Emily RatajkowskiThe 30-year-old has admitted to ‘exploiting herself’ and ‘using her body’ – in a sensational new interview – just a day after she slammed the industry and revealed that she had to part ways. was paid $25,000 to take super bowl With disgraced Malaysian financier Lo Taek Zho aka Zho Lo.
The New York-based actress and model confessed to ‘capitalizing on her sexuality’ when she was younger in an attempt to regain control during an interview with CBS Mornings on Monday – recalling that she had ‘captured her self-abuse’ As seen in ’empowerment’, a scene that has changed as she grew up.
‘[In] In my early 20s, I really thought about putting myself in and working the system and said, “Well, I know I need to be a model and use my body for fame and success.” What can I get?” And, I even called it empowerment,’ she explained.
Emily Ratajkowski, 30, admits to ‘exploiting herself’ and ‘using her body’ to find ‘fame and success’ in an explosive new interview with CBS
His admission came just a day after the industry was reprimanded for paying him to attend events with men.
She revealed that she was given $25,000 to participate in the Super Bowl with Malaysian financier Lo Taek Zho aka Zho Lo (right).
The American actress and model says she ‘took advantage of her sexuality’ when she was young trying to gain ‘some kind of control’
Emily starred in Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” music video in 2013 — when she was 22 — and it quickly skyrocketed her career. In the clip, she and two other female models appeared completely topless as they danced with Robin. She later claimed that the singer groped her animals on the sets.
“I was in the Blurred Lines video — that was my big breakthrough moment — and I told all that felt like an empowering experience,” she said.
‘But, as I got older, I realized it was a bit more complicated and felt a responsibility to tell that to young girls.
‘I would be wrong to say that it is just your sexuality and your right to capitalize on your beauty as a woman.’
The mother-in-law of one further said, ‘I am not interested in canceling anyone. For me it was telling the truth of the whole reality of that experience. Because all I said for so long was, “It was so funny,” which, by the way, was also.’
Emily explained that she liked to ‘use her sexuality’ and ‘take advantage of her image’ because she felt it gave her ‘some sort of control’. But now she feels she really had no power until she wrote her book, My Body—which is due out Tuesday, November 9.
‘I don’t think exploiting myself is progress, I think it has given me some kind of control. It’s only through writing this book and telling this story and even creating, creating something, that I feel empowered. It feels like real power,’ she said.
while talking to Sunday Times Magazine A day earlier, Emily confessed that she had previously accepted thousands of dollars in exchange for attending events with different men – although she is now blasting the practice as ‘manipulation’.
Emily starred in Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” music video in 2013. In the scene, she appeared completely topless. She later claimed that the singer groped her animals on the sets.
Emily said that although it made her feel ’empowered’ at the time, she now realizes that ‘exploiting herself’ did not give her any real power
Mom said the first time she experienced real empowerment was when she wrote her book, My Body — which is due out Tuesday, November 9.
Now, when asked how she can say these things publicly but also admit to participating in them, Emily explained, ‘I think it’s really important – politicians are a perfect example of that. They are – they are criticizing the system and they are still working. Within it, because you want to change it.
‘As someone you can google and look at my Instagram and see all this glamorous and success, fame… it’s really important to give people the full story.’
“Writing this book and telling this story and even creating something, creating something – that feels like real power,” she said
She continued, ‘I don’t blame young girls and I never shame them for how they dress or how they try to make the system work or try to be.
‘That being said, I don’t want [them] Thinking it would be a beautiful path with flowers… it’s more complicated than that. There are many ways you can get hurt. Especially if you are naive.
‘I was defiant. I really wanted to believe that I was an example of an empowered woman. That if it was feminism that you could use your body to find fame and success, and in some ways that’s totally true. In other ways I didn’t feel empowered because it’s much more complicated than that.
‘It’s a cultural shift. Obviously there are ways we can protect models but it’s a really complicated industry because it’s just about using women’s bodies to sell products,’ she said.
‘So ultimately there’s always going to be a level of objectivity. I think though, respecting these young women, giving them as much control as they can, is huge.
‘In general, and how we treat young girls and how we teach them – in all kinds of subtle ways – that they’re bound to be really sweet, never let them need them and don’t care about their own Protect.’
The brunette beauty – who welcomed her first son, Sylvester Apollo Bier with her husband, Sebastian Beyer-McClard, back in March – said she wants to make sure that when the now-8-month-old is older, she Knows about ‘how he can hurt women in certain situations.’
‘I think women and men can benefit from understanding these power dynamics. The ways in which men sometimes feel intimidated, understanding that they have something to prove, are some things that are even harder for men,’ she said.
‘Toxic masculinity is bad for everyone. I want to take that pressure off him and also tell him how he can hurt women in certain situations.
Emily said that ‘there’s always going to be a level of objectification’ since ‘it’s a really complicated industry’, but hopes young models may be more ‘protected’ in the future
The Runway star wants to make sure that when her now-eight-month-old son, Sylvester Apollo Bear (pictured) grows up, he’s aware of how he can ‘hurt women in certain situations’
In her new book, Emily also claims that the photographer Jonathan Ladder He sexually assaulted her in 2011. And while chatting with The Sunday Times, she explained why she decided to open up about the incident as well as what happened on the set of Blurred Lines.
She admitted, ‘These were experiences I didn’t want to see because they took me out of control of my life and I was afraid to admit it.
‘I didn’t sit down to write a list of traumatic events in my life. Absolutely. But there were experiences that got me around a lot of embarrassment and it is the recognition that comes with people reading this and with recognizing your experience as real and existing.’
The Runway star also revealed how her ex-boyfriend Owen ‘forced’ her when she was too drunk to refuse at the age of 15. He was reportedly 16 years old at the time.
Emily told the magazine, ‘The naming of what happened to Owen was particularly didactic.
‘That was non-consensual sex. I was very young. I haven’t even had sex before. For many young women I know, their first initial sexual experience bordered on non-consensual.’
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