Emily Ratajkowski: “Having a Child With the Wrong Man Was the Fastest Way to Ruin Your Life as a Woman”

Model and author Emily Ratajkowski has sparked intense debate with a candid statement in a new essay for The Cut.

In the piece, Ratajkowski writes that “having a child with the wrong man was the fastest way to ruin your life as a woman. It meant having no freedom, no choices, no emergency exit. All baggage and no security.”

Ratajkowski, 35, reflects in the essay on her fears of single motherhood, which she said she held even before giving birth to her son, Sylvester, in 2021. She shares the child with her ex-husband, Sebastian Bear-McClard. The couple separated less than a year after their son’s birth.