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Emily Ratajkowski\u2019s<\/a> viral essay detailing her sex life as a single mom just landed her a seven-figure book deal. <\/p>\n According to Page Six,<\/a> the model\u2019s essay in the Cut<\/a> had publishers champing at the bit in a 12-way bidding war that culminated in the hefty pay day. Editor Helen Rouner at Penguin Press \u2014 who also edited Lauren Christensen\u2019s memoir \u201cFirstborn\u201d and Michael W. Clune\u2019s novel \u201cPan\u201d \u2014 reportedly landed the deal.<\/p>\n Penguin Press did not immediately respond to The Times\u2019 request for comment Friday. <\/p>\n Publishers Marketplace announced the forthcoming memoir, describing it as \u201can examination of modern female identity through the story of the author\u2019s own efforts as a newly single mother in New York City to discover what really constitutes a good life for a woman.\u201d<\/p>\n The essay, which dropped a month ago and quickly broke the internet, drops the veil on EmRata\u2019s sexual adventures (or maybe misadventures) since she and her former husband, Sebastian Bear-McClard, split in 2022. <\/p>\n \u201cIt was a violent transition into a new reality of screaming baby on my aching tit and ring on my swollen finger,\u201d Ratajkowski writes of new motherhood. \u201cAnd then, in a time period that felt both instant and excruciatingly slow, my marriage collapsed. Six months after my son was born, my husband and I stopped having sex. Less than a year later, we separated.\u201d <\/p>\n In the missive, the model interrogates her sexuality \u2014 is she a Madonna or a whore? \u2014 while untangling bigger questions around gender, power and self-actualization. If Carrie Bradshaw wrote about \u201cSex and the City,\u201d then Ratajkowski is writing about sex, the city and single motherhood. And naturally, her fleeting paramours have vague monikers: \u201cVegan Graffiti Artist,\u201d \u201cSpanish Gen-Zer\u201d and \u201cSon of a Billionaire.\u201d <\/p>\n \u201cAnd then there was the Elder Millennial: obsessed with dental hygiene, psychedelics, and dirty talk,\u201d she writes. \u201cHe had approached the subject coyly at first, like it was something he was kind of embarrassed about \u2014 the way a kid will test you to see if you\u2019ll talk to them about their dorky obsession of the moment. Do you like Godzilla? What about Star Wars?\u201d<\/p>\n Would-be sleuths with Ratajkowski\u2019s essay and a gossip rag handy will have their work cut out for them. <\/p>\n This will be Ratajkowski\u2019s second book. The first, \u201cMy Body,\u201d dropped in 2021 and was a bestselling collection of essays exploring gender, power dynamics, sexuality and the commodification of female beauty in the modeling and entertainment industries. <\/p>\n