Model Emily Ratajkowski has mirrored on her “struggle” to leave her dishonest ex-husband, and the way “gaslighting” took its toll on her.
Speaking on the Going Mental With Eileen Kelly podcast, the mannequin and mom, 31, opened up for the primary time about her tense cut up from her husband of virtually 5 years, Sebastian Bear-McClard.
“I didn’t have the courage to leave for a long time. I was really, really unhappy,” Ratajkowski mentioned. “I was, like, 100 pounds [45kg] and I had just had a baby. I got really skinny ’cause I was not OK.”
Listen to the interview above.
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To cope, the mannequin mentioned she “tried everything” to assist her by way of their relationship.
“I tried to take antidepressants. I was sure that something was wrong with me,” she mentioned. “I think so much of what I learned coming out of that relationship is to trust your instincts. Gaslighting is a real thing.”
There was so much about her cut up with Bear-McClard that legally, Ratajkowski could not open up about, because the pair are nonetheless going by way of divorce proceedings.
The pair married in 2018, and cut up simply final yr, after the mannequin supposedly found her husband had been dishonest on her. Ratajkowski refused to touch upon that hearsay.
The mannequin additionally mentioned she needs to proceed defending her baby, Sylvester, aged two.
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Ratajkowski did observe that the very fact she had simply had a child made it tougher for her to leave her marriage.
“I had just had a child, so I really wanted to have that family, so it was especially hard for me to totally walk away,” she mentioned.
“I had lines… there were just certain things that I was just [totally against]. I’ve always been this way. I’m a very on-and-off person. I will literally sit with people that I love – friends, family, whatever – for so long and then if there’s a line that’s crossed I’m like, ‘OK! That was it.'”
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She added, “For me, it was so clear and then it just became clearer and clearer and clearer and clearer, which was good, which was clarifying.”
While the mannequin didn’t handle whether or not or not she had been cheated on, she did ship a message to those that have been cheated on by their companions.
“Duh, men are trash, ladies,” she mentioned. “It doesn’t matter who you are or how perfect you are.”
Ratajkowski’s interview comes after a small interval of relationship. Over the previous few months, the mannequin has been linked to actor Brad Pitt, Pete Davidson and comic Eric André.
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