The Shape of You: Personal Reflections on Challenging Beauty Standards
Changing the Narrative, and Celebrating Who You Are, As You AreIn The Shape of You, Emily Steele invites readers in with her raw and intimate reflections as she navigates her complicated feelings about her own body and what it means to be beautiful.
Through personal essays, poems, quotes, and imagery, The Shape of You unravels the beauty narratives that exist among girls and women and challenges readers to rethink how they experience their own bodies and the bodies of others, too.
From childhood to adulthood, Emily boldly confronts body image, disordered eating, and the ever-evolving beauty standards women are expected to uphold. Beyond a cultural critique, The Shape of You serves as a call-to-action to girls and women everywhere to rewrite the narrative and redefine beauty, not as a mold to fit but as the unique shape of You.
The Shape of You is a collection of personal essays, poems, quotes, and imagery about body image and beauty culture. Through raw, vulnerable reflections, it challenges readers to question the societal narratives and beauty standards that exist for girls + women and rethink how we experience our own bodies and the bodies of others, too.
Beyond a cultural critique, The Shape of You serves as a call-to-action to girls and women everywhere to rewrite the narrative and redefine beauty, not as a mold to fit but as the unique shape of You.
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