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I flewww through these essays. She really is a shrewd writer and thinker. Maybe from another person parts of this book could have seemed navel-gazing but for someone whose navel is gazed at by millions it feels fair and very interesting to spend so many pages reflecting on appearance-related issues. And honestly I appreciate that she can write about complicated feelings and insecurities without pretending that she doesn’t look the way she does (or pretending she doesn’t see what everyone else sees). She knows she’s stunning AND she likes it AND she uses it AND she feels weird about it sometimes and wonders what it means to use it. And sometimes she wants to be looked at and sometimes she wants to be invisible like we all do.

We also have the EXACT SAME recurring dreams which was kind of freaky and validating (?) to read. I will definitely read her future books. I hope she writes another book on bodies and beauty in 20-30 years. I’ll be so curious to hear her reflections on later stages of womanhood, partly so she can help illuminate what I might also be thinking.

(I won a galley in a goodreads giveaway which is why this is longer than a sentence. My first win!)