I’ve been working on a collection of essays for the past year and couldn’t be more thrilled that @nymag has published “Buying Myself Back”. This is an extremely personal piece about image, power and consent. Thank you to the entire New York magazine team for this opportunity https://t.co/pfJDl4kgZN
— Emily Ratajkowski (@emrata) September 15, 2020
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Emily wrote an essay for The Cut on reclaiming her own image and how photographer Jonathan Leder assulted her on a shoot and is still using the pictures for profit without her consent
At the beginning of her carrer her agent arranged a lingerie shoot with Jonathan Leder
the pictures were only agreed to get used in one specific magazine
at the shoot he gave her a lot of wine (she was 20 at the time) and suggested nude photos
after the makeup person left he gave her even more wine and assulted her
she tried to forget the incident until years later, after she got more famous, he released a whole book of these pictures
her lawyer tried to stop the release
Emily and her agent don't have recipes anymore, but they are both sure that Emily did not sign a model release for the shoot
Jonathan Leder did produce a signed release form. Emily is sure it is forged
I felt my frustration grow. I knew I had never signed anything; I had never agreed to anything. No one had asked me.
Emily did not have the financial resources to keep the case going. Leder comes from money.
Leder released two more books about her and also held an exhibition in a Lower East Side gallery
The Cut's fact checker reached out to Ledger for a comment:
“You do know who we are talking about right? This is the girl that was naked in Treats! magazine, and bounced around naked in the Robin Thicke video at that time. You really want someone to believe she was a victim?”
she also talks about more cases of artists using her image for profit and getting sued over posting a pap pic of herself on her IG
it's a good essay!
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September 16 2020, 00:19:27 UTC 4 months ago
September 16 2020, 00:19:34 UTC 4 months ago Edited: September 16 2020, 00:19:54 UTC
Fuck this guy for this quote alone.
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This situation reminds of a quote from My dark Vanessa where the victim/narrator says "looking like a Lolita and knowing exactly what I wanted, what I was. I wonder how much victimhood they'd be willing to grant a girl like me."
September 16 2020, 00:21:27 UTC 4 months ago
Models need so much more protection
September 16 2020, 00:22:00 UTC 4 months ago
he might as well have just said "yeah i did it and what about it?? shes a whore."
d*e challenge.
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She gave a good performance though.
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So I had the one drink he had the one and kept pushing me the whole time to drink more saying he’d buy me more drinks while he himself wasn’t drinking more. At the end of the night he made moves on me and it totally grossed me out that he knew what he was doing and knowing I had only had one drink and my inhibitions were not lowered he still felt entitled to my body. I mean he shouldn’t make any moves at all on me but he was like “fuck it I paid she needs to pay me back” kind of mentality.
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It’s a great essay. Ledger and her ex boyfriend can both rot for what they did.
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Edit: I just looked up Richard Prince. Goddamn that guy is creepy as shit. That whole article is filled with really predatory creepy ass men. Poor Emily.
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Edit: oops. Posted in the wrong reply. Oh well. Too lazy to move it.
September 16 2020, 16:55:12 UTC 4 months ago
It's so frustrating to see women, especially women who claim to be feminists, get up in arms about someone who's obviously beautiful talk about the experience of being beautiful. Once again, women can't acknowledge something about themselves that we all know without being ~stuck up~ or can't call out the objectification they experience just because they also get some payoff being pretty/thin.
The world pits women against each other and puts so much value on our looks, I think there is a certain bitterness(?) toward really beautiful women sometimes. Internalized misogyny takes the frustration that should be directed at the patriarchy and aims it at the women who seem to satisfy the patriarchy's requirements & reap the benefits instead.
idk it's not 'oh no, being beautiful is the hardest thing, poor supermodels,' but to ignore the negatives of their experiences is to miss the full picture of how women of all kinds are fucked over by misogyny.
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I hope leder lives a miserable life.
And, like, all of the other men in the story get a taste of how gross they are.
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