Emily Ratajkowski, 30, would be ‘horrified’ if she saw another teen doing the same shoots she did early in her career as she adds she posed topless at 17
Emily Ratajkowski said she would be ‘horrified’ by another teenager doing the same photo shoots she did early in her career.
The 30-year-old model has opened up about her first topless shoot when she was just 17, and while she found it ‘validating’ at the time, she knows she would feel very different now seeing someone go through the same experience.
‘I think that I had no sense of what was happening other than that it was validating, and felt really validating for older men who ran a magazine to say, “You’re hot,”‘ she said during the Changes with Annie Macmanus podcast.
OK these days: Emily Ratajkowski said she would be ‘horrified’ by another teenager doing the same photo shoots she did early in her career. Seen this month modeling Inamorata
Some of her early work: Seen at age 17 modeling for fashion line Hot Kiss
‘It felt really good to have that. At the time, that’s all I focused on. Now looking back, I’m like, “Wow!”‘ she added.
‘I was a child, I actually can visualize that specific picture in my mind and I’m thinking about if I saw a 17 year old in that way now, I’d be horrified because I can recognize how young I was.
‘At the time, it just felt really powerful and cool. I think there were things going on under the surface of that that I didn’t even realize, was that I was learning to place a lot of value in how desirable I could be to men.’
Very young: Here she appears to have no top on as she poses at age 17
Baby face: Here she was seen as a teenager when her career was just starting out; she is only 13-years-old here
Nine years ago: The 30-year-old model has opened up about her first topless shoot when she was just 17, and while she found it ‘validating’ at the time, she knows she would feel very different now seeing someone go through the same experience
Meanwhile, Emily also talked about her experience during puberty, as she started to develop when she was young and had to deal with conflicting emotions at the same.
She added: ‘I think from, like, [age] 10 to 12, I started to feel it at school with other kids, having boobs and under arm hair – it was very scary.
‘It both felt exciting because boys paid attention to me but then also they’d make fun of me for having underarm hair.’
Early days of fame in 2012: ‘I was a child, I actually can visualize that specific picture in my mind and I’m thinking about if I saw a 17 year old in that way now, I’d be horrified because I can recognize how young I was,’ she said
Overnight stardom: Emily revealed that Robin touched her bare breasts without her consent while on the set of the now infamous 2013 Blurred Lines music video, which made her a star overnight. ‘It was a very embarrassing, humiliating moment for me’
A young model: Seen in a black bikini for one of her model fliers where she went under Emily R
Emily noted how her mother let her express herself and ‘celebrated’ her looks and the way the world saw her.
She said: ‘She really was all about letting me dress how I wanted and whatever. I think also she celebrated the way that the world perceived me as pretty and beautiful, which to me says less about her and more about how our world works.
‘Of course you’d want your daughter to be attractive because you know that they might have an easier life.’
She is promoting her book My Body which is out now.
Literary ambitions: The stunning author proudly promoted her book, My Body, wearing a demure top and red mini skirt
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