Emily Ratajkowski has revealed a male casting agent made a vile comment about her modelling photos when she was still in secondary school.
Emily, who is 30, wrote: “Now this’s the look…” This is how we know this girl gets f****d,’ while browsing her portfolio.
Emily started working at the age of 12 and also wrote that she was called ‘too sexy’ as a 13-year-old. She said: “I was just a child… However, Emily started her career at the age of 12 and wrote: “I was a child. I knew that men wanted me. But somehow I had mastered the art of detecting it.
Emily claimed she was tired of being objectified by men in fashion after 17 years.
Fed up: Emily Ratajkowski has revealed in her new book My Body that she’s ‘tired’ of being a sex symbol after 17 years of objectification by male colleagues in the fashion industry
Emily outlined in her collection of feminist essays how her parents “focused” on Emily’s appearance and sought to make a profit.
In describing her childhood, she wrote: “I never prayed much…But as a young woman I did pray for beauty.” I was special because beauty was something that brought me joy.
‘When I was special I felt my parents’ love for me the greatest. Their daughter should be viewed as beautiful, and this was especially important for my mother.
Emily shared a story about a 13-year-old incident in which she was sent home for dressing too sexy at school. This angered her mother.
The model was told by a casting agent when she was 13: ‘Now this is the look…This is how we know this girl gets f****d,’ while he was browsing her portfolio’ (pictured aged 13)
Emily recalled how she had cried while her mother told her: ‘“Those people can go f*** themselves, you don’t have anything to be ashamed of.”’
Her career was described by her: “I created a platform sharing photos of me and my body online. But in other, less overt ways, I’ve felt objectified and limited by my position in the world as a so-called sex symbol.’
In middle school, an agent approached the girl about modeling.
Her modeling career was a proud moment for her family. She had her dad hang one of his marketing materials, which included her measurements and photo.
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It seems that around that time, a lot of adults were taking note of her looks — and she says a middle-school teacher even snapped her bra on one occasion.
Emily could have lost some attention if Emily’s mother had not pointed this out. When she was first auditioned for modeling, her mother pointed out to her that a young male had been looking at her.
Coming soon: In her forthcoming book My Body (out November), she opens up about some of her personal experiences
Emily said that “That boy glanced at you when your hair was flipped.” “He was watching your every move.
It comes after Emily claimed last month that Robin Thicke groped her on the set of his music video Blurred Lines, which shot her to stardom overnight with 721 million views on YouTube.
She wrote in her book: ‘Suddenly, out of nowhere, I felt the coolness and foreignness of a stranger’s hands cupping my bare breasts from behind,
I instinctively moved back, staring at Robin Thicke. His eyes were covered by his sunglasses, he smiled and fell backwards.
‘I didn’t have any real power as the naked girl dancing around in his music video. I was just an hired mannequin.
She told the Millennial Love podcast of the incident: ‘I think that if I had actually flipped out on set and like, I’m done shooting, or whatever, called my agent, I was really an insignificant, unknown model at that point.
“I can’t imagine what would’ve happened without the fact that I wouldn’t have had the career that I did. That’s a brutal reality. It’s true.
Emily spoke out about the incident in the podcast.
“I feel like a certain part of me (which I did not even try to write) also felt like “well, that happened. He was that guy.” On set, he was extremely drunk.
She added: “And that is why I point it out about me, and not him. I felt like that was very embarrassing for myself, which I write about because then it was so obvious that I was sort of a hired model whose bodies were being used, really as these men wanted it to be.
“I felt a strange feeling every time people talked to me about Robin Thicke’s video. I realized it was because I had never experienced this before and only five years later did I finally accept it.
‘Those people can go f*** themselves’: Emily also told of an incident where she was sent home from a school dance aged-13 for being dressed ‘too sexy’ – much to the anger of her mother
She laughed and said, “There is a part in me that doesn’t like being the kind of person you are.”
It’s not correct, I don’t believe it’s true but it’s my feeling. This means that you don’t want to become a victim.
It made me feel weak. I didn’t think about it saying about him.
Emily has also revealed in her book the terrifying moment when a sixteen-year-old boy at school “forced” himself on Emily, which occurred when Emily was 16.
She questioned: ‘Why did my 15-year-old self not scream at the top of my lungs? What was the point of me moaning and whistling softly? I was taught not to shout by anyone. I was a horrible person.
‘Suddenly, out of nowhere, I felt the coolness and foreignness of a stranger’s hands cupping my bare breasts’ It comes after Emily claimed last month that Robin Thicke groped her on the set of his music video Blurred Lines (pictured in the video in 2013)
Admitting she is deeply insecure about her looks and seeks validation online, the model added: ‘I post pictures which I think are a testament of my beauty. Then, I obsessively review the comments to make sure the Internet is on board.
Emily responded also to critics that she is anti-feminist, claiming she made her money through her figure.
She hit back: ‘To me, girls sexualising themselves wasn’t the issue as feminists and anti-feminists would have you believe…
“But, shaming them was. Then why were we asked to change? It was to cover up, apologize for our bodies. It was getting tiring to apologize for how I had presented myself.
Why were we asked to make adjustments?’: Her book My Body contains these comments.