Emily Ratajkowski showcased her phenomenal bikini body in a grey and white striped two-piece while taking her son, Sylvester, three, to visit her hometown.
In a new slideshow, uploaded to her Instagram on Thursday, the 33-year-old model shared various memories she made over the weekend in her swimsuit as she spent time with her parents, John David Ratajkowski and Kathleen Balgley, and little boy.
The best-selling author uploaded a sultry snap of herself baring plenty of skin as she sat in the passenger side of a car, before posing in front of Las Olas Restaurant.
After picking up Mexican food, she and her family seemingly brought the meal to the beach as she also included an image of her burrito in a takeout container there.
‘Home for a few days,’ the mother-of-one captioned her post, which also included a photo of her son standing in front of her childhood home.
Emily Ratajkowski showcased her phenomenal bikini body in a grey and white striped two-piece while taking her son, Sylvester, three, to visit her hometown
Ratajkowski, who resides in New York, appeared to be visiting some of her favorite local spots, including Leucadia Donut Shoppe, a family-run store, in Encinitas.
This comes after the bombshell recently shared a first look at her trip to San Diego to visit her father, a noted artist and former high school art teacher, and mom, a writer and English professor.
Over the weekend, she shared a video of her painting in her father’s studio with Sylvester.
‘OK so come to paint with me in my dad’s studio,’ she said in post. ‘So this is the studio my dad built at the house I grew up in.’
She continued: ‘And he built the studio, he’s an artist. He was actually my painting teacher in high school.’
As she panned around the room, she told her viewers exactly what they were seeing, pointing out some posters for art exhibitions her father has had in the past.
She also highlighted baby pictures of her, art projects from the past, as well as her dad’s paints and paintbrushes.
‘And it’s just a really magical, special place, she said.
In a new slideshow, uploaded to her Instagram on Thursday, the 33-year-old model shared various memories she made over the weekend in her swimsuit as she spent time with her parents, John David Ratajkowski and Kathleen Balgley, and little boy
The best-selling author uploaded a sultry snap of herself baring plenty of skin as she sat in the passenger side of a car, before posing in front of Las Olas Restaurant
Ratajkowski pictured from behind
‘Sly loves painting so much, so it’s really fun for them to do together,’ she said, adding, ‘He also just adores his grandpa.’
The video finished with Emily and Sly showing off their finished paintings.
She shared more mementos from her past in her Instagram Stories.
One image was side-by-side photos of the Gone Girl actress at age two and at age 5.
After picking up Mexican food, she and her family seemingly brought the meal to the beach as she also included an image of her burrito in a takeout container there
‘Home for a few days,’ the mother-of-one captioned her post, which also included a photo of her son standing in front of her childhood home
Ratajkowski, who resides in New York, appeared to be visiting some of her favorite local spots, including Leucadia Donut Shoppe, a family-run store, in Encinitas
In her book, My Body, Ratajkowski, who is close with both her parents, wrote about feeling ‘sucked into’ their ‘screaming matches’ as a kid.
The fights led her to believe that she was the ‘glue’ that kept them together.
‘I knew that my parents had been on again, off again for years before my mother became pregnant with me and they decided to get married,’ the model wrote. ‘I understood that even before I was born my existence was the essential glue of their relationship.’
She continued: ‘After every such explosion, which usually ended with one of them leaving, the other would turn to me to plead their case or to air their grievances. I’d listen, performing my role dutifully, feeling a queasiness that would stay with me for days.’
Elsewhere in her memoir, she wrote that ‘beauty was a way for’ her ‘to be special.’
This comes after the bombshell recently shared a first look at her trip to San Diego to visit her father, a noted artist and former high school art teacher, and mom, a writer and English professor
In her 2021 book, My Body, Ratajkowski, who is close with both her parents, wrote about feeling ‘sucked into’ their ‘screaming matches’ as a kid (seen last month)
‘When I was special, I felt my parents’ love for me the most,’ she confessed.
The earliest anecdote that Emily has about herself is one that her mother, Kathy, has shared about her birth.
The doctor who delivered her reportedly exclaimed over Emily’s beauty, and even brought his own children to the hospital the next day to see her.
‘You were such a beautiful baby,’ her mother would say.
When she would later hear her mother talk about how beautiful she herself had been when she was younger, Emily wrote, ‘I tried to gauge where my parents thought I belonged in the world of beauties.
‘It seemed important to them both, especially to my mother, that their daughter be perceived as beautiful,’ she wrote, adding that she would pray that God would make her ‘the most beautiful.’
Her prayers came true, and she first realized that men were attracted to her when she was just 12 — when her mother gushed about it.
‘I’ll never forget the look on his face as you walked past him!’ her mom would say. ‘He stopped dead in his tracks and his mouth fell open!’
Growing up, her parents were quite proud of her modeling career, with her father hanging one of her marketing materials with her measurements and photo in his classroom
At 13, Emily was told her outfit at a dance was ‘too sexy’ and got sent home. There were other awkward moments, including odd reactions from others that made it clear she was thought of in a sexual way.
‘I was a child, but somehow already an expert in detecting male desire, even if I didn’t completely understand what to make of it,’ she said.
When she was in middle school, an agent approached her about modeling.
Her parents were quite proud of her modeling career, with her father hanging one of her marketing materials with her measurements and photo in his classroom.
It seems that around that time, a lot of adults were taking note of her good looks — and she says a middle-school teacher even snapped her bra on one occasion.
Emily might have missed some of the attention of others had her mother not proudly pointed it out.
At her first modeling audition, her mother noted that a young man had been checking her out.
Young: She started modeling at age 14 (pictured) and said that even as a young teen, men paid her attention. Once, in middle school, a teacher snapped her bra (pictured at age 14)
‘That boy looked at you when you stood up and flipped your hair,’ she said, according to Emily. ‘He was watching you.’
But by far the creepiest moment was when an adult casting agent was poring over modeling photos of her with a sultry expression.
In 2021, she opened up about her experiences in her book, My Body
‘Now this is the look,’ he said. ‘This is how we know this girl gets f**ked!’
Emily recalled feeling embarrassed and wasn’t sure if she should be proud that that’s how she looked.
Still, she tried to embrace the power she convinced herself that she had because of her sexuality — though in recent years, she’s come to think differently about it.
‘It had never occurred to me that the women who gained their power from beauty were indebted to the men whose desire granted them that power in the first place,’ she said. ‘Those men were the ones in control, not the women the world fawned over.
‘Facing the reality of the dynamics at play would have meant admitting how limited my power really was — how limited any woman’s power is when she survives and even succeeds in the world as a thing to be looked at.’
‘I was forced to face some ugly truths about what I understood as important, what I thought love was, what I believed made me special, and to confront the reality of my relationship with my body.’
