Young girls in particular suffering worse and worse mental health linked to online body image. The best thing we can do is teach women and try to sort of change the overall system rather than say to our daughters who of course are going to want to know what it feels like to be considered hot. I don't think that we should be shaming the women who want to experience that or experiment with that because there is power to be gained from it monetarily.
Samira Ahmed speaks to model and actress Emily Ratajkowski. Together they discuss her rise to fame after appearing in the music video for the controversial song ‘Blurred Lines’, as well as the fraught relationship between feminism, capitalism, and exploitation. The recording for this episode took place in September 2021.
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