Emily Ratajkowski was just another model up till the point everyone saw her in Robin Thicke's NSFW music video Blurred Lines. That video has opened all the doors for her and today she's being featured in just about any thing to do with sexy or a bikini.

But Emily isn't just perfection to look at. She's also got the smarts. She attended UCLA for a year before pursuing modeling, and her parents are both educators. She spent a lot of her childhood moving around different parts of Europe, Now she's everywhere. We tracked her rise to fame in the list below:

1. Worked for Forever 21 and Nordstrom at first.


2. Became a fashion model after several campaigns with photographer Tony Duran.


3. Appeared nude on the cover of Treats! Magazine


4. That was her "audition" for Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines, which she initially turned down at first! 

The censored version:

5. Achieved international mega fame in that video. And then douchebag Adam Levine thought she'd be good in his video too:

6. Went on to shoot for the cover of GQ Turkey


7. Featured in a Carl's Jr. commercial

8. Named one of the 12 new SI rookie swimsuit models


9. Going to be an actress now in David Fincher's "Gone Girl"


10. Did this for GQ July 2014 issue:


Bonus:

11. Follow her Instagram because she always posts these kinds of pictures:






Can't help but notice but she looks a tad bit like Miranda Kerr: