Emily Ratajkowski is one of the most famous names in the world of modeling with many front-page covers to her name. She has also had a good film career with Hollywood roles to her name. With an impressive $2 million home, we estimate her net worth to be around $8 million.
| Full Name | Emily O’Hara Ratajkowski |
| Date of Birth | June 7, 1991 |
| Place of Birth | London, UK |
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70m) |
| Net Worth | $8 Million |
Emily Ratajkowski Bio
Emily Ratajkowski (Emily O’Hara Ratajkowski) was born on June 7, 1991, in Westminster, London. She is the only child of Kathleen Anne Balgley and John David “J.D.” Ratajkowski. Her father paints and teaches art, and her mother has a Ph.D. and worked as an English lecturer.
Emily was raised in an affluent neighborhood in London’s West End before her family moved to San Diego at the age of 5. She grew up in the California town of Encinitas, which is near San Diego. She went to UCLA for a year before she quit to become a full-time model.
Her mother is Jewish, while her father was raised as a Roman Catholic. Ratajkowski has said that she thinks of herself as “Polish-Israeli” in terms of her race. She also has English, Irish, and German ancestry.
Ratajkowski played soccer, did ballet, and acted before she became a model. As a child and young teen, she was in a few plays at a local theater. This led to her getting a recurring role on the Nickelodeon series “iCarly” (2009-2010).
Emily Ratajkowski is a self-confessed feminist and has said that third-wave feminism and books like “The Beauty Myth and Promiscuities” by Naomi Wolf, had a profound effect on her.
Ratajkowski was ready to do nude work because she saw naked women in photography and art when she was young. This included her father’s work and the photography of Helmut Newton and Herb Ritts. She has said,
“We have a culture where men watch pornography but are offended by a classic naked portrait or photo, and I’ve never felt that way.”
Career
Emily Ratajkowski started her career at the young age of just 14, when she signed with Ford Models.
Emily began modeling for teen print catalogs when she was young. She was in catalogs for Kohls and Nordstrom, among others.
Emily went to UCLA for a short time in 2009, but she didn’t like the other students or the type of education there. It didn’t fit with her artistic goals. Emily Ratajkowski continued to model for different campaigns and editorials over the next few years, and she worked closely with photographer Tony Duran.
Emily says that she got her big break when he posed for the erotica magazine “treats!” In 2012, she was on the cover of an issue, which helped her get the attention of many powerful people.
Soon after, she got a lot of new opportunities, including ambassador jobs for brands like Carl’s Jr. and Nikon. She kept posing for photos both with and without clothes. But Emily Ratajkowski didn’t really start to get noticed until she was in the music video for Robin Thicke’s song “Blurred Lines.”
The part in the music video made her well-known, but it also made her a controversial figure. Emily was dancing without a top on in an explicit version of the video that came out, and many critics said that the video normalized the degradation of women.
Critics said the lyrics seemed to encourage rape, but others said the song was really about empowering women and giving them sexual freedom. Emily agreed with the second argument and said that the fact that people are talking about her nakedness shows that America is sexually repressed. In the same year, she was also in the music video for “Love Somebody” by Maroon 5.
After “Blurred Lines,” Emily Ratajkowski became a sex icon around the world. Several magazines called her one of the sexiest or hottest women in the world and was featured in the swimsuit issues of Sports Illustrated in 2014 and 2015
She walked her first professional catwalk for Marc Jacobs at New York Fashion Week in 2015. Since then, she has walked for Miu Miu at Paris Fashion Week and for Bottega Veneta, Dolce & Gabbana, and Versace at Milan Fashion Week.
During Super Bowl 50 in 2016, Ratajkowski was in a commercial for Buick. She is now the face of brands like DKNY, The Frye Company, Kerastase, Paco Rabanne, and DL1961.
Emily Ratajkowski started acting when she was a child in San Diego, but she didn’t get her big break until she got a recurring role on the Nickelodeon show “iCarly” (2009-2010).
In the 2014 movie “Gone Girl”, she played Ben Affleck’s character’s mistress. This was her first role in a full-length movie. Her other roles are in the movies “Entourage” (2015), “We Are Your Friends” (2015), “I Feel Pretty” (2018), and “Welcome Home” (2018), as well as the miniseries “The Spoils Before Dying” (2015) and the anthology series “Easy” (2016). As a spokesperson for Planned Parenthood, Ratajkowski speaks out for the health of women. She calls herself a feminist, and her views on how people show their sexuality have gotten her both praise and criticism.
She kept showing up on the covers of magazines like Cosmopolitan, and she also got a part in a “Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare” commercial. Then, in the movie Entourage, she played a version of herself that was made up.
She also started working on the miniseries “The Spoils Before Dying” that same year. She continued to be busy in 2015 by co-starring with Zac Effron in the musical drama film “We Are Your Friends”. This was her first lead role. Critics had mixed things to say about her acting, but they liked the way she danced. Ratajkowski was getting more and more famous as an actress, but she also had a successful modeling career going on at the same time. She was on the covers of magazines like Grazia, British GQ, InStyle, and many others.
Emily’s year kept getting better and better as she also hosted the MTV Video Music Awards in 2015. At New York Fashion Week, she walked the runway for Marc Jacobs for the first time. The next year, she went back to Paris Fashion Week as a model for Miu Miu. She was a guest judge on “Project Runway” in 2016. Over the next few years, she got more movie roles, and in 2018, she was in the movie “Welcome Home” with Aaron Paul.
Social Media
Emily Ratajkowski was an early adopter of social media as she saw the potential for the massive following that could be amassed here.
Since the early days she has been a frequent and reliable user of the platforms and often release personal information exclusively through these mediums.
Her Instagram account is followed by 29.6 million people and can be found by clicking here.
Her Twitter account is followed by 1.5 million people and can be found by clicking here.
Emily Ratajkowski Net Worth
Throughout her extensive career modeling career, she has made a large amount of money. With many front-page covers of some of the world’s most popular magazines including Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition, Grazia, British GQ and, InStyle it’s easy to see how she generates a significant amount of income.
Emily is also immensely popular on social media platforms and was one of the first models to fully embrace the potential of these great platforms. She currently has x followers on Instagram.
Combine this with her successful career in Hollywood with roles in 4 highly grossing movies and we would estimate her net worth to be in the region of $8 million.
Real Estate
Emily Ratajkowski bought a home in Echo Park, Los Angeles, in the same year she got married to Sebastian Bear-McClard. The 1,650-square-foot house, which was first listed for $1.595 million, cost her $2 million. Emily was willing to pay more than what the seller was asking for the house, which she bought with cash. The house has big windows, a brick fireplace, and skylights. On the 1.15-acre piece of land, there is also a guest cottage.
Personal Life
Emily Ratajkowski has had no compunction sharing the details of her personal life over the years. In December 2014, Us Weekly reported that she had started dating musician Jeff Magid although the couple broke up in earl 2018.
On February 23, 2018, Ratajkowski announced on Instagram that she had married Sebastian Bear-McClard in a New York courthouse wedding. Emily had been dating the actor and producer for just a few months before they were wed.
In October of 2020 Emily announced her pregnancy in a Vogue article in which she claimed that she and her husband did not want to announce the sex of their first child.
On March 8, 2021, Emily gave birth to a son named Sylvester.
The model has since divorced from her husband.