Emily Ratajkowski On New Book 'My Body'

This is not the first time that supermodel Emily Ratajkowski has talked openly about the difficult relationship she had and still has with her image, too often manipulated and abused (even sexually), and what it means to lose and then regain control of her own body. With her first book, My Body, out on November 9 and the recent harassment she suffered after showing herself naked on pre and postpartum social networks, she screams once again that the body is mine, opening up in a long interview with Elisa Taddeo, a journalist, and writer.

Taddeo is the author of Three Women, an incredible book on female desire, and Ratajkowski is about to come out with My Body, a long collection of writings and essays by the model on the female form. The result of their meeting? A beautiful open-hearted chat, of which we will tell you a few parts.

“I want to get to the bottom of things,” says street-style queen Ratajkowski. "It's been the blessing and curse of my life." What prompted her to start writing is always clashing with what she says is the one perspective through which things are seen: the male one. She feels anger living in a society that, while declaring itself more and more open and devoted to gender equality, nevertheless only listens to the voice of men.

That anger was already expressed in her long essay for The Cut last September and returns strongly in My Body, anger that began as fear and frustration, now transformed into strength. "I think some anger is justifiable — more than justifiable. I don't think that women should be afraid of that," Ratajkowski explains. The book is an exploration, a journey, a personal story, which becomes a biting observation of the female condition, wonderful for all women to read and use to rediscover themselves.

Ratajkowski openly explains what it means to lose control of one's image and to enter a vicious cycle from which it seems increasingly impossible to escape. She describes the difficulties she had with getting candid, but ultimately wanted to encourage other women. The horrible, chauvinist confrontation between beautiful women and hot women has always weighed on her, as she has always fallen into the latter category.

Taddeo questioned Ratajkowski on the real reason why she decided to write My Body and if she is satisfied with the final result. The answer was:

"'Why did I do this? Remind me why I wrote this and why I'm deciding to publish it?' And then when it went out into the world, it was cathartic. Because all of a sudden, it was people recognizing my reality. It's so validating. I didn't have that for a big part of my twenties, whether in these small interactions that I write about or on a global scale. To be able to say, 'This is my story,' is very healing."