Emily Ratajkowski claims she never wanted to be famous

Emily Ratajkowski insists she never wanted to be famous.

The 32-year-old model, actress and author rose to fame after posing topless in Robin Thicke’s music video for his 2013 hit “Blurred Lines.” She has now explained that she only started modeling to save money for her creative ambitions.

She told Glamour UK: “I didn’t want to be famous. I had no plans. I wasn’t thinking about a career, I was thinking about saving money.”

“But the money I saved was enough to do what I really wanted to do, which was basically make things.

“I saw my parents, they’re both creative, but they had day jobs, so that’s how I imagined life.”

Before she became famous, the “Gone Girl” actress studied art at UCLA for a year, but then dropped out to devote herself full-time to modeling, doing mostly lingerie, catalog and swimwear shoots.

Emily also spoke to Glamour about wanting to keep the public informed about her private life because it means she can address “clear facts” about her behavior.

Since filing for divorce in September 2022 from the father of her two-year-old son Sylvester – her husband of four years, film producer Sebastian Bear-McClard, 36, who is alleged to have cheated on her and is currently being accused of sexual abuse by several women – Emily has been in the spotlight for dating a number of famous faces.

She was with comedian Pete Davidson (30), was photographed by paparazzi kissing Harry Styles (29) in a parking lot in Tokyo and most recently she smooched with French actor and comedian Stéphane Bak (27) in Paris.

Emily said: “What’s killing me lately is that I kind of want people to know what’s going on in my personal life.

“I just want to make one thing clear: If you’re a single mother in a custody battle and you’re dating someone, it doesn’t make a good impression.

“The most important thing for my child is that he is safe and that we are together. I would never risk that.”

“So I don’t know how I could think that it would appeal to me in any way – other than how I feel about it. In a very pragmatic way, if you know anything about the court system, if you know anything about divorce, then you know that there is a lot of sexism in there and embedded in that system. And the most important thing to me is my child.

“So let’s just let this idea rest. It’s hard on relationships and it’s hard on me personally.”