That, or that she offers them the fantasy of the glamorous “hot girl” life - the world travel, the famous friends, the designer clothes - while also giving them glimpses of its more sobering realities. Maybe the playful shorthand has something to do with why so many young female fans have developed parasocial relationships with her. She’s sexy, but she’s cheeky about it: “me coming out of a sad girl day to check in on the step father applications in my DMs,” she captioned one TikTok video of herself shaking her behind in the middle of the street.Īfter years of trying to explain how her last name is pronounced - the “j” is silent, so on TikTok she once posted a helpful emoji guide: 🐀 🐄 🎿 - she’s come to embrace the culture’s nickname for her: EmRata. On Instagram, where she has 29.9 million followers, she still shares provocative images of her body - adjusting a thong bikini, holding her naked breasts to show off her tan lines. Since then, she’s become one of the most sought-after supermodels in fashion, walking the runway alongside Gigi Hadid and Kendall Jenner and serving this season as the face of Versace and Tory Burch’s campaigns. That led to “High Low With EmRata,” a podcast she launched in October where she employs the same candor to interview sex workers, investigate ethical nonmonogamy and ponder the etymology of the word “toxic.”Īt this point, it’s difficult to recall that Ratajkowski first became famous 10 years ago for dancing topless around Robin Thicke in the controversial “Blurred Lines” video. In 2021, her first book, “My Body” - a collection of unexpectedly frank essays exploring beauty, feminism and power - became a New York Times bestseller. “I’m learning that outspoken women don’t often get their children.”īiting her tongue doesn’t come naturally to Ratajkowski, especially now, when she feels she’s finally finding her voice. Sly, as Ratajkowski calls him, is the reason she won’t go into detail about the “horrifying” year she’s had she doesn’t want to jeopardize gaining custody of the 2-year-old. Three years later, they welcomed a son, Sylvester. In 2018, she’d married Bear-McClard after just two weeks of dating, throwing on a jumpsuit from Zara and heading over to City Hall. Over two months of conversations, Ratajkowski dances around the edges of why her marriage collapsed. None of which offers the slightest hint that she has been living through what she describes as one of the “most traumatic experiences of entire life.” In statements obtained by Variety that were made in connection with a legal dispute, Bear-McClard was accused of sexual misconduct and grooming, some of which allegedly occurred while he was married to Ratajkowski. On March 29, sexual misconduct allegations against her estranged husband, “Uncut Gems” producer Sebastian Bear-McClard, became public. That truth, as the world is learning, is dark.
“The anxiety doesn’t hit me so much, because I’m very clear on how I see the world and what the truth is.”
“I don’t even feel my heart rate go up in the way that I used to,” she says. At age 31, the sense of calm is new to her, something that has emerged in the wake of the dissolution of her marriage and becoming a single mother. It’s like there’s an orb around her, a protective shield she has generated for self-preservation.
“She’s, like, one of the top five models.” “I didn’t know she was gonna be here,” the woman whispers to a friend. An onlooker is staring at Ratajkowski while trying to pretend she isn’t.
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