I think that there's a reality to the fact that women are treated a certain way based on the way they look. My mother was aware of that and in her childhood, it had been discouraged for her to capitalize on her looks and certainly her sex feel. And I don't think she wanted that for me. But it also meant that we probably placed a lot of import and value in the way that modeling could make me feel about how I looked. You did seriously consider acting. It just was sort of a thing that I came towards.
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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