Emily Ratajkowski buys her son dolls to 'balance' his truck obsession

2022-11-09

Emily Ratajkowski reveals she bought her truck-obsessed son Sylvester, one, a baby doll and tea set to ‘balance’ out his gendered toys

Emily Ratajkowski revealed she actively tries to ‘balance’ out her truck-obsessed son Sylvester’s toy collection by purchasing him playthings specifically targeted at girls.

During Tuesday’s episode of her High Low podcast, the 31-year-old supermodel told her guest, Julia Fox, that her tot ‘literally gets so excited’ by ‘things with wheels.’

‘But is this just what he likes naturally?’ she wondered, before saying it makes her ‘so sad’ to think about her little boy being pressured to ‘toughen up’ as he gets older.

Doting mom: Emily Ratajkowski revealed she actively tries to ‘balance’ out her truck-obsessed son Sylvester’s toy collection by purchasing him playthings specifically targeted at girls

The author went on to say: ‘I’m like, are those the little ways you can start making sure the conditioning doesn’t happen? And spending a lot of time around women?’

Meanwhile Fox, who shares a one-year-old son, named Valentino, with ex-husband Peter Artemiev, also raved that her baby ‘loves trucks’ and ‘freaks out’ over them.

But to keep things ‘balanced’ out, the former muse of Kanye West says she bought a pink truck and a ‘little stroller with a doll in it.’

Baby boy: During Tuesday’s episode of her High Low podcast, the 31-year-old supermodel told her guest, Julia Fox, that her tot ‘literally gets so excited’ by ‘things with wheels’

‘But is this just what he likes naturally?’ she wondered, before saying it makes her ‘so sad’ to think about her little boy being pressured to ‘toughen up’ as he gets older

‘It’s hard as a single mom, raising a son, you just don’t want them to end up like every single guy you’ve ever met, you know?’ the Uncut Gems actress said. ‘How do I stop this conditioning from occurring?’

Earlier this year, Ratajkowski opened up about her difficulties raising a son and why she doesn’t try to gender him.

‘Babies have this genderless quality to them, and so I love affording that to him right now,’ she told Interview magazine. ‘I’ve just been treating him as this wonderful little human who’s being introduced to the world.’

Still, Ratajkowski said that she ‘noticed that as soon as people know that’ her toddler is a ‘boy,’ she sees loved ones ‘interact with him’ differently’ than a a baby girl.’

‘Sometimes I feel frustrated by that because I think there’s even a tendency to throw a little boy in the air, be a little bit rougher with them than you would a little girl,’ she said. ‘That stuff already bothers me because I can see where it’s leading.’

Last week, she revealed becoming a single mother has been ‘so nice’ because she no longer feels as though she owes anything to any person or man following her split from ex-husband Sebastian Bear-McClard.

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