She is on the promotional trail as she gears up to release her literary debut My Body, on Tuesday.
And on Monday, Emily Ratajkowski cut a sombre figure as she wore double denim while arriving at CBS studios in NYC.
The 30-year-old model elegantly displayed her slim frame in an indigo shirt, buttoned up to the collar, which she teamed with a matching pair of flared jeans.
Low-key: On Monday, Emily Ratajkowski, 30, cut a sombre figure as she wore double denim while arriving at CBS studios in NYC
Emily’s cowgirl inspired shirt boasted three-quarter length sleeves, two breast pockets and silver contrast buttons.
She highlighted her tiny waist with the help of a dark brown plaited belt, and boosted her height with heeled boots.
The brunette beauty wore her tresses parted in the centre and enhanced her flawless visage with a light dusting of make-up.
She was later spotted wearing a gorgeous cream colored, turtleneck sweater paired with a pleated skirt
Flawless: The brunette beauty wore her tresses parted in the centre and enhanced her flawless visage with a light dusting of make-up
Stylish: The model elegantly displayed her slim frame in an indigo shirt, buttoned up to the collar, which she teamed with a matching pair of flared jeans
Perfection: She highlighted her tiny waist with the help of a dark brown plaited belt, and boosted her height with heeled boots
Her fashion forward ensemble was complete with a pair of camel colored, knee-high leather boots.
Emily’s CBS appearance comes after she revealed she was once paid $25K to attend the Super Bowl with disgraced Malaysian financier Low Taek Jho, 40, aka Jho Low.
The fugitive is facing eight charges of money laundering in the 1MDB scandal, and Inamorata CEO Emily told The Sunday Times Magazine of the gig: ‘I was on the clock.’
The model also said she ‘was not at all shocked’ by the Jeffrey Epstein scandal as she used to attend luxurious Coachella parties packed with powerful older men and ‘good-time girls.’
Winter whites: She was later spotted wearing a gorgeous cream colored turtleneck sweater paired with a pleated skirt
Chic in the city: Her fashion forward ensemble was complete with a pair of camel colored, knee-high leather boots
Classic: She shielded her eyes from the bright morning sun with a pair of rectangular lenses and carried her iPhone in one hand in addition to a set of keys
‘A lot of my experiences with Coachella, or whatever, the transaction wasn’t defined. The terms of agreement weren’t named. I found out later that they invited girls who couldn’t afford food or a nice meal out to these fancy dinners in LA.
‘That was a motivator for them to come. And that’s manipulation,’ the London-born SoCal native said.
‘I witnessed so much of that in different forms. Right before Covid I went to some new nightclub and it was really empty. All of a sudden 10 – I would guess if they weren’t underage then barely of age – models arrive with one guy.
‘I was, like, “Oh right, the same thing is still happening. Beautiful girls being out at a club and rich men paying indirectly to have them there.”‘
In her new book My Body, Emily claims singer Robin Thicke groped her breasts on the set of his Blurred Lines video in 2013 and that photographer Jonathan Leder sexually assaulted her in 2011.
Candid: Emily has admitted to ‘exploiting herself’ and ‘using her body’ to get ‘fame and success’ in an explosive new interview with CBS
Admission: Her admissions come just one day after she slammed the industry for paying her to attend events with men
‘These were the experiences I didn’t want to look at because they made me feel out of control of my own life and I was afraid of acknowledging that,’ Ratajkowski admitted.
‘I didn’t sit down to write a list of the traumatic events in my life. At all. But there were experiences that I had a lot of shame around and there is this validation that comes with people reading it and recognizing your experience as being real and it existing.’
Emily has also admitted to ‘exploiting herself’ and ‘using her body’ to get ‘fame and success’ in a sensational new interview.
The actress and model confessed to ‘capitalizing on her sexuality’ when she was younger in attempt to gain control during an interview with CBS Mornings on Monday – recalling how she saw her self-exploitation as a form of ’empowerment’, a view that has changed as she’s grown older.
‘[In] my early 20s, I really thought of myself as hustling and working the system and saying, “Okay, I know what I can get from becoming a model and from using my body to have fame and success.” And, I even called it empowerment,’ she explained.
On my way! Ahead of her TV appearance, Emily shared a selfie telling fans that she would soon be on CBS mornings
‘I was in the Blurred Lines video – that was my big breakthrough moment – and I told everyone that felt like an empowering experience,’ she said.
‘But, as I’ve gotten older, I realized that it’s a bit more complicated and feel a responsibility to tell young girls that.
‘I would be wrong to say that it’s just simply empowering to capitalize on your sexuality and your beauty as a woman.’
The mom-of-one continued, ‘I’m not interested in cancelling anyone. For me it was telling the truth of the whole reality of that experience. Because for so long everything I said was, “It was so fun,” which, by the way, it was also.’
Emily explained that she liked to ‘use her sexuality’ and ‘capitalize on her image’ because she felt it gave her ‘some kind of control.’ But she realizes now that she never really had any power until she wrote her book, My Body – which is set to come out on Tuesday, November 9.
‘I don’t think that exploiting myself is progress at all, I think that it just offered me some kind of control. The only time I feel like I’ve experienced empowerment is through writing this book and telling this story and even just making something, creating something. That feels like real power,’ she said.
While speaking to The Sunday Times Magazine one day earlier, Emily confessed that she has previously accepted thousands of dollars in return for attending events with different men – although she is now blasting the practice as a form of ‘manipulation’.
Now, when asked how she could publicly call out these things but also admit to participating in them, Emily explained, ‘I think it’s really important – politicians are a perfect example of that – they’re criticizing the system and they’re still working within it, because you want it to change.
‘As somebody who you can Google and look at my Instagram and see all this glamorous and success, fame… It’s really important to give people the full story.’
She continued, ‘I don’t fault young girls and I would never shame them for how they dress or how they try to work the system or try to be.
‘That being said, I don’t want [them] to think it’s gonna be a beautiful pathway with flowers… It’s more complicated than that. There’s a lot of ways that you can be hurt. Especially if you are naïve.
‘I was defiant. I really wanted to believe I was an example of a woman empowered. That if this was feminism that you can use your body to have fame and success, and in some ways that’s totally true. In other ways I didn’t feel empowered because it’s more complicated than just that.
‘It’s a cultural shift. There’s obviously ways that we can protect models but it’s a really complicated industry because it’s just about using women’s bodies to sell products,’ she said.
‘So ultimately there’s always going to be a level of objectifying. I think though, having respect for these young women, offering them as much control as we can, is huge.
‘In general, and how we treat young girls and how we teach them – in all kinds of subtle ways – that they are kind obligated to be really sweet, never let what they need and protect themselves be known.’
‘I think women and men can benefit from understanding these power dynamics. Understanding the ways that sometimes men feel intimidated, that they have something to prove, there are some things that are hard for men too,’ she said.
‘Toxic masculinity is bad for everyone. I wanna take that pressure off him and also make him aware of how he can hurt women in certain situations.’
Dropping Tuesday! In her literary debut My Body, Emily claims singer Robin Thicke groped her breasts on the set of his Blurred Lines video in 2013 and that photographer Jonathan Leder sexually assaulted her in 2011