{"id":444574,"date":"2026-06-22T09:42:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T07:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ma-grande-taille.com\/?p=444574"},"modified":"2026-06-22T09:42:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T07:42:45","slug":"mere-celibataire-divorce-mannequin-emily-ratajkowski-explique-pourquoi-etiquette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ma-grande-taille.com\/en\/people\/single-mother-divorced-model-emily-ratajkowski-explains-why-shes-so-etiquette-free-444574","title":{"rendered":"A single mother after her divorce, model Emily Ratajkowski explains why she rejects this label."},"content":{"rendered":"

American model, actress, and author Emily Ratajkowski refuses to be defined by a single label. In a personal essay published on The Cut<\/a> , she reflected on her experience as a single mother after her divorce\u2014and on her rejection of the label "divorced single mother," which she considers "reductive."<\/p>\n

Rejecting a reductive label<\/h2>\n

In this introspective piece, Emily Ratajkowski recounts the collapse of her marriage to producer Sebastian Bear-McClard, which occurred approximately six months after the birth of their son, Sly, now 5 years old. Married in 2018, separated in 2022, the couple finalized their divorce in 2025. She describes the transition to motherhood as "a brutal shift into a new reality," during a period that felt "both fleeting and endless."<\/p>\n

At the heart of her argument is her discomfort with the term "divorced single mother." She explains that she long dreaded this situation before facing it much earlier than most women. "I had experienced the failure of a marriage when I was barely over 30,"<\/em> she writes, refusing to be pigeonholed into a category she considers "unfair."<\/p>\n

A declared "villain era"<\/h2>\n

To cope with this new life, particularly by reconnecting with women, Emily Ratajkowski says she took on a role: that of a "supervillain," a "woman who needs nothing from men." She compares herself to fictional characters like Poison Ivy or Catwoman, and confides that living this period in New York gave her the feeling of "a bohemian and liberated existence." "It was my supervillain origin story,"<\/em> she summarizes. <\/p>\n

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