Emily Ratajkowski makes bold admission about returning to dating as single mother

Emily Ratajkowski has something of a reputation when it comes to not mincing her words online and her latest admission has left a lot of people surprised.

We're living in an era of celebrities perhaps telling us a little too much about their sex lives and what goes on behind the scenes, with even the great Madonna joining in recently by sharing the best sex she's ever had.

While it's common to get a glimpse into a celebrity's life when they appear on a podcast or do an interview after a cocktail or two, it was still a bit surprising to see Ratajkowski go into such intimate detail about her dating life, having split from her husband back in 2022.

She gave birth to her son in 2021 and she's now opened up about going back into the world of dating, which still poses its challenges for a woman as beautiful as the American model and actress.

In a first person piece for The Cut, the 35-year-old who was born in London went into a lot of detail about what it's like to date again as a single mother living in New York, while also sharing the exact number of people she had slept with before taking on the new approach of what she describes as 'compulsive dating'.

The model has shared her mixed experience with dating as a single mother (Taylor Hill/FilmMagic)

Ratajkowski wrote: "Before my separation, I’d never had a one-night stand. I’d never slept with someone the same day I met them. In fact, I’d only slept with eight people: four of whom had been live-in boyfriends, and one of whom was my male best friend in high school (we had sex once, and he shuddered and ejaculated the second he entered me). I didn’t f**k anyone I wasn’t pretty sure would fall in love with me, because I wanted to be precious."

Although she went on to discuss how one relationship with a man she refers to as the Elder Millenial went wrong, it seems to have been a positive experience for the model and she was able to take away two crucial pieces of information.

She wrote: "In these months of dating post-separation, I learned two things. The first was that many men are turned on by motherhood. At a party just a month after my separation, a sister to several famous single moms consoled me immediately with 'Men don’t care, by the way, about, like, the you-having-a-kid thing.' I exhaled.

She split from her husband shortly after they had their child together (Jean Catuffe/GC Images)

"At the time, her comment felt monumental, like she was addressing the exact thing no one wanted to say but that I’d been so scared of: that, as a single mother, I was unlovable, used up and discarded. I soon came to find out that it was quite the opposite of 'They don’t care.' In fact, they liked it."

Her second eureka moment was simpler, as she suggested: "The second thing was simple wisdom anyone’s grandmother could probably bestow. The more I seemed not to need a man, the more desperately he needed me."

Naturally, being as attractive as the model is helps when it comes to dating but that's still sound advice to take on if you're a single mother looking for love.