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| Subject: Emily Ratajkowski puts to paper her searing insights on beauty, sexuality and shame Thu Feb 18, 2016 3:25 am | |
| Emily Ratajkowski is a model, actress and feminist who rose to fame via Robin Thicke's infamous Blurred Lines video before playing Ben Affleck's mistress in Gone Girl. With that in mind, her thoughts on beauty, sexuality, childhood, womanhood, body autonomy and shame were always going to be complex.
It's "a messy, messy business" for women to honour their sexuality, Ratajkowski says; but it's also necessary - and she's reflected on her need to find a space for "ownership and enjoyment of my gender" in a searingly personal essay for Lena Dunham's Lenny Letter.
In the piece, titled 'Baby Woman' after her father's affectionate description of her developing form, Ratajkowski, now 24, tracks the moments through her childhood and adolescence when she began to realise her body was becoming something other than just her own. Her body parts were given meaning by others - 'beautiful', 'desirable', 'sexual', 'trashy' - transforming them into a force those others then expected her to contain and repress.''
http://www.dailylife.com.au/dl-people/celebrity-news/emily-ratajkowski-puts-to-paper-her-searing-insights-on-beauty-sexuality-and-shame-20160216-gmw4u7.html |
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