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

perspective on women’s struggles with food and the quest for thinness. I became angry at the societal messages that aggressively promoted a single standard of beauty—a standard that had caused me to spend most of my life seeing ugliness in myself and believing my body wasn’t good enough the way it was.

If she is taught to hate her own body, how can she love her mother’s body that has the same configuration as hers?5—her grandmother’s body, the bodies of her daughters as well? How can she love the bodies of other women (and men) close to her who have inherited the body shapes and configurations of their ancestors? To attack a woman thusly destroys

what messages have you inherited about your body and how it should look and act?