Starring in Robin Thicke‘s “Blurred Traces” video in 2013 catapulted her to a brand new stage of fame. Which, naturally, was a blended bag as debate ensued (principally on-line) as to whether or not the video was misogynistic, and Ratajkowski grew to become inextricably linked each to her unclothed efficiency and the controversy.
She defended the video then, saying that she had fun making it and felt completely secure on set “being within the firm of many ladies I trusted and favored.”
It wasn’t till Ratajkowski discovered that Thicke was anticipating a child with his fiancée April Love Geary and went to his Instagram, solely to seek out out she gave the impression to be blocked, that it clicked into place: She hadn’t completed something to offend, however on the set of “Blurred Traces,” she writes, “He did one thing he wasn’t alleged to do.” She alleges that the singer was “slightly drunk” on set and, whereas she was dancing “as ridiculously as attainable,” she felt chilly fingers cupping her naked breasts from behind. Thicke “smiled a goofy grin and stumbled backward, his eyes hid behind his sun shades,” she writes.
There was a clumsy pause and Diane Martel, the director, requested if she was OK, and he or she recollects nodding, and possibly even smiling to insist she was alright. However in actuality she was shocked and did not actually know what to do. She did not react “like I ought to have,” she recollects, nor did any of the opposite women on set. They simply saved taking pictures.
A rep for Thicke didn’t return requests for remark when this anecdote from the guide made information earlier than its launch. Martel backed up Ratajkowski’s account of being groped to the Sunday Instances within the U.Ok. However Ratajkowski clarified to Vainness Honest in October that she wasn’t coming ahead, so to talk.
“It has been slightly unusual to have even people who find themselves well-meaning come as much as me and say, ‘I am so glad you spoke out about Robin Thicke,'” she stated. “And it is like, properly, no, I did not communicate out. And that is under no circumstances the message behind this. It wasn’t about ‘I would like to inform my story of sexual assault’ as a result of that is simply not even how I see it.”
She added, “The half that not lots of people are specializing in is that I actually was having fun with myself…Additionally this different factor occurred and that claims one thing concerning the world we reside in. Each issues exist on the identical time.”
