Emily Ratajkowski has been very busy lately. After walking the runways during fashion month, she dropped a new Inamorata collection, announced she’ll be releasing her very own podcast on November 1, and had romance rumors swirl with Brad Pitt before she was caught kissing a new mystery man.
In September, Ratajkowski filed for divorce from her husband and the father of her 1-year-old son Sylvester, film producer Sebastian Bear-McClard. It followed news that broke this summer that the pair were splitting after four years of marriage, as rumors circulated that Bear-McClard was allegedly cheating on the model.
At the time, a Page Six source told the publication, “He cheated. He’s a serial cheater. It’s gross. He’s a dog.” After Ratajkowski began liking fan’s tweets on the subject (such as “Can’t believe that little bitch cheated on emrata”), many believed her action as a subtle confirmation of the tweet. Ever since, Ratajkowski seems to be moving on and living her best life. In a new interview with Harper’s Bazaar, the My Body author shared what life has been like newly single.
“I can tell you that I have never been single before,” she told the outlet. “I feel all the emotions. I feel anger, sadness. I feel excitement. I feel joy. I feel levity. Every day is different. The only good thing I know is that I’m feeling all those things, which is nice because it makes me believe that I’ll be okay.”
As for any new men in her life, Ratajkowski confirms, “I have gone on dates.” Though the model admitted she hasn’t been on any dating apps yet, but said, “give me time.” When speaking to the publication, the Inamorata founder explained that she didn’t necessarily have a “type,” and is keeping an open mind.
Ratajkowski recalled what it was like to be in back-to-back relationships from a young age, revealing that boyfriends gave her a sense of protection from the predatory men in the modeling industry. She explained that dating wasn’t particularly enjoyable for her, since she was too focused on being liked rather than deciphering what she liked about a potential partner.
“To use the TikTok phrase, I was a bit of a ‘pick-me girl’ in the sense that I wasn’t very good at deciding what I liked,” she said. “I really wanted to be chosen. It was hard for me to go on a date with someone and think about how much I did or didn’t like them. I would have been thinking about how they were perceiving me, what it meant, what they wanted from me, what it meant about my self-worth. I don’t have that anymore. So now it’s really fun to go to dinner with someone and be like, ‘Cool. I really enjoyed these parts of them. I really didn’t like these other parts.’”
Enjoying the single life, taking it slow, spending time with her friends and her son, Ratajkowski has her priorities straight. “I’ve never had such clear priorities before in my life,” she said. “Number one is Sly, and that’s that.” Motherhood, she says, has forced her to hold herself to a new standard. “It’s made me re-evaluate what’s important to me, like, what do I want to teach my son?”
