Megyn Kelly rips Emily Ratajkowskis whore essay as harmful to young women: Shes become a slut

Megyn Kelly blasted Emily Ratajkowski’s graphic essay about her post-divorce sex life as a harmful example for young women, accusing New York Magazine’s The Cut of glorifying promiscuity under the guise of female empowerment.“Shame on The Cut for running this,” Kelly said during Wednesday’s episode of SiriusXM’s “The Megyn Kelly Show,” denouncing Ratajkowski for “becoming a slut” as “kind of a soothing balm, I guess.”The former Fox News primetime host was reacting to Ratajkowski’s essay, “Mother F–ker,” published Friday by The Cut, in which the model and actress details her life as a newly single mother after the collapse of her marriage.In the piece, Ratajkowski describes embarking on a period of compulsive dating following her separation, writing that she was trying to figure out “what kind of woman” she wanted to become.Kelly took particular issue with the article’s graphic descriptions of childbirth and motherhood.“She became the thing she never wanted to be, which was a single mother,” Kelly said while summarizing the essay.“I think most women remember some pain around the birth, but when you ask them about the birth, they might say, ‘Oh yeah, I was in a lot of pain,’ but then the very, very next thing they’d say is how wonderful the baby is, and what it’s like to become a mother, and the miracle of that first moment.”“That’s not really how she describes it.”Ratajkowski, 35, rose to fame as a model before becoming an actress, author and social media personality with nearly 30 million Instagram followers.The essay chronicles her divorce and subsequent dating experiences while raising her young son.In one of the article’s most provocative passages, Ratajkowski writes: “I decided to f–k my way into a new kind of woman.”“I wanted to destroy the Madonna, the special girl I’d worked so hard to be before an eight-pound baby had torn my vagina in two, and replace her with the whore,” she wrote.Ke...