Emily Ratajkowski is quite “enjoying” casual dating but says paparazzi are making it difficult for her.
Speaking on her High Low podcast, the model and author said she feels her fame has “screwed up” the natural process of getting to know the guys she goes on dates with.
“I’ve been trying to casually date and not get cuffed up, and it’s been hard to do that and be kind of mindful of the people that I’m seeing,” Ratajkowski, 31, told listeners.
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“Any time I go on another date, everybody knows, so the other guys I’m dating see it.
“It has been kind of difficult because, of course, they’re like, ‘Didn’t talk to her last night,’ and then there’s pictures of me out to dinner with someone else. It sucks.”
Since filing for divorce from ex-husband Sebastian Bear-McClard last year, Ratajkowski has been photographed with Pete Davidson, DJ Orazio Rispo, Jack Greer and Eric André.
The model said she also doesn’t necessarily always want to know when the men she’s going out with are out with other people, too.
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Because of this, Ratajkowski said the experience has been “tricky to navigate,” and admitted it causes her “so much anxiety.”
She said it also often ends up in her feeling “embarrassed” and “apologising.”
Ratajkowski and Bear-McClard share a son, Sylvester Apollo Bear, who they welcomed in March 2021.
However, the couple went their separate ways last year after allegations of “serial cheating”.
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Soon after, Ratajkowski gave an interview with Harper’s Bazaar in which she said she had “never been single before”.
“I feel anger, sadness. I feel excitement. I feel joy. I feel levity. Every day is different,” she told the publication.
“The only good thing I know is that I’m feeling all those things, which is nice because it makes me believe that I’ll be OK.”
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