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Emily Ratajkowski Reveals How Sexualizing Her Own Body Made Her ‘So Unhappy’

Model and actress Emily Ratajkowski is known worldwide for her looks, which are hard to miss.

By Gwen Farrell4 min read
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The now 30 year old first caught attention at age 21 when she appeared almost completely nude in singer Robin Thicke’s raunchy music video for his 2013 hit “Blurred Lines.” Now, Ratajkowski is releasing a memoir entitled My Body in which she discloses a number of traumatic events, even some that occurred at a disturbingly young age. In a candid and sometimes painful interview with the Sunday Times Magazine, Ratajkowski disclosed that in the process of retaking control of her image, she began sexualizing her own body and became “so unhappy.”