![]() ![]() With the support of her parents-whom Ratajkowski lightly condemns as overenthusiastic about the prospect of having a professionally stunning daughter-she signed with a modelling agent as a teen-ager. Ratajkowski’s mother was particularly fixated on her beauty, observing with glee the way men reacted to her daughter when she was as young as twelve. Ratajkowski grew up in Southern California, a child of the nineties and early two-thousands who, like most of her peers, eagerly lapped up the images of complicated pop stars like Britney Spears. Beauty is not an antidote to emotional anguish or self-doubt, but, instead, a breeding ground for more insecurity: “I so desperately craved men’s validation that I accepted it even when it came wrapped in disrespect,” she writes. If there is a thesis statement to be drawn from Ratajkowski’s somewhat muddled, overly lyrical début, it’s that physical beauty-in particular, a near-perfect, if outdated, sort of beauty-is a heavy cross to bear. In her new essay collection, aptly titled “ My Body” after her foremost preoccupation, Ratajkowski attempts to reckon with how her appearance has shaped her personal relationships, her career, and her psyche. Lauded for her beauty since she was a young girl, and made world-famous by her topless appearance in a music video, in 2013, Ratajkowski has spent decades receiving the world’s lecherous gaze, metabolizing it, inviting it, rejecting it, capitalizing on it, and agonizing over it. assumed by the mass media, and often by magazine readers and movie watchers as well, to be eternal, transcendent.”) This is the position from which Emily Ratajkowski, the model and entrepreneur, writes. Even in the era of supposed body positivity and self-acceptance, the amount of resources devoted per woman to grooming, primping, nipping, and tucking toward some aspirational physical ideal is extraordinary, and yet so easily shrugged off as part of everyday life.īut what about the rare women who are those physical ideals, the women born with the supernatural beauty to which others aspire? (These are the women whom Naomi Wolf crudely described, in “ The Beauty Myth,” as “gaunt, yet full-breasted Caucasian, not often found in nature. The undue burden placed on women to maintain their appearance-and to be constantly appraised on the basis of physical attractiveness, both covertly and overtly-is one such injustice. “I cook a lot, so that really helps,” she told Elle.Some injustices are so self-evident and quotidian that they lose their capacity to enrage. Dinner is usually something she whips up at home. For lunch, she’ll probably reach for lean meat and greens, according to Harper’s Bazaar. Her day usually starts off with coffee, along with granola, yogurt, or toast, per Vogue. On the nutrition front, Emily makes sure she eats well. “I really, as cheesy as this sounds, truly believe that mental and physical are really aligned, so taking care of yourself physically will help you mentally and vice versa,” she said. ![]() She also can appreciate walks on the beach with her dogs and son:īut Emily also shared with InStyle that she feels like whatever she does to boost her mind will also help her body. Emily can also bust a move, whipping out dance routines on TikTok like it’s nothing. You end up working harder and it's a better, more intense workout, without even noticing.”Īlso, in the mix: Hiking and yoga. EmRata, who is a spokesperson for the brand, told InStyle that she likes the classes because “you just feel like you're, you know, Superwoman really pushing herself. ![]() One class Emily is into is Strong by Zumba, a more intense version of the classic Zumba classes. “The class environment works really, really well for me.” “I'm one of those people who, if I go to the gym by myself, there's a 50/50 chance of me actually working out and really pushing myself,” she told InStyle. While Emily looks incredibly strong these days, she says you’re unlikely to find her hitting the gym alone. “The most sensual ride this motorcyclist has ever taken!” one person wrote, while another said, “Mother is mothering.”īy the way, this new collection looks pretty spicy: Emily shared videos and photos late last week of herself hanging in the shower in a red bikini from the set, and she looks next-level fit. Emily’s top and booty shorts have a Brazilian theme, and she shared in the caption that it’s part of a capsule collection between her Inamorata line and Mirror Palais, dropping on Friday. ![]()
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