Emily Ratajkowski Talks “Traumatizing” Nude Photo Leak in Podcast

Emily Ratajkowski needs to choose back again possession of her system, and OnlyFans, she says, could be her way of undertaking that.

The model—who received her get started dancing nude in Robin Thicke’s 2013 “Blurred Lines” music video—knows a lot of her fame arrives from becoming overly sexualized in the industry.

In a new episode of her podcast, Substantial Small, she claims that though she has contributed to that storyline—by sharing captivating pics of herself on her social media accounts—it is finally her physique to share how she sees suit, and her movie star position has rather designed people today believe that they can use her body and image for gain without having her consent.

“I have experienced guides of shots of me offered without my consent, I have had individuals gain off of my image—usually men—and I’ve bought no slash off it actually a great deal of the moments it truly is price tag me funds,” she claims in the episode produced right now, March 2.

She provides that in the celebrity iCloud hack of 2014 (when superstars like EmRata, Jennifer Lawrence, Kim Kardashian, and Rihanna experienced their iClouds hacked and own images leaked), she had to employ a law firm and a tech corporation to clean up the Net of her pictures. She also used dollars to invest in an art piece made of her by Richard Prince. And on a different situation, she experienced to use a law firm when photographer Jonathan Leder experienced an artwork exhibit and allegedly released a reserve of photos of her with out her consent.

Also, she states, paparazzi continually take images of her, and her toddler son, without her authorization.

Recalling these situations, Ratajkowski states she’s had “exceptionally brutal items take place” to her concerning the sexualization of her overall body, and for a very long time, she has been hoping to figure out how to get again handle.

The nude photograph leak, she says, “was one particular of the most traumatizing experiences of my everyday living. I missing a patch of hair the week it happened.”

She carries on, “I considered my career was over—it was at a place exactly where I truly wanted to be a significant actress and everybody was telling me that I might been photographed bare so a great deal that it was gonna be difficult for men and women to just take me very seriously. And there was a large amount of discussion that these pics experienced been leaked deliberately, a lot of slut shaming. And they have been extremely intimate pictures they have been meant for an individual that I was in appreciate with. And it was terrible. I can’t tell you.”

In the podcast episode, titled “Must I Start off an OnlyFans?” the My Human body writer recalls a current conversation she experienced on her podcast with rapper Iggy Azalea about how the platform—where individuals cost for views of their own pictures or videos—helped Azalea feel in management of her sexuality and entire body picture.

Azalea told Ratajkowski that a lot of moments in the previous, she was the previous human being to gain off her overall body, and so launching her OnlyFans was her way of reclaiming her physique and generating some dollars although executing it.

EmRata clarifies in the most current podcast episode that although she won’t feel joining the system would be an act of modern-day feminism, she does believe it could be a way for her to sense empowered all over again.