Some essays recount the author’s hustle as a young model who often found herself in troubling situations with powerful men another is written as a long, venomous reply to an email from a photographer who has bragged of discovering her. With “My Body,” Ratajkowski has created a new mirror for glimpsing her own reflection. It’s just another picture.” Sixteen years in the modeling industry - over half her lifetime - have left Ratajkowski burned out and grasping for narrative. “I can’t even tell what’s a good or bad picture in the same way.
“I don’t even know what I look like anymore,” Ratajkowski confesses to me.
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For a model, this existential fact is promoted, or relegated, to a professional one.
Yes, we can look down at our limbs and trunks, but we cannot enter our own regard as subjects we cannot see ourselves seeing.
This is an existential fact, as sure as death. (It isn’t.) After “Buying Myself Back” came out, a journalist unearthed a 2018 profile in Marie Claire in which the writer Thomas Chatterton Williams lavishly praised her breasts while expressing surprise that she’d read Roberto Bolaño’s daunting novel “2666.” An irritated Ratajkowski tweeted her exhaustion with profiles that have boiled down to “She has breasts AND claims to read.” Others asked if her face is on the book’s cover. Someone recently asked her who her ghostwriter was. Indeed, the author has spent her career dodging the backhanded compliment that she is the “thinking man’s naked woman.” Failure will be met with schadenfreude success, with smug surprise. Several times, Ratajkowski characterizes writing as a means of “organizing” her own thoughts - not as an act of branding but out of what strikes me as the genuine curiosity of a woman whom constant exposure has deprived of the possibility of self-knowledge.īut Ratajkowski knows she is in an impossible position as a model-turned-writer. One day she realized she was writing a book. In fact, she began working on “My Body” without anyone but herself in mind, jotting down notes on her phone as they occurred to her. Ratajkowski also wrote that the photographer Jonathan Leder sexually assaulted her in his home after a photo shoot when she was 20.Īt lunch, Ratajkowski explains that New York magazine took “Buying Myself Back” from her book proposal. The book’s marquee essay, “Buying Myself Back,” which describes how Ratajkowski ended up purchasing a print of her own Instagram post from the appropriation artist Richard Prince, was published to great notice in New York magazine last fall. We are here to talk about Ratajkowski’s new book, “My Body.” In it, she reflects on her fraught relationship with the huge number of photographs of her body that have come to define her life and career. We remark casually on the restaurant’s ambience, noting its proximity to various locations. I, who have never been in a music video but have been naked many times, also order something. Ratajkowski, a model who first became famous for appearing naked in a music video, orders something. We consult the restaurant’s menu, which boasts many items. Instead, I will tell you this: We are having lunch at a restaurant. I’m not going to tell you what the hostess said to Emily Ratajkowski.
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