![]() The modeling world pushed Ratajkowski - who was shorter and bigger-busted than most high fashion models - to do catalog work, or swimsuit and lingerie shoots. “I was a child, but somehow already an expert in detecting male desire, even if I didn’t completely understand what to make of it,” she writes. ![]() She remembered the shame and confusion she felt when her older cousin came rushing back into the living room, after leaving Ratajkowski there with a male friend for a few minutes. Her beauty provoked people: At 13, she was sent home from a dance after chaperones deemed her dress “too sexy.” Another time, her dad asked her to “not dress like that, just for tonight,” when she came downstairs wearing a pink lace top and push-up bra. “He stopped dead in his tracks and his mouth fell open!”) (“I’ll never forget the look on his face as you walked past him!” Kathy would remark about random men on the street. She attracted male attention from the time she was 12, she writes. “That boy looked at you when you stood up and flipped your hair,” her mother said, driving from the audition in Los Angeles back home to San Diego. There was a young man with wild hair sitting a few feet from them.Įmily Ratajkowski’s book of essays, called “My Body,” comes out in November. Kathy, in the waiting room with her, instructed Ratajkowski to flip her hair when it was her turn to meet with the casting directors. She wore new stretchy jeans and chunky black boots. Ratajkowski went to her first audition when she was in middle school. They posted her modeling photos on Facebook. Her father, a high school art teacher, displayed her first modeling “comp” card - with her measurements and modeling images - in his classroom. They drove her to castings like most parents drove her peers to sports games. Afterward, the future mannequin burst into tears, thinking that “headshots” meant “needles in the head.”īut Ratajkowski felt that modeling would please her parents. The first time an agent approached, a preteen Ratajkowski was in the checkout line at a grocery store. Emily Ratajkowski says her mother, Kathleen, resembled Liz Taylor or Vivien Leigh as a young woman. When she was 14, the modeling world came calling. “When I was special, I felt my parents’ love for me the most.” “Beauty was a way for me to be special,” she explains. “It seemed important to them both, especially to my mother, that their daughter be perceived as beautiful.” At night, she prayed that God would make her “the most beautiful.” “I tried to gauge where my parents thought I belonged in the world of beauties,” Ratajkowski writes. Ratajkowski learned this was to be her legacy, too. Kathy, an English teacher, looked like a young Liz Taylor or Vivien Leigh, and told of “adoring boys standing on the lawn below her bedroom window in high school” and jealous harpies who tried to undermine her. Growing up an only child in San Diego, she listened to her mother’s stories about having once been a remarkable beauty herself. Emily Ratajkowski at the launch party for her nude Treats! Magazine cover in 2012, when she was 20 - before her “Blurred Lines” fame. She gave interviews defending her sexy selfies and photo shoots, saying shedding her clothes was empowering - only to realize that she didn’t really have that much power at all.įrom a very young age, Ratajkowski understood her looks made her stand out, particularly in the eyes of her parents. She reveals her family’s fixation on her looks and how adults sexualized her at a young age - a middle school teacher snapped her bra, long before Robin Thicke, 44, allegedly groped her while filming the “Blurred Lines” video when she was 21.Īfter dancing her way to fame in Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” video, she went on to become a top model, influencer and entrepreneur. 9), Ratajkowski, now 30, writes about the price of such beauty. In her forthcoming book of essays, “My Body” (out Nov. ![]() “The next day he brought his children to the hospital just to see you,” she would continue, with pride. Kendall Jenner goes braless for her revealing Met Gala afterparty lookĪs her mother, Kathy, told it, the doctor who delivered her held up the perfect infant and exclaimed, “Look at the size of her! She’s beautiful!” Spare me these sickeningly hypocritical Met Gala celebrity cockroaches Victoria’s Secret taps ex-‘Angels’ Gisele Bündchen, Adriana Lima rescue brandįake heiress Anna Delvey launching a podcast - and debuting her first single - while on house arrest
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