Overview
- Ratajkowski published a personal essay for The Cut on Friday, June 12, accompanied by a New York Magazine photoshoot in which she posed topless while mimicking breastfeeding with a lifelike doll.
- She wrote that intimacy with then‑husband Sebastian Bear‑McClard ended about six months after their son Sylvester was born in March 2021 and that the couple separated less than a year later.
- The essay says she pursued deliberate casual sex after the split, writing that she “decided to f*** my way into a new kind of woman” as a way to remake her identity.
- Ratajkowski describes a period of compulsive dating in New York, cataloging a string of unsuitable suitors, rejecting the label “divorced single mom,” and framing leaving the marriage as an act of agency.
- Coverage recalls that Ratajkowski filed for divorce in September 2022, that the divorce was reported finalized in 2025, and that Bear‑McClard was accused in a 2023 Variety exposé of misconduct with teenage girls, allegations he has not publicly addressed.