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Emily Ratajkowski brings activism to her pregnancy

2020-10-27T16:03:15.929Z


The model, a public defender of women's rights, announces that she is expecting a baby whose gender she prefers to know "when she is 18 years old and she tells us."


Emily Ratajkowski has taken her activism to her own pregnancy.

Throughout these years, the model has assumed an active role in various causes and a strong commitment to women's rights that has even led her to be detained on occasion.

With almost 27 million followers on Instagram, Ratajkowski knows the reach that each of his posts can have and also how far his speech can go.

For this reason, he has not wanted to miss the opportunity to announce that he is expecting a baby to question, at the same time, how society is built based on stereotypes and different values ​​for men and women.

"When my husband and I tell friends I'm pregnant, their first question after 'congratulations' is almost always: 'Do you know what you want me to be?'

We like to answer that we wouldn't want to know the gender until our son is 18 and tells us.

Everyone laughs at this, "wrote the model in an essay published in the US version of

Vogue

along with a photoshoot with Cass Bird and a video directed by her friend Lena Dunham.

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"Who will this person be?

What kind of person will we become parents to?

How will they change our lives and who we are? “Read my essay on pregnancy and gender on @voguemagazine 🤍 thank you for all the well wishes 🤍 @cassblackbird @jordenbickham

A post shared by Emily Ratajkowski (@emrata) on Oct 26, 2020 at 2:37 pm PDT

“There is a truth in our response, one that hints at possibilities that are far more complex than any genitals our child may be born with.

[...] I don't like it when we impose gender-based preconceptions on people, much less on babies.

I want to be a mother who allows my son to show himself to me ”, she has defended in her text.

The model, who was unveiled in a controversial video clip of Robin Thicke's song

Blurred lines

in 2013, is now one of the most followed women on Instagram and firms are scrambling to make her an ambassador.

He treads the catwalks little, but when he does, it is in a big way.

After three years without parading and being his unusual presence in fashion weeks, in 2019 he

sneaked

into

Donatella Versace's men's

show

in Milan, grabbing all the attention of the attendees.

Ratajkowski has also exploited her role as an actress and after a supporting role in

Perdida

(2014), in 2018 she got to participate in four other films.

Now she is focused on her side as a designer - she has created her own brand of bikinis - and would like to produce.

“I am developing my own projects.

The last couple of years I've made that a priority.

Now I can start making my own movies.

I want to

participate in more projects with feminine perspective ,

"he told the magazine

Icon

of

El Pais

last year.

She is also writing a book

My body

, scheduled for 2022 and in which she will relate some of her experiences about what it means to be a woman in today's society.

A preview of this autobiographical story has undoubtedly been this essay on her future motherhood.

This 29-year-old American, born in the United Kingdom and who spent part of her childhood in a town in Mallorca, carries deep-rooted feminism thanks to her parents.

The daughter of a painter and a literature teacher, Ratajkowski explained in

Icon

how the conversations between her parents awakened her vindictive consciousness.

“I started to have a feminist consciousness very early thanks to my mother, who teaches literature.

In the same way that some people have a religion that marks their childhood, I listened to the conversations of my parents, who are two super-politicized people.

Being a model and a feminist is definitely not a contradiction for me, ”she said, again highlighting her disagreement with stereotypes:“ I think there is an assumption, partly due to certain stereotypes, of how a feminist should be and should be.

The idea that a woman must have a certain appearance to have certain beliefs is sexist.

Anyone can be a feminist as long as that is their choice, regardless of what they do and how they look ”.

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This week, 25 old white men voted to ban abortion in Alabama even in cases of incest and rape.

These men in power are imposing their wills onto the bodies of women in order to uphold the patriarchy and perpetuate the industrial prison complex by preventing women of low economic opportunity the right to choose to not reproduce.

The states trying to ban abortion are the states that have the highest proportions of black women living there.

This is about class and race and is a direct attack on the fundamental human rights women in the US deserve and are protected by under Roe vs.

Wade.

Our bodies, our choice.

A post shared by Emily Ratajkowski (@emrata) on May 16, 2019 at 9:45 am PDT

Accustomed to facing criticism that does not share that feminism and femininity can go hand in hand, Ratajkowski shows that anyone can defend their convictions as they wish.

She has used her body not only to conquer men's magazines - in 2013 she was chosen as Woman of the Year by

Esquire

and months later

GQ

dedicated her cover to her - and women's

magazines

- she has posed for

Vogue

,

Marie Claire

or

SModa

, among many others. - but also to denounce those causes that it defends.

He did so in 2017, when he posted a topless image on Instagram for criticizing measures by US President Donald Trump that make it difficult to access free contraceptive coverage.

And also in May of last year, when she completely undressed to protest Alabama's law banning abortion.

Much of his claims are made through his Instagram account, where he promotes his work or the causes in which he believes, such as the Black Lives Matter movement or Me Too.

But it leaves no room for your privacy.

"I do not teach every second of my life and it is important for me to make that distinction," he acknowledged in

El País weekly

a few years ago.

Her surprise wedding in February 2018, at New York City Hall, dressed as Zara, with only four friends as witnesses, and with a groom, the actor and producer

Sebastian Bear-McClard, whose relationship was unknown, or secretly carrying her pregnancy until six months of gestation shows that he is telling the truth.

Her fight for women's rights has led her to demonstrate on several occasions and even to be arrested in one of the concentrations against Judge Brett Kavanaugh, in October 2018. After being released, she posted a

post

on Instagram.

Today I was arrested for protesting the appointment of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.

A man who has been accused by multiple women of sexual assault.

Men who harm women can no longer be placed in positions of power, "he wrote next to a photo in which he appeared holding a banner that read:" Respect female existence or wait for our resistance. "

In a few hours it exceeded a million and a half

likes.

Even so, she prefers not to define herself as an activist, simply, she says, defends the causes that she considers unjust and dreams of a better world.

And with more reason now, with a baby on the way.

Source: elparis

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