You were 21 when you appeared on the cover of an autistic erotic magazine Treats which led to your appearance in the 2013 Blurred Lines video. Robin Thicke saw the magazine and requested you and of course that video propelled you to kind of global fame. How do you look at that video now? I think it's really complicated. I think that it's the thing that brought me my career in many ways and there's just a truth to that.
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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