Emily Ratajkowski thinks pregnancy is “lonely”

She said: “My husband likes to say that ‘we’re pregnant’. I tell him that while the sentiment is sweet, it’s not entirely true. I resent that his entire family’s DNA is inside of me but that my DNA is not inside him. ‘It just seems unfair,’ I say, and we both laugh. It’s kind of a joke, but there is truth behind it.

“Pregnancy is innately lonely; it’s something a woman does by herself, inside her body, no matter what her circumstances may be. Despite having a loving partner and many female friends ready to share the gritty details of their pregnancies, I am ultimately alone with my body in this experience.”

Emily also noted her husband doesn’t feel any of the “aches” and “pains” that she has been enduring on a daily basis since falling pregnant.

She added: “There is no one to feel it with me - the sharp muscular aches in my lower abdomen that come out of nowhere while I’m watching a movie or the painful heaviness of my breasts that now greets me first thing every morning. My husband has no physical symptoms in ‘our’ pregnancy, another reminder of how different a woman and man’s experience of life can be.”

The model has said she’s keen to raise her child in a gender-neutral environment, but admitted she’s worried about having a daughter, as she doesn’t know if she’ll be able to “protect” her from misogyny.

Writing in an essay for Vogue magazine in which she announced her pregnancy, Emily explained: “I can’t help worrying. I still fight subconscious and internalised misogyny on a regular basis, catching myself as I measure the width of my hips against another woman’s. Who is to say I’d be able to protect my daughter from it?”