She’s one of the most beautiful actresses in Hollywood, but as Emily Ratajkowski reveals in an extremely personal essay, growing up, she faced body shaming long before she was in the spotlight.
In “Baby Woman,” an essay written for Lena Dunham’s Lenny newsletter, Ratajkowski opened up about how family members and school officials pressured her to cover up her changing body and suppress her sexuality.
“Growing up, my father would lovingly refer to me as a ‘baby woman,’” she writes. “And that’s what I was: a 12-year-old with D-cup breasts who still woke up in the night and asked her mom to come and sleep in her room.”
She recalls when she was 13, a close family friend came to see her perform in a play. Ratajkowski says she remembers “feeling pretty” in a red button-up ribbed top over and a mod-style zip-up miniskirt from Forever 21.
“Our family member sobbed to my mother and me at dinner after; she was worried for me, worried about the looks I got from men, because I was wearing what I was wearing,” she writes. “I needed to protect myself, she explained.”
“I struggle to find the space between as an artist, as a model, and simply as a woman — a space where I can have ownership and enjoyment of my gender,” she says. “Honouring our sexuality as women is a messy, messy business, but if we don’t try, what do we become?”
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