"Nekada sam pokazivala ovu sliku da bih dokazala da je sve na meni prirodno. Danas sam tužna što uopće postoji. Bila sam samo dijete i voljela bih da me tada netko ohrabrio da budem više od svog tijela. Bez obzira na to, osjećam se osnaženo svojom seksualnošću i onime što pokazujem na Instagramu. Srećom, otkrila sam dijelove sebe koji su važniji od seksualnosti. Ako sad ovo čita neka 14-godišnja djevojčica, nek se ne zamara time. Čitaj puno knjiga i znaj da je ono što vidiš na Instagramu samo dio lijepo složenih ljudskih bića", napisala je.

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I used to like showing people this photo of me at 14 to prove that my body is natural. Now I’m a little sad it exists at all. I was just a kid in this picture and I wish the world had encouraged my 14-year-old self to be more than just my body. All of that said, I do still feel like I’ve been empowered through my body and my sexuality via modeling and platforms like Instagram. Luckily I have discovered the parts of me that are so much more important than “sexiness”, but if you’re a 14-year-old girl reading this, don’t worry about any of that for now. Read lots of books and know that what you see on Instagram is just a very small fraction of complete and beautifully complex human beings.

A post shared by Emily Ratajkowski (@emrata) on Jan 4, 2020 at 11:38am PST