A comedian has been asked to stop mimicking Emily Ratajkowksi photos by Emily Ratajkowksi.
Model and actress Ratajkowski, 33, rose to fame by playing a part on popular Nickelodeon series iCarly.
Since then she’s had major movie roles in Gone Girl and We Are Your Friends.
You may know her from her appearance in films, or if you don’t, likely from Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams’ music video for ‘Blurred Lines.’
And while the I Feel Pretty star may be garnering more fame for her racy Instagram photos, which have been copied by a comedian, she has now revealed the secret behind her incredible, seemingly rounded figure.
Others find the recreations hilarious, but it seems to have rattled Ratajkowski’s cage, and she’s requested the content creator stop.
An Australian comedian, Celeste Barber, posted Ratajkowski alongside other recreations of celebrity Insta posts.
The self proclaimed ‘queen of the internet’ has taken aim at big names with her signature brand of humour, including Kylie Jenner, Kim Kardashian, Gwyneth Paltrow and Bella Hadid.
Last year, Barber posted a bikini shot in a Ratajkowski pose with the caption: ‘We are sick of you objectifying our bodies!’! Also, here’s my a**.”
Ratajkowski, however, doesn’t seem to be a big fan of the satire.
”I don’t think Emily is a fan,” Barber said on Fitzy and Wippa (via Yahoo). She’s allowed to not love it, that’s okay. But she blocked me.”
Ratajkowski has previously spoken about how her looks have held her back professionally.
“I’ve gone in for roles and producers tell me I’m too pretty to play a role,” she told USA Today. It’s so crazy, so frustrating. They’ve seen too many pictures of you being a model, so you can’t get a part. It’s an industry and people see what people have seen before. “That takes a lot for someone to risk you.”
This was also covered in her book, ‘My Body.’
Ratajkowski wrote, per the New York Post, “It had never occurred to me that the women who gained their power from beauty were dependent upon the men whose desire gave them that power in the first place.”
“Those men were the ones in control, not the women the world fawned over.”
On her High Low with EmRata podcast, Ratajkowski spoke about the situation with Barber.
“This whole drama with Celeste has been blown out of proportion. In general, I find her to be really funny. But, [the] message I was trying to send to her was, ‘I just don’t want you to do this to me anymore,’” she explained.
“[I want] to be able to do my thing, whether that be writing about my terrifying experiences in an industry that doesn’t protect women and young girls and femme-presenting people while also having a bathing suit line.”
She added: “I was like, I’m not giving her my consent for this joke anymore. It just landed at a specific time for me.”
Ratajkowski explained why she objected, concluding: “We really love to pick on female influencers like they are considered the trash, lamest, most cringe, most embarrassing people on the planet.
“I fundamentally find that to be sexist. Yeah, no s*** women want to be influencers – it’s one of the ways that women have learned to be successful and make money. They’re hustling.”
Barber has responded to the drama.
She told Marie Claire: “I like running my mouth off. I do it a lot. I’m quick-witted – it’s one of my favorite things about me.
“I don’t like that I feel I can’t do that as much, and yeah I do feel like I censor myself sometimes. But then other times I don’t give a f*** and I operate from a place of already being canceled.
“I mean good luck to them. You can’t win. They hate what you do one day, then you’re the greatest thing in the world the next day.”