Emily Ratajkowski and Shaboozey Are ‘Seeing Where Things Go’

Emily Ratajkowski is getting to know artist Shaboozey but is not officially dating him yet, TMZ reports. The model and musician sparked rumors after Page Six claimed they were seen holding hands at a New York City nightclub this week. On Thursday, Ratajkowski was filmed backstage with Shaboozey at Z100’s Summer Bash at Hudson Yards.

Multiple sources told TMZ that it’s true Ratajkowski and Shaboozey are spending time together, but “their relationship is very casual and nothing serious.” The outlet wrote, “They are hanging out and seeing where things go.”

Ratajkowski spoke to British Vogue in a new interview this week about how her outlook on dating has changed since her divorce. The model was in a roundtable conversation with novelist Sarah Manguso, whose new book, Liars, explores one woman’s journey rediscovering herself as her marriage ends.

“Decentralizing men has been a huge part of my life,” Ratajkowski shared, reflecting on her own experience. “I still love men in many ways, but the Disney fairy tale I had once embraced of being chosen and building a life while being desirable to one man and keeping a man and all that, I just don’t find that interesting anymore. It’s opened so much space up in my life in so many incredible ways.”

She also spoke about her experience with power dynamics in intimate relationships. “I have a really complicated relationship with powerful men,” she began. “I certainly didn’t want someone who needed me to feel small. I’m quite unpleasant around men who need that, even if they don’t make that explicitly clear; I tend to be aggressive and not particularly nice. I have often attracted men who like big personalities. And yet, by the end of my marriage [to ex Sebastian Bear-McClard], I found…that my world was suddenly extremely small and less important, less valuable. It was a slow devolution from ‘Oh, we’re partners, and this person respects all that I’m doing’ to feeling like a possession. I had a deep understanding of misogyny in many ways because I’d not only been raised with parents who talked about it, but I also had very unusual and specific experiences around gender as a model. I really wanted to believe that we were past that.”

Alyssa Bailey is the senior news and strategy editor at ELLE.com, where she oversees coverage of celebrities and royals (particularly Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton). She previously held positions at InStyle and Cosmopolitan. When she’s not working, she loves running around Central Park, making people take #ootd pics of her, and exploring New York City.