#362: Emily Ratajkowski: Feminism, Sexuality & Power

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🗓️ 11 November 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Hello, my guest today is Emily Ratajkowski, a model, actress, entrepreneur, and writer. She has starred in David Fincher's Gone Girl, among other films and has appeared on the covers of multiple magazines and walked the runway for numerous high fashion brands. Her 2020 essay for New York magazine, "Buying Myself Back," garnered over one million views within twenty-four hours and was the magazine's most-read piece of the year. My Body is her first book, and it’s out now, which we discuss the book in this episode. If you enjoyed her piece for New York magazine, you will absolutely love the book. It explores feminism, sexuality, power, men's treatment of women and women's rationalisations. These essays chronicle moments from Ratajkowski's life while investigating the culture we live in and its obsession with and contempt for women's sexuality and the dynamics of the fashion and film industries, and the grey areas when it comes to discussing such topics. Hope you enjoy this conversation!

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0:58.0	Hello and welcome back to Control or Delete. My guest today is the model, actress, entrepreneur,
1:03.6	and writer, Emily Retakowski. She starred in David Fincher's Gone Girl, amongst other films.
1:08.9	She's appeared on the covers of multiple high fashion magazines and bought the runway for many
1:13.9	fashion brands. Her 2020 essay for New York Magazine, buying myself back garnered over a million
1:19.7	hits within 24 hours and was the magazine's most red piece of the year. I don't know about you,
1:24.5	but I read that piece and I just wanted to talk to everyone I knew about it. It was amazingly written
1:29.6	and a really fascinating topic. So when her first book My Body was announced, I couldn't wait to
1:34.9	read it and I was very happy and grateful to have an early copy to read before this interview.
1:40.0	We discussed the book in this episode, and if you enjoyed the piece she wrote for New York Magazine,
1:44.4	you will absolutely love this book. It's more of the same, it's really brilliant, sprawling essays
1:49.2	about feminism, sexuality, power, men's treatment of women and women's rationalisations,
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