Emily Ratajkowski and Sebastian Bear-McClard were married for four years, and their separation became one of 2022’s biggest headlines when it came to infidelity. According to several outlets, Sebastian cheated on Em. The couple share a son named Sylvester together.
Although the former spouses have been separated for four years, Sebastian made headlines again in June 2026 after Emily published an essay via The cut about their separation and her subsequent dating life as a single mother.
“Six months after my son was born, my husband and I stopped having sex,” Em wrote in the essay. “Less than a year later we broke up.” The London-born model recalled how people would look at her in a “condescending way” after her split from Sebastian. “Their furrowed brows, the pity on their faces when they said ‘I’m so sorry, Emily,'” she continued. “I couldn’t bear my pathetic reflection in their eyes. They saw me as someone who was unwanted, who had been left behind.”
As a child, Em wrote that it was “crucial” for her to “avoid becoming a single mother” because she saw it as “an insult.” She explained: “Having a child with the wrong man was the quickest way to ruin your life as a woman – it meant no freedom, no choice, no emergency exit. All baggage and no security.”
However, Emily “decided to fuck (say) his way into a new kind of woman” by embracing a “craze” of one-night stands and brief flings.
“Before my separation, I had never had a one-night stand,” she pointed out. “I’d never slept with anyone the same day I met them. In fact, I’d only slept with eight people: four of whom had been boyfriends, one of whom was my male best friend in high school. I didn’t fuck anyone I wasn’t sure would fall in love with me because I wanted to be precious.”
So what really happened between Emily and Sebastian? Learn about him and their past marriage below.
What does Sebastian Bear McClard do for work?
Sebastian is a film producer, actor and director. He has produced several popular films, including Uncut gems and Good time.
How long were Sebastian and Emily together?
Sebastian and Emily sparked dating rumors in 2018. After just a few weeks of dating, they surprised everyone with a whirlwind marriage.
Four years later, the couple divorced.
Why did Emily and Sebastian get divorced?
Multiple outlets reported that Sebastian allegedly cheated on Emily during their marriage. Neither has publicly addressed these rumors.
However, Emily remembered their split during her essay with The cut. She explained that their sex life plummeted after she gave birth to their son.
Emily Ratajkowski’s Dating Story
Emily’s most famous relationship was with Sebastian, but she opened up about her string of flings in her 2026 essay. She called her list of hookups “unequivocally deranged characters from human hell” in New York, which included a DJ from Brooklyn who told her that incest ran in his family. “But he was an anomaly,” she noted. “There was vegan graffiti artist with impeccable posture, chef who thought he might have chlamydia, Spanish Gen-Zer who couldn’t stop sending me nudes, heavily self-medicated son of a billionaire with questionable politics, several Italians, and of course another DJ.”
“The list goes on but won’t for legal reasons,” she noted.
Her longest relationship from this list was a man she nicknamed “Oldest Millennial” who told her he thought he was in love with her after three weeks of dating. She felt a “flicker of familiar anxiety in (her) chest” as a result. But in the end, she didn’t appreciate him calling her his “whore” to seduce her, so she broke things off by telling him, “That dirty talk doesn’t really work for me.”
