Emily Ratajkowski opens up about end of her marriage to Sebastian Bear McClard

Emily Ratajkowski has finally given an answer to one of the biggest questions surrounding her split from Sebastian Bear McClard.

Emily Ratajkowski has finally given an answer to one of the biggest questions surrounding her split from Sebastian Bear McClard.

The best-selling author and model ended her marriage of four years to the film director last July, amid reports he had cheated on her several times.

“You’re this contemporary, ideal, perfect woman,” host Eileen Kelly told Ratajkowski in a recent episode of the Going Mental podcast, recalling the public’s reaction to the news.

“It’s like, ‘Oh sh*t, if she could get cheated on, we’re all f***ed.’”

Tweets at the time, some which Ratajkowski liked (seemingly confirming McClard had been unfaithful), read: “Can’t believe that little b**ch cheated on EmRata”, “If Em Rata’s husband cheats on her, what hope do I have?” and, “If Em Rata can’t keep a man, then I’m done”.

The answer, the 31-year-old told Kelly, is simple: “Duh, men are trash ladies.”

Emily Ratajkowski and Sebastian Bear-McClard in 2018. Picture; Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images

Ratajkowski split from the film director last July. Picture: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images

“And [it] doesn’t matter who you are, or how ‘perfect’ you are or whatever,” Ratajkowski added, saying she tried “everything” to save her marriage.

“I didn’t have the courage to leave for a long time. I was really, really unhappy. I was like, 100 pounds and I had just had a baby. I got really skinny because I was not okay.”

The mother-of-one admitted she tried to take antidepressants because she was “sure there was something wrong with me”.

“I think so much of what I learned coming out of that relationship is to trust your instincts. Gaslighting is a real thing.”

Ratajkowski said she tried ‘everything’ to save her marriage. Picture: TikTok

Going Mental host Eileen Kelly. Picture: TikTok

She told Kelly that the birth of her son Sylvester, just a year prior, made the decision to leave all the more difficult – as did societal pressure for people to find (and stay with) one person forever.

“Every piece of media we consume from the second we are born is basically this idea of finding a partner that completes and validates you,” Ratajkowski said.

“Plus, I had just had a child, so I really wanted to have that family. So it was especially hard for me to totally walk away.”

Without revealing what happened, the My Body author said she walked away after McClard crossed a line for the last time.

“For me, it was so clear and then it just became clearer and clearer and clearer, which was good, which was clarifying.”

‘I had just had a child, so I really wanted to have that family. So it was especially hard for me to totally walk away.’ Picture: Instagram

Ratajkowski also admitted she’d previously “abandoned” her “own priorities in order to be loved or to be chosen”, both romantically and professionally.

“I was appealing to a lot of powerful men, essentially,” she said.

“I just totally abandoned my own boundaries and my own ideas of what is important.”

But now, she said, “I’m super-grounded … I have basically curated my life exactly to how I want it to be. It’s almost hard to imagine somebody coming in … and bringing things to the table.”