My sexiness is a curse ... no one wants to work with me, says Gone Girl star Emily
WITH starring roles in Hollywood and numerous top modelling assignments, you’d think there was little holding Emily Ratajkowski back.
But the British-born model and actress claims that nobody wants to work with her – because she’s seen as ‘too sexy’.
The 26-year-old, who starred in the 2014 film Gone Girl, said that she has faced an ‘anti-woman’ backlash because her 32C breasts are seen as too large.
She told the Australian edition of Harper’s Bazaar magazine: ‘There’s this thing that happens to me, “Oh, she’s too sexy.”
‘It’s like an anti-woman thing, that people don’t want to work with me because my boobs are too big. What’s wrong with boobs? They’re a beautiful feminine thing that needs to be celebrated. Like, who cares? They are great big, they are great small. Why should that be an issue?’
Miss Ratajkowski, who has featured in shows at London, Paris and New York’s fashion weeks, was born in London to American parents. Her mother was an English professor and her father was a painter and art teacher.
But the family moved back to the US when she was five years old, settling in California. She found fame in 2013 dancing in the video for Robin Thicke’s song Blurred Lines, which was criticised for its sexist lyrics.
Miss Ratajkowski has since appeared in several films, including alongside Ben Affleck in Gone Girl, and in swimsuit editions of Sports Illustrated magazine. In 2015 she made her debut on the catwalk, modelling for Marc Jacobs at New York Fashion Week. In the interview with Harper’s Bazaar she also praised her boyfriend musician Jeff Magid for supporting her feminist views.
She said: ‘My boyfriend is super confident and was raised by his mum, so he also genuinely loves and admires women. Not just, “Oh yeah, women are cool.” He deeply loves and respects women, so he loves what I’m all about.’
Last year, Miss Ratajkowski posed with reality TV star Kim Kardashian for a photograph in which they were both topless with a black strip across their chests. ‘However sexual our bodies may be, we need to have the freedom as women to choose when and how we express our sexuality,’ she wrote.
She has previously told Marie Claire magazine: ‘In every profile written about me, there is, “She’s so sexual and she’s such a sex symbol,” paired with, “But, wow, she knows about politics.” And that in itself is sexist.’