Emily Ratajkowski is publishing a book of essays.
And on Thursday the We Are Your Friends star shared a look at the cover My Body… which has been billed as a ‘personal exploration of feminism, sexuality, and power of men’s treatment of women.’
‘Thrilled to share the cover of MY BODY. It’s surreal to pre-order my own book! Thank you to all who have shared, ordered and made me feel so supported today. Can’t wait for you all to read these essays,’ she said in her caption; the book is due out in 2022.
Author: Emily Ratajkowski is publishing a book of essays. And on Thursday the We Are Your Friends star shared a look at the cover My Body… which has been billed as a ‘personal exploration of feminism, sexuality, and power of men’s treatment of women’
The look: ‘Thrilled to share the cover of MY BODY. It’s surreal to pre-order my own book! Thank you to all who have shared, ordered and made me feel so supported today. Can’t wait for you all to read these essays,’ she said in her caption; the book is due out in 2022
In another post she said: ‘This is the cover of ✨MY BOOK✨! Now available for pre-order. I don’t think I’ve ever been this excited to share something before. Link to pre-order and read a little about these essays in my bio.’
Last fall she shared: ‘Thrilled and humbled to announce my book of essays entitled ‘My Body’ will be published by Metropolitan Books @macmillanusa @henryholtbooks.
‘It’s surreal to be working with an imprint that has published so many writers I admire (Noam Chomsky! Edward Snowden!) Now it’s time to get to work!’
Model, actress and now writer: In another post she said: ‘This is the cover of ✨MY BOOK✨! Now available for pre-order. I don’t think I’ve ever been this excited to share something before. Link to pre-order and read a little about these essays in my bio.’ Seen last week
Metropolitan editor Sara Bershtel said in a statement: ‘Emily Ratajkowski reveals herself to be devastatingly honest, nuanced, and strong – I’m not surprised that she thinks of herself first as a writer. I also admire how outspoken she is, how political, and how unafraid – what force she’ll be!’
Meanwhile, the 30-year-old model-and-actress previously insisted she never wanted to be famous.
She said: ‘I think, for me, the way I use my image and as a model and capitalize off of it has been very much about survival, rather than a representation of who I am.
‘Modelling was an amazing way to make money and gain stability; fame came with that and it was a bizarre thing. Fame wasn’t something I had really expected or really wanted – although deep down probably every 20 year old girl wants to be famous a little bit.
So much at once: Last fall she shared: ‘Thrilled and humbled to announce my book of essays entitled ‘My Body’ will be published by Metropolitan Books @macmillanusa @henryholtbooks. This year she is expecting her first child
‘I feel really good about the fact that everything I’ve ever put out has been highly curated. What you see online is not my whole life. I think that sometimes people think they know everything about me. ‘Oh, we know all about your dog,’ or ‘We see your husband…’ But that’s not really who I am.
‘It’s a magazine or it’s an editorial, you know? I’m proud of the fact that I protected myself and did the work of privately figuring out who the f*** I am.’
The book deal comes after the Gone Girl star and pal Amy Schumer were arrested in 2018 following protests over the possible appointment of Brett Kavanaugh – who has been accused of sexual assault – to the Supreme Court when they were picked up by police and taken into custody.
Last year she talked about her image: ‘I feel really good about the fact that everything I’ve ever put out has been highly curated. What you see online is not my whole life. I think that sometimes people think they know everything about me. ‘Oh, we know all about your dog,’ or ‘We see your husband…’ But that’s not really who I am’
Ratajkowski revealed last year she is expecting her first child.
The model revealed she is pregnant with her first child with her husband Sebastian Bear-McClard, and has said she’s keen to raise her baby in a gender-neutral environment, because she doesn’t want to ‘force gender stereotypes’ on her future child.
In an essay for Vogue in which she announced her pregnancy, she wrote: ‘When my husband and I tell friends that I’m pregnant, their first question after ‘Congratulations’ is almost always “Do you know what you want?”
‘We like to respond that we won’t know the gender until our child is 18 and that they’ll let us know then. Everyone laughs at this. There is a truth to our line, though, one that hints at possibilities that are much more complex than whatever genitalia our child might be born with: the truth that we ultimately have no idea who – rather than what – is growing inside my belly.
‘Who will this person be? What kind of person will we become parents to? How will they change our lives and who we are? This is a wondrous and terrifying concept, one that renders us both helpless and humbled.’
A celebration: She wore black for this photo taken in New York City
Emily understands ‘the desire’ for people to know the ‘gender of our foetus’, and although she doesn’t want to think about her child in terms of gender, she noted she has always wanted a daughter.
She added: ‘I like the idea of forcing as few gender stereotypes on my child as possible. But no matter how progressive I may hope to be, I understand the desire to know the gender of our foetus; it feels like the first real opportunity to glimpse who they might be.
‘It occurs to me that as a younger person I’d almost automatically imagined myself having a daughter. I remember playing as a child, holding baby dolls and picturing myself with a future best friend: something like the American Girl doll I owned, who had brown eyes and brown hair to mirror my own features, a smaller version of myself.’
Her baby shower: Last week friends surprised her with a baby showed for her little one
The model closed her essay by noting she has already learned so much from her baby, and is ‘full of wonder’ about what her future as a mother will hold.
She said: ‘I used to use magical thinking whenever I wanted something to go a certain way. Now, though, I don’t try to envision a pink or blue blanket in my arms. I’m too humbled to have any false notions of control. I’m completely and undeniably helpless when it comes to almost everything surrounding my pregnancy: how my body will change, who my child will be. But I’m surprisingly unbothered. Instead of feeling afraid, I feel a new sense of peace. I’m already learning from this person inside my body. I’m full of wonder.’
And this month she said she ‘feels really lucky’ to be pregnant.
She admits she ‘never really understood’ what it was like to make a family before she fell pregnant but she is really looking forward to expanding her family with her beau.
Speaking in a video to promote her new Kérastase Genesis range, she said: ‘I’ve never really understood what it would be like to make a family and growing a family is an amazing eye opening experience and I feel really lucky. I don’t know what motherhood is going to be like of course because this is my first time and everyone as such different experiences and perspectives. So, the best thing to do is just trust in the process and take each day at a time and then see where this ride takes me.’
