Emily Ratajkowski revealed that she hopes to inspire other young, divorced women by writing about her own experiences.

The model married him Sebastian Bear-McClard in 2018 and welcomed a son, Bear, two, together before they split in July 2022. The 32-year-old tells the new issue of Vogue that she would like to banish the “stigma” surrounding her divorce.

I can’t believe there aren’t more books about first marriages that fail. There is quite a large literature on divorce, but it tends to focus on families that end after the children have grown up.“, she said.

And he continued:I believe that there are many women who divorce at a young age and there is a taboo, a stigma surrounding this issue».

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Emily Ratajkowski went on to explain that nowadays, women are better off financially and don’t have to stay in bad relationships.

Our world has changed so much because women make, if not the same salary, more money than their male counterparts. And then they also bear the burden of the emotional and physical responsibilities of working at home“, he said.

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Marriage isn’t always as fair as it used to be, or at least as it’s supposed to be. Not sure if it was ever a fair dealEmily Ratajkowski pointedly said.

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At another point in the interview, the famous model pointed out that she did not have the courage to leave her marriage for a long time. “I was really, really unhappy».

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She explained that the stress she felt from her unhappiness was manifesting in her body, saying: “I was about 100 pounds and had just given birth. I became very thin because I was not well. I tried taking anti-depressants. I was sure something was wrong with me. I think a lot of what I learned coming out of that relationship is to trust your gut.“, he added.

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