My Body: Emily Ratajkowski's deeply honest and personal exploration of what it means to be a woman today - THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Em vez de aprender a confiar nos meus instintos e me valorizar, absorvi a ideia de que tudo que importava em mim era o tamanho do meu corpo.

wonder why we need new mothers to look like we did before we had babies. Why we push ourselves to “get our bodies back.” My body will never go back to what it was; it’s made a person, traveled to another dimension, and given birth to another world. The journey has left more than a few marks. I want to embrace that.

Believing in the inherent value of your body—and yourself—is a tricky act in modern America, where we are expected to work a paid job in order to “earn a living.”

Quanto mais independentes sob o aspecto financeiro, quanto mais controle tivermos dos acontecimentos, quanto mais instruídas e autônomas do ponto de vista sexual nós mulheres nos tornarmos no mundo, tanto mais esgotadas, sem controle, tolas e sexualmente inseguras querem que nos sintamos em nosso corpo.