I would never consider Emily Ratajkowski one of my favorite celebrities in the world or anything, but I enjoy covering her. She is, at this point, very much the Cool Girl. She’s pretty but not “threatening,” hot but accessible, a “guy’s girl” without alienating women. Is she the brightest bulb? Not really, but she’s not a dumb bunny either. She self-identifies as feminist, she talks openly about her sort of hippie, beachy, bohemian lifestyle and outlook, and she’s really not that bad. Anyway, Emily chatted with NY Magazine about nudity and the differences between how Americans react to female nudity versus the way Europeans react.
We already know that nudity is no big whoop for model turned actress Emily Ratajkowski. It was embraced in her home growing up and she didn’t get all that hoopla following her appearance in Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” video. So when we saw the Gone Girl star at last night’s Harper’s Bazaar event, we had to ask: How can we, the American public, be as cool and body-confident as she is?
“Go to Europe. Travel. If you spend any time there you notice it right away — their comfort level is different.” Ratajkowski continued: “You see more women being openly sexual like it’s not a big deal, without them having to be oversexualized. They are celebrated. You see it on the beaches, daughters with their mothers. It’s not a big deal to see your mom naked. It’s actually quite normal.”
But what makes us so dang uptight to begin with? “I don’t know if it’s about being frigid,” she said. “It’s more about the constant sexualizing [of] women without actually celebrating women. I think it’s more a misdirection of values and femininity rather than the country being frigid.”
Is this the most profound statement ever made? No. But I agree with her and I appreciate the fact that a young model/actress thinks in terms of how society objectifies and sexualizes women and girls and how that’s a “misdirection of values.” And yes, Europeans experience nudity (of all forms) in a completely different way than Americans. Nudity is normal there. People go topless on the beach, everyone gets naked at the spa, and there’s a ton of nudity in advertising, films, television and commercials.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.
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