Hi, my name is Andrea Longchew. I'm a writer and critic and a contributor to the New

York Times magazine. I'll be reading a profile of Emily Radikowski that I wrote for a recent

issue. Emily Radikowski is a famous model. She's an influencer on Instagram where she

has over 28 million followers. She has her own clothing line and now she is a writer. She has

published a collection of essays called My Body that is about her experience as a model, her

childhood, her rise to fame, and her complicated relationship to her body, her image, and the public.

There's a question that has followed Radikowski through most of her career, which goes something

like, well, how do you square the fact that you have a brain with the fact that men are consuming

your body through these images and making money off of you? And this question is not just condescending.

It's also, I think, the least interesting question to ask about this woman's career.

This was the first profile that I've ever written I have to admit. And before I started working on it,

I knew there was going to be this fundamental problem, which was that Emily Radikowski is attractive.

She says this in the book. She's famous for being attractive. How do you write about someone

who is famous for being looked out without falling into the trap of looking at her?

And I've written at length about my own body in the times and elsewhere. I famously have problems

with my own body, and I do think on my editor's part there is interest in knowing, well, what would

happen when you get these two people, me and Emily Radikowski and Arum together? We met for the first

time in September of this year. We got lunch together downtown. And what happened was there was

this instant kind of comfort. I think Radikowski felt like she recognized a kind of exhibitionism

in me that she also sees in herself. And we eventually settled into a pretty conspiratorial vibe.

Here's my article, the Emily Radikowski you'll never see.

I'm not going to tell you what the host has said to Emily Radikowski. Instead, I will tell you this.

...