In a recent TikTok video, Emily Ratajkowski discussed the new Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde directed by Ana de Armas, which also happens to have Brad Pitt on board as a producer. 

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 Blonde was criticised for being a movie that fetishizes female pain by the model who has lately made headlines for dating rumours with Pitt.

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Emily criticised the film on TikTok on Friday, September 30, for fetishizing women's suffering and demise.

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 She said, "We love to fetishize female pain. And I think as women, I can say for myself for sure, I’ve learned how to fetishize my own pain and my own hurt in my life so that it feels like something that can be tended to that’s kind of sexy."

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 In the film, the model discussed how people are drawn to popular figures who have overcome obstacles, citing Princess Diana, Amy Winehouse, and Britney Spears as examples.

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The model further added how there needs to be a change on how the public views women, and women look at themselves.

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. She added, "But I was thinking about it and you know what’s kind of hard to fetishize? Anger. Anger is hard to fetishize. So I have a proposal. I think we all need to be a little more pissed off. I’m gonna be in my witch era. 2022, baby, is my b***h era." 

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Ratajkowski is not the only one to have called out Blonde .

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The film received harsh reviews from critics as well as audiences who have been calling out the traumatic portrayal of Monroe's life as distasteful.  

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