Emily Ratajkowski: ‘They wrote me off as a desperate attention whore’

THE 25-year-old model has written a piece in Glamour magazine about the “attention-seeking” double standard she says women often face.

Emily Ratajkowski has penned as essay for Glamour magazine.

EMILY Ratajkowski says she’s been “called an attention whore so often that I had almost gotten used to it”.

The 25-year old model, who is famous for starring in the Blurred Lines music video and for appearing in Gone Girl, has written a piece in Glamour magazine about the “‘attention-seeking’ double standard she says women often face”.

In the piece, Ratajkowski writes that she was “trolled heavily” after she “had the honour of speaking at a Bernie Sanders rally” in February.

“Having been politically minded throughout my life, I felt it only natural to support the candidate I believed in,” she writes, “The internet, however, felt otherwise”.

Robin Thicke and Emily Ratajkowski in the Blurred Lines video.

“Commenters said I had ‘an excess of beauty and lack of brain’ and told me to ‘shut up and show us your tits’. But I was also criticised in a very specific way — for seeking attention. They wrote me off as ‘a desperate attention whore’, saying I was taking part in the conversation only because everybody else was too.

“I realised then that I’ve been called an attention whore so often that I had almost gotten used to it. And as women we are accused of seeking attention more than men are, whether for speaking out politically, as I did, for dressing a certain way, or for even posting a selfie. Our culture has a double standard that runs so deep, many women have actually built up an automatic defence — attempting to be a step ahead of potential critics by making sure we have ‘real’ reasons for anything we say or do.”

Emily Ratajkowski also starred alongside Zac Efron in We Are Your Friends.

In the lengthy essay, Ratajkowski points out several double standards, such as how Madonna gets flak for her “artistic sexuality” whereas Mick Jagger doesn’t cop any criticism.

In conclusion, the young star writes: “The ideal feminist world shouldn’t be one where women suppress their human instincts for attention and desire. We shouldn’t be weighed down with the responsibility of explaining our every move. We shouldn’t have to apologise for wanting attention either. We don’t owe anyone an explanation.

“It’s not our responsibility to change the way we are seen — it’s society’s responsibility to change the way it sees us.”

Read Emily Ratajkowski’s full essay at Glamour magazine