United Kingdom, June 12 -- Emily Ratajkowski decided to turn herself into a "villain" after her divorce - someone "sexual but scary" that no-one could feel sorry for.

The Gone Girl actress split from film producer Sebastian Bear-McClard - the father of her now five-year-old son Sylvester - in 2022, after four years of marriage.

However, in an essay she penned for The Cut, Emily said she decided to use sex to transform herself following the break-up.

She wrote: "I decided to f*** 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.

"I wish I could say I'd started to date slowly . but the truth is ...