Emily Ratajkowski has revealed a male casting agent made a vile comment about her modelling photos when she was still in secondary school. 

Writing in her new book, My Body, Emily, 30, claims the unnamed man said: 'Now this is the look... This is how we know this girl gets f****d,' while browsing her portfolio.

Emily, who began working aged 12, also writes that she was branded 'too sexy' when she was aged just 13 and wrote: 'I was a child... But somehow already an expert in detecting male desire, even if I didn't completely understand what to make of it.' 

Emily said she's 'tired' of being a sex symbol after 17 years of objectification by male colleagues in the fashion industry.

In the collection of feminist essays, Emily detailed how her parents 'focused' on her appearance and were keen capitalise on it. 

She wrote of her youth: 'I've never prayed much...But I do remember that as a young girl I prayed for beauty. Beauty was a way for me to be special. 

'When I was special, I felt my parents' love for me the most... It seemed important to them both, especially to my mother, that their daughter be perceived as beautiful.' 

Emily also told of an incident where she was sent home from a school dance aged 13 for being dressed 'too sexy' - much to the anger of her mother. 

Emily recalled how she had cried while her mother told her: '"Those people can go f*** themselves, you don't have anything to be ashamed of."'

She explained of her career: 'I built a platform by sharing images of myself and my body online. But in other, less overt ways, I've felt objectified and limited by my position in the world as a so-called sex symbol.'