‘Emily Ratajkowski is the female Pete Davidson’, one TikTok commenter declared this week. The 31-year-old model and actor has been spotted locking lips with Harry Styles, the latest in a string of high-profile flings since her July 2022 divorce from Sebastian Bear-McClard. And frankly? We’re obsessed. Her dating roster is what dreams are made of.
To catch you up on the latest, Emily Ratajkowski and Harry Styles were caught on camera in the streets of Tokyo, dancing and smooching up against a silver van during a night out in Japan. Styles had recently performed back-to-back concerts at the Ariaka Arena as part of his, wait for it, Love on Tour tour – need we point out the irony?
Of course, pictures and videos of the rendezvous have gone absolutely wild on social media, everyone and their dog reacting in either delight or despair at the potential coupling. On Google Trends, search terms like 'Harry Styles Emily Ratajkowski kissing video' are major breakouts.
One minor issue does stand between them and their happily ever after though: Emily appears to be friend with Harry’s most recent ex, esteemed director Olivia Wilde. In fact, Olivia and Emily even went to a Harry Styles concert TOGETHER just eight months ago – they were also pictured hanging out at the Vanity Fair Oscars Party two weeks ago.
That being said, Olivia appears to be living her best life on social media right now and was recently photographed hugging ex Jason Sudeikis at a football game for their children together, so there’s nothing to suggest she even remotely cares about Harry and EmRata’s romance – she too knows the joy of a fling post long-term relationship breakdown, and that’s exactly what Emily appears to be committed to right now, simply having fun.
Since September 2022, Emily has been spotted on dates with the following men in chronological order: Brad Pitt (September), Orazio Rispo (October), Pete Davidson (November), Jack Greer (December), Eric Andre (January-February), Harry Styles (March). Pete Davidson and Eric Andre were much more notable flings, Andre even making their romance Instagram official on Valentine’s Day this year. Alas, they weren’t to last – and while some stoop to the very unsurprising low of slut-shaming Emily for this series of celebrity flings, we’ll be arguing the exact opposite: Emily is living the life one can only dream of post-divorce.
Be them casual flings or short attempts at long-term love, after a four-year marriage that brutally ended in Sebastian allegedly cheating multiple times, Emily deserves to freely explore her newfound freedom and sexual agency without judgement.
‘I feel all the emotions,’ Ratajkowski told US Weekly in October in regard to her divorce. ‘I feel anger, sadness. I feel excitement. I feel joy. I feel levity. Every day is different. 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 okay.’
She’s certainly forged ahead with a new path to legitimise her brand outside of modelling since her divorce, launching podcast High Low with EmRata in partnership with Sony Music Entertainment where she has thoughtful conversations about politics, feminism, sex, and philosophy with celebrity guests.
I've been trying to casually date and not get booed up, and it's been hard.
Emily RATAJKOWSKI
‘I've been trying to casually date and not get booed up, not get cuffed up and it's been hard to do that and be kind of mindful of the people that I'm seeing, because I don't necessarily want to know when they're going on another date,’ she said on the Jan. 26 episode of High Low With Em Rata. ‘It's been really hard, because basically, any time I go on another date, everybody knows, so the other guys I'm dating see it, and it has been kind of difficult.’
One of the recent guests on High Low with Em Rata was internet sensation and actor Julia Fox, who too celebrated Emily’s string of flings in the comment section of a video on TikTok that chronicled her last six months of dating.
And that’s all one could hope for following the breakdown of such an intense relationship, to feel supported and free to explore all kinds of connections and carefree fun when it comes to dating. Rather than demonising Emily for doing what men do every single time they end a relationship, we should be celebrating her ability to dive back into dating headfirst and enjoy herself. Smooch away Emily, we want a Harry Styles album all about us too.