How tall is Emily Ratajkowski?

Emily Ratajkowski's height

Emily Ratajkowski is listed at 170 cm (5′7″). That is the figure in her agency profile, which Wikipedia's infobox cites to DNA Model Management in New York, and it is the value recorded on Wikidata and used by this site. No competing official listing was found in the sources consulted for this page.

What makes her height interesting is not that it is unusual for a woman, but that it is unusual for a fashion model. At 170 cm she is several centimeters shorter than most of the women she has shared runways and campaigns with, and her path through the industry reflects that.

How a 5′7″ model built a career

Ratajkowski herself has framed her height as something to push against: Wikipedia records her saying she wanted to break barriers for shorter and more curvaceous models, and that you don't have to be 5′9″ to be a successful model. Her peers show why: in the site's data, Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid are both 180 cm, Bella Hadid, Kaia Gerber and Irina Shayk are 175 cm, and Hailey Bieber is 171 cm.

Ratajkowski's route reflected those realities. According to Wikipedia, she signed with Ford Models at 14 while growing up in Encinitas, a suburb of San Diego, where both of her parents were school teachers, and did teen catalog modeling for Kohl's and Nordstrom. She spent a year at UCLA in 2009 before leaving to model full-time. Her early work was commercial and editorial, including campaigns and editorials with photographer Tony Duran, rather than the couture runway.

The breakthrough

The turning point came in 2013, when she appeared in the music video for Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines," featuring T.I. and Pharrell Williams. The video made her internationally recognizable almost overnight, and her career changed shape. In October 2013 Esquire named her its Woman of the Year, and in February 2014 Sports Illustrated named her one of twelve rookies for the 50th-anniversary Swimsuit Issue; she appeared again in 2015.

The runway, on her own terms

Once she was famous, the height question mattered far less. Wikipedia's account of her career records a runway debut closing the Marc Jacobs Spring/Summer 2016 show in New York in September 2015, followed by:

Wikipedia notes that the Marc Jacobs appearance, on 17 September 2015, contributed to her top spot on Vogue's list of 12 breakout beauty stars of 2015, and that Models.com ranks her among the new generation of supermodels.

Campaigns and covers followed: the face of DKNY Intimates in 2017, a Kérastase ambassadorship in 2018, Paco Rabanne fragrance, a Versace campaign for Spring/Summer 2023, and covers including Vogue España (February 2017), Harper's Bazaar Australia, Marie Claire and Allure.

Height on screen: Gone Girl and beyond

Ratajkowski's acting work gives some of the most useful side-by-side comparisons, because film crews and red carpets put her next to well-documented actors.

• Gone Girl (2014). In David Fincher's thriller she played Andie, the mistress of Nick Dunne, played by Ben Affleck; Wikipedia notes that Affleck picked her for the part after seeing her in the "Blurred Lines" video. Affleck is listed at 192 cm, about 22 cm taller. Rosamund Pike, who played Amy Dunne, is listed at 174 cm, so even Pike stood a few centimeters taller than Ratajkowski.
• We Are Your Friends (2015). Her first leading role, as Sophie, opposite Zac Efron.
• Later films included I Feel Pretty (2018) alongside Amy Schumer, who is listed at the same 170 cm.

The Affleck pairing produces the largest gap in her filmography among co-stars tracked on this site: 22 cm, almost nine inches.

Height in the public conversation

Ratajkowski has spoken and written widely about how her body has been viewed and used, most fully in My Body, her 2021 essay collection published by Metropolitan Books, which reached the New York Times bestseller list. Wikipedia describes the book's central concern as a woman's ownership of her own image, a theme she also pursued in a 2020 essay for The Cut and in a 2021 NFT sold at Christie's for $175,000. Height is not a theme of the book.

How 5′7″ compares with American women

Outside fashion, 170 cm is a tall height for an American woman. Ratajkowski was born in 1991. The NCD Risk Factor Collaboration estimates that American women born in 1996 average 163.5 cm, so she is about 6.5 cm, or 2.5 inches, taller than her generation's typical woman. The full trend is charted on the United States average height page.

The CDC's measured NHANES data for August 2021 to August 2023 give a precise picture. For American women aged 30 to 39, the 85th percentile is 169.5 cm and the 90th is 170.8 cm. At 170 cm, Ratajkowski is taller than roughly 87 percent of American women her age. For all women aged 20 and over, the average is 161.2 cm, which she exceeds by almost 9 cm. You can explore the figures for any height with the height percentile calculator.

So she sits in an interesting middle ground: comfortably tall in everyday life, but on the shorter side among supermodels.

Beyond the United States

Because Ratajkowski was born in London, it is also worth comparing her with British women. NCD-RisC puts the average British woman born in 1996 at 164.4 cm, so she is about 5.6 cm taller than her UK contemporaries; the United Kingdom average height page shows how that figure has changed over a century. The comparison shifts a lot by country:

In Latvia and the Netherlands, which have among the tallest women in the world, a 170 cm woman is almost exactly average. In much of Asia she would be well above average. Her height, in other words, is "model-short" only by the standards of an industry that has long recruited from the tallest few percent of women.

Weight and measurements

No agency or official biography quoted in reputable outlets gives a current weight for Ratajkowski, and this site does not publish an estimate. Model cards traditionally list bust, waist and hip measurements alongside height, but such figures change over time and are not reported here.

Business ventures and the uses of a recognizable image

Ratajkowski has turned visibility into businesses. In 2017 she launched the swimwear label Inamorata, starting with three bikini separates and three one-pieces, and in October 2022 she started the podcast High Low with EmRata with Sony Music Entertainment. Neither venture depends on her height. But both rely on the kind of personal brand that let a 170 cm model close a runway show, and they show why height, once a gatekeeper in fashion, has become far less decisive for models whose audience follows them directly.

Famous women at the same height

Height lists tend to make models look short and actresses look tall, so it helps to place 170 cm among other well-known women. In the site's data, Ratajkowski shares her height almost exactly with some of the most photographed women of the past century.

The table makes a simple point. On a film set or a music stage, 170 cm is a perfectly ordinary, even slightly tall, height for a leading woman. Audrey Hepburn, perhaps the most enduring fashion icon among film stars, was the same height. It is only in the narrow world of catwalk casting that 170 cm reads as short.

Why listed model heights can be tricky

Wikipedia's infobox cites her 5′7″ to DNA Model Management, and the agency figure is the one the site uses. Agency listings are working documents for clients rather than medical records, so they are best read as the agency's stated figure. In her case it agrees with Wikidata, and no reputable outlet consulted for this page reports a different number.

Compare your height with Emily Ratajkowski

To see how you would stand beside her, enter 170 cm and your own height in the height comparison tool. A woman of average American height (161.2 cm in NHANES) would be about 9 cm shorter. A man of 5′10″ (178 cm) would be about 8 cm taller, and a 6′0″ man (183 cm) 13 cm taller. Against her taller modeling peers the gaps are modest: Kendall Jenner is 10 cm taller on the site's figures, while Kim Kardashian, listed at 159 cm, is 11 cm shorter.