Emily Ratajkowski Book ‘Mother F*cker’ Sells For Seven Figures To Penguin Press

July 9, 2026 10:25am

Emily Ratajkowski has signed a seven-figure deal with Penguin Press for her next book Mother F*cker after a 12-way bidding war, we understand.

Following the success of her 2021 New York Times bestseller, My Body, reps a return for Ratajkowski to the literary world with an examination of modern female identity through the story of the author’s own efforts as a newly single mother dating in New York City.

The multi-hyphenate, as we told you last summer, has an Apple TV series in the works with author Stephanie Danler with Lena Dunham executive producing under her Good Thing Going label about  female identity and modern motherhood. Ratajkowski is attached to star with that project representing her screenwriting debut.

Ratajkowski starred in the Netflix mini-series Too Much in addition to David Fincher’s Gone Girl and the Entourage feature film. She’s also the host and EP of the podcast, High Low With EmRata.

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