Emily Ratajkowski

About Emily Ratajkowski

Emily O'Hara Ratajkowski, known occasionally as EmRata, is an American model and actress.

With encouragement from an acting coach, Ratajkowski met and signed with a talent agent who contacted Ford Models. That same day, she signed with Ford at age 14. She went on to do teen print catalog modeling for Kohl's and Nordstrom. At 15, she began auditioning for Disney and iCarly roles, but she was often typecast as a bully or cheerleader, and bigger roles did not materialize.

Ratajkowski's feature film debut was a supporting role as the mistress of Ben Affleck's character in Gone Girl (2014). She appeared in the 2014 and 2015 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues. She made her professional catwalk debut for Marc Jacobs at New York Fashion Week in 2015 and has also walked at Paris Fashion Week and Milan Fashion Week. Citing her international Vogue covers and high fashion campaigns, Models.com ranks her as one of the new generation of supermodels.

Ratajkowski is a spokesperson for Planned Parenthood on women's health issues. She self-identifies as a feminist, and her views on sexual expression have received both support and criticism. Her essay collection, My Body, was published by Metropolitan Books in November 2021 and was on the New York Times Bestseller list.

Ratajkowski is of English, Irish, Polish and Ashkenazi Jewish descent. She refers to herself as "Polish-Israeli" due to her Polish and Ashkenazi Jewish heritage. On February 23, 2018, she 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. They lived in the NoHo neighborhood of Manhattan and in Los Angeles. On October 26, 2020, she confirmed she was pregnant in a Vogue essay about how she and her husband did not wish to discuss their child's sex. She gave birth to their son on March 8, 2021. In July 2022, Ratajkowski and Bear-McClard separated. In September, she filed for divorce.