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(Photo by Valerie Macon/Getty Images)Getty Images—2012 Getty Images by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) Oct 28, 2013 12:40 PM UTC Emily Ratajkowski, the model from the “Blurred Lines” music video — you know, the super hot one — has captured _Esquire_‘s [“Woman of the Year”](http://www.esquire.com/blogs/news/sexy-women-bracket-final-results-2013) title. The winner is determined by readers, and Ratajkowski took 64.6 percent of readers’ votes in a five-round bracket, beating out America’s sweetheart, Jennifer Lawrence, in the last round. Now what’s great about Jennifer Lawrence is that she both [looks like this](http://www.esquire.com/women/women-we-love/jennifer-lawrence-photos-0610) _and_ tells industry folks who say that she has to lose weight that they can [“go f\*\*\* themselves.”](http://entertainment.time.com/2013/10/04/jennifer-lawrence-reveals-she-was-told-to-diet-or-get-fired/) Plus, she’s a powerful [role model](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katniss%5FEverdeen) for young girls (see, _Hunger Games_ and previous comment about body image). The problem with Ratajkowski? Most people don’t know her name… just her body (appropriate-for-the-office version of the “Blurred Lines” video below). But what do you expect? _Esquire_ has a male audience and male voters, and they don’t really care what Jennifer Lawrence has to say about body image and self-confidence. Ratajkowski hopes to change the perception that she’s all body and no talent though: She said in a recent New York _Times_ [interview](http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/24/fashion/for-emily-ratajkowski-robin-thickes-blurred-lines-video-brings-a-career-path-into-focus.html?%5Fr=1&) that she wants “to be a brand,” and she’s foraying her “Blurred Lines” success into an acting career (she’ll be Ben Affleck’s mistress in the hit mystery-novel-turned-film [_Gone Girl_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2267998/?ref%5F=nv%5Fsr%5F1)). She hasn’t [won an Oscar](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQNj-gF9bfE) quite yet like JLaw has, but maybe some day. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/7116750/why-the-blurred-lines-girl-beat-out-jennifer-lawrence-for-esquires-woman-of-the-year/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/7116750/why-the-blurred-lines-girl-beat-out-jennifer-lawrence-for-esquires-woman-of-the-year/"},"headline":"Why The 'Blurred Lines' Girl Beat Out Jennifer Lawrence for Esquire's 'Woman of the Year'","datePublished":"2013-10-28T12:40:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-25T06:01:54.016Z","description":"Emily Ratajkowski, the model from the \"Blurred Lines\" music video — you know, the super hot one — has captured Esquire's \"Woman of the Year\"...","url":"https://time.com/archive/7116750/why-the-blurred-lines-girl-beat-out-jennifer-lawrence-for-esquires-woman-of-the-year/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltafe03678e5c81426/698a8e1847ca385f7d3c3117/144170838.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltafe03678e5c81426/698a8e1847ca385f7d3c3117/144170838.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Treats! 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