personal preference.
i definitely think it’s worth a read for anyone interested.