Before Emily Ratajkowski was seducing Ben Affleck in Gone Girl, she was the topless woman at the centre of the controversial music video for Robin Thicke's controversial 2013 song, Blurred Lines.
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But, she would rather you didn't bring that up.
In an interview with InStyle UK, Ratajkowski, 24, has said she is sick of talking about her involvement in the video (which critics argued reinforced rape myths), adding that she was unhappy with it from the start.
"I wasn't into the idea at all at first," the model and actress said. "I think I came off as a bit annoyed in the video."
After finding mainstream success in films like Gone Girl and the upcoming We Are Your Friends (in which she stars opposite Zac Efron), Ratajkowski told the publication that Blurred Lines was following her around like a bad, misogynistic smell.
"Now, it's the bane of my existence," she said.
"When anyone comes up to me about Blurred Lines, I'm like, are we seriously talking about a video from three years ago?"
Ratajkowski, whose mother is an academic and father is an art teacher, was signed to Ford models at age 14.
Although she enrolled at the University of California in 2009, Ratajkowski left after a year to pursue modelling full-time, appearing multiple times in Los Angeles-based erotica and fine arts magazine Treats!.
Ratajkowski has said that her parents' liberal-mindedness and her early exposure to nude art has helped her to feel comfortable performing sans clothes.
"I'm not worried about nudity," she told the Telegraph in 2013, after Blurred Lines' release.
"But I'd rather play a complex character who has a love scene than a stupid girl who's just a girl next door."
