Emily Ratajkowski stopped having sex with ex-husband Sebastian Bear-McClard six months after their son Sylvester was born.
The 35-year-old model made the candid confession in a new essay for Cut magazine, which included a photoshoot in which she was seen breastfeeding a doll.
After welcoming her son in March 2021, Ratajkowski recalled experiencing “an intense transition to a new reality of a baby crying over aching breasts.”
She said her “marriage fell apart” in a period that “felt instantaneous and excruciatingly slow.”
“Six months after my son was born, my husband and I stopped having sex,” Ratajkowski wrote. “We broke up after less than a year.”
Page Six exclusively revealed that Ratajkowski separated from Bear-McClard, 45, in July 2022 after four and a half years of marriage.
Sources say the filmmaker allegedly cheated on Ratajkowski.
“He’s a serial cheater,” the source said. “That’s terrible. He’s a dog.”
Ratajkowski filed for divorce from her ex-husband in September 2022.
The following year, Bear-McClard was accused of sexual misconduct and inappropriate behavior with teenage girls in an explosive exposé in Variety magazine. He did not mention the allegations.
Ratajkowski, who finalized her divorce from Bear-McClard last summer, told the Cut that people looked at her in a “condescending way” after the divorce.
“They said, ‘I’m sorry, Emily,’ and their brows furrowed and their faces showed pity,” she explained. “I couldn’t bear to see how pathetic I was in their eyes. They saw me as someone who was unnecessary, someone who had been left behind.”
Ratajkowski said it was “important” to her to “avoid being a single mother” because as a child she considered the term an “insult.”
“Having a child with the wrong man was the quickest way to ruin your life as a woman. It meant no freedom, no choice, no emergency exit,” she said. “All your baggage and no security.”
However, Ratajkowski quickly learned to accept being a single mother and embarked on a “maniacal” love life, boasting that she was “determined to meet a new type of woman.”
As men came and went, Ratajkowski realized that her single life was no different than her life before marriage.
“Before our separation, I had never had a one-night stand. I had never slept with someone the day we met. In fact, I had only slept with eight people. Four of them were my live-in boyfriends, and one of them was my male best friend from high school,” she explained.
“I didn’t fuck someone I wasn’t sure would like me because I wanted to be important.”
She cited “a uniquely confused man from hell” whom she dated in New York, including a Brooklyn DJ who told her over dinner that incest ran in his family.
“But he was an anomaly,” she said of DJ. “There was a vegan graffiti artist with perfect posture, a chef who thought he might have chlamydia, a Spanish Gen Zer who couldn’t stop sending me nudes, the billionaire son of a questionable politician who was heavily self-medicating, a few Italians, and of course another DJ.”
“The list goes on, but for legal reasons it will not remain on the list,” Ratajkowski added.
The most serious situation for the actress was with a man she described as a “millennial elder” who told her he thought he was in love with her three weeks after they met, and “a familiar flicker of insecurity flashed in my chest.”
Ratajkowski explained that she didn’t like that the “elderly millennial” called her a “slut” to lure her into sex, and eventually dumped him, saying “dirty talk isn’t for me.”
Ratajkowski likened her post-divorce behavior to “supervillains” like Poison Ivy and Catwoman, admitting that she acted “just as misguided and vulnerable as I did in my 20s when I was playing the good girl.”
She also said she was “too preoccupied” with loving and caring for her son and “couldn’t get off sex,” which led to her decision to end their relationship for good.
