Becoming a celebrity is like the ultimate double-edged sword. On one hand, the entire world’s eyes are on you, and this opens up unprecedented opportunities to grow your career.
On the other hand, when everyone’s eyes are on you, that means everyone will notice when you make even the smallest missteps. That’s why celebrity scandals last for many years and sometimes end up defining their careers.
This is something Emily Ratajkowski understands all too well. Back in 2016, she wore a very special dress to the Harper’s Bazaar Icons Party. That dress left little to the imagination and caused a minor scandal that follows her to this day.
What was the original scandal all about, though, and what has been Ratajkowski’s surprising response to it? Keep reading to learn the answers!
The original scandal
In terms of celebrity scandals, wearing a dress may not sound so bad at first. Short of disrobing and performing her own “wardrobe malfunction” just what was so controversial about what Emily Ratajkowski did?
In a word: nothing. All that happened was that she picked out a sexy dress for the party. And the dress was basically so sexy that it caused plenty of jaws to wag about whether it was appropriate. The rest of the jaws, of course, were on the floor after everyone got a good look at her!
Looking back, Ratajkowski blames most of the heart concerning her dress on its panel. In a Harper’s Bazaar video, she acknowledged that part of the issue was that she didn’t realize the dress would be too spicy for this event. “I was in my 20s and I just hadn’t registered that it was so sexy,” she said. However, she clarified that she didn’t realize it was so sexy “because there is a panel in the middle, but it looks like there isn’t.”
“It caused this whole thing,” she said before giving the understatement of the millennium: “there was drama.”
