1. Emily Ratajkowski appeared in the 2014 and 2015 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues, and made her professional catwalk modeling debut for Marc Jacobs at New York Fashion Week in 2015.
58 Facts About Emily Ratajkowski
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Emily Ratajkowski has walked on the runways of Paris Fashion Week and Milan Fashion Week.
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Emily Ratajkowski is an advocate for women's health issues as a spokesperson for Planned Parenthood.
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Emily Ratajkowski was raised in the San Diego suburb of Encinitas, California.
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Emily Ratajkowski attended UCLA for a year before dropping out to model full-time.
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Emily Ratajkowski's father was raised Roman Catholic, whereas her mother is Jewish.
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Emily Ratajkowski has stated that she ethnically identifies herself as "Polish-Israeli", as her ancestors made aliyah from Central Europe.
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Emily Ratajkowski spent her summers during her youth in Bantry, County Cork, Ireland and Sant Joan, Mallorca, Spain where the family vacationed.
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Emily Ratajkowski participated in a few local theater productions as a child and young teen.
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At 15, Emily Ratajkowski began auditioning for Disney and iCarly roles, but she was often typecast as a bully or cheerleader and bigger roles did not materialize.
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Emily Ratajkowski attended San Dieguito Academy, a high school in Encinitas, while modeling and acting in Los Angeles.
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Emily Ratajkowski's manager discouraged her from pursuing many acting engagements until she could be more selective.
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Emily Ratajkowski attended UCLA for one year in 2009, and dropped out, deciding to model full-time.
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Emily Ratajkowski later said that she found the fine art education at the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture arbitrary and in conflict with her artistic concepts, and that she did not enjoy going to fraternities.
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Emily Ratajkowski did nude and clothed art modeling for magazines, including a May 2012 shoot with Jonathan Leder, as well as work for Frederick's of Hollywood; a 2012 holiday video and a 2011 Valentine's video in which Ratajkowski appeared for the company are among the most popular videos on the company's YouTube channel.
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Emily Ratajkowski worked with photographer Tony Kelly for the March 2013 GQ Turkey cover.
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Emily Ratajkowski initially declined the role, fearing being classified as a music video model, but Martel persuaded her.
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Emily Ratajkowski was on the July 2013 cover of CR Fashion Book, which included erotic scenes with Karlie Kloss and male models, photographed by Bruce Weber.
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Days after Gone Girl September 26,2014, New York Film Festival premiere, Emily Ratajkowski became the cover model for the November 2014 issue of Cosmopolitan.
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Emily Ratajkowski appeared on the February 2015 FHM cover, but she tweeted that her picture was used without her consent.
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Emily Ratajkowski co-starred in the 2015 film Entourage as a fictionalized version of herself, playing the love interest of Adrian Grenier's character, Vincent Chase.
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Emily Ratajkowski's performance received critical commentary ranging from "less than compelling", by The Hollywood Reporter Sheri Linden, to "uncanny realism", by The Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea.
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Emily Ratajkowski was cast in the 2015 miniseries The Spoils Before Dying as Agent Day, appearing late in the series.
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Emily Ratajkowski earned her first leading role, opposite Zac Efron, in We Are Your Friends, a musical drama released in August 2015, and was part of the film's promotional tour to Europe and North America.
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Burr said that Emily Ratajkowski's performance was "surpassingly dull", while Nell Minow of Beliefnet stated that she "does more posing than acting".
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Around the time of the release of We Are Your Friends, Emily Ratajkowski appeared on the covers of Grazia France, British GQ, harper by Harper's Bazaar, InStyle UK, and InStyle Australia, as well as a role as a 2015 MTV Video Music Awards presenter.
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Emily Ratajkowski has expressed the desire to break barriers for shorter and more curvaceous models, commenting: "You don't have to be 5'9" and an A-cup to be a successful model.
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In February 2016, Emily Ratajkowski was cast in the film In Darkness, alongside Natalie Dormer, Ed Skrein, and Stacy Martin.
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Emily Ratajkowski was one of five models to appear on the August 2016 Vogue Germany alternate covers along with Stella Maxwell, Irina Shayk, Lily Aldridge, and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley.
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Emily Ratajkowski appeared in a season 1 episode of Joe Swanberg's Netflix series, Easy that was released on September 22,2016.
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Emily Ratajkowski's episode, in which she is a lifecasting selfie artist, met with mixed reviews.
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Emily Ratajkowski began 2017 on the February Vogue Espana cover shot by Miguel Reveriego.
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In March 2017, Emily Ratajkowski became the face of DKNY intimates.
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That July, after modeling for the French fashion brand The Kooples's Fall 2017 collection, Emily Ratajkowski was enlisted to design a 38-piece bag collection for the company.
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Later that month, Emily Ratajkowski revealed that she was working with a dialogue coach to learn the French and Italian languages for Lying and Stealing.
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In January 2018, Emily Ratajkowski shot a fashion campaign with Inez and Vinoodh, as the new ambassador for Kerastase.
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Emily Ratajkowski was featured on the cover of the June 2018 issue of Marie Claire.
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Emily Ratajkowski designed the mythology-themed "EmRata x Spinelli Kilcollin" jewelry collection with Spinelli Kilcollin that launched at Barneys New York on May 30,2018, with prices starting at $6,000.
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On September 21,2018, Emily Ratajkowski walked the Milan Fashion Week runway for Versace.
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In October 2022, Emily Ratajkowski partnered with Sony Music Entertainment to launch a podcast entitled "High Low with EmRata".
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Emily Ratajkowski explained that she fired her team, including her agents and manager, because she "didn't trust them".
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Emily Ratajkowski has been frequently named in lists and polls that rank beauty or fashion in the media.
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Emily Ratajkowski was ranked in Maxim Hot 100 list in both 2014 and 2015.
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Emily Ratajkowski is praised for her fashion sense: Ratajkowski made Vogue Italia's Best Dressed List of 2015, and Harper's Bazaar placed her atop its best dressed list at the February 2016 New York Fashion Week.
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Emily Ratajkowski was one of the victims of the 2014 celebrity nude photo leak, in which several nude pictures of her were leaked online.
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Seven years later, Emily Ratajkowski took a photograph of herself standing in front of the Prince painting, and created a non-fungible token from it.
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On November 30,2016, Emily Ratajkowski tweeted that she was being featured in the photobook publication without her consent.
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New York noted that Emily Ratajkowski had claimed that the pictures were intended for use in an artful magazine, while USA Today noted that she had hesitated to protest because she did not want to give Leder publicity.
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In September 2017, Emily Ratajkowski took issue with image editing done for the cover of the Madame Figaro issue included in the Saturday September 16 issue Le Figaro.
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In October 2019, Emily Ratajkowski was sued for posting a paparazzi image of herself to her Instagram.
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Robert O'Neil, the paparazzo who took the photo at issue, argued that Emily Ratajkowski's posting of the photo constituted copyright infringement.
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However, Emily Ratajkowski has decided against settling the suit and is challenging O'Neil's claim against her.
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In 2022, a settlement was ruled in favor of Emily Ratajkowski, for having not infringed the copyright.
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In 2017, Emily Ratajkowski promoted that April's Fyre Festival on Instagram with Kendall Jenner, Bella Hadid, and other actresses and models.
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Commentator Piers Morgan reacted to Emily Ratajkowski's letter by saying that her form of feminism was a misguided affront to true feminism, labeling it pseudo-feminist gibberish.
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In 2021, Emily Ratajkowski published her first book, My Body, which includes several previously published essays as well as personal stories.
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On February 23,2018, Emily Ratajkowski announced on Instagram that she had married actor and producer Sebastian Bear-McClard, her boyfriend of several weeks, in a New York City courthouse wedding.
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Emily Ratajkowski gave birth to their son on March 8,2021.