Emily Ratajkowski feels ‘very lucky’ to be pregnant

From Harper’s BAZAAR

Emily Ratajkowski says she feels “very lucky” to be pregnant with her first child.

The model-turned-actress is expecting her first child with husband Sebastian Bear-McClard, whom she married in an intimate ceremony in New York in 2018.

Ratajkowski admired that even though she “never really understood” what it was like to build a family before she got pregnant, she is so excited to expand her family with her husband.

“I never understood what it was like to have a family, and raising a family is an amazing, eye-opening experience and I feel very lucky,” she said in a video promoting her new Kérastase Genesis range.

“I don’t know what motherhood will be like, of course, because it’s the first time and everyone has such different experiences and perspectives. So the best thing to do is trust the process and take each day at a time and then see where this journey takes me.”

Ratajowski also expressed a feeling that many mothers-to-be are likely to experience right now in the midst of the global pandemic: loneliness.

“My husband likes to say ‘we’re pregnant.’ I tell her that while the sentiment is sweet, it’s not entirely true. I’m sorry that his entire family’s DNA is in me, but that my DNA is not in him. “It just seems unfair,” I say, and we both laugh. It’s kind of a joke, but there’s truth behind it,” she said.

“Pregnancy is an innate loneliness; it is something a woman does on her own, inside her body, regardless of her circumstances. Despite having a loving partner and many female friends willing to share the gritty details of their pregnancies, I am ultimately alone with my body in this experience.”

She went on to explain how her husband cannot feel the pain she felt throughout her pregnancy journey.

“There’s no one who feels it with me – the sharp muscle pains in my lower abdomen that come out of nowhere while I’m watching a movie, or the painful heaviness of my breasts that now greet me first thing every morning. My husband had no physical symptoms with ‘our’ pregnancy – another reminder of how different a woman’s and a man’s life experience can be.”

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