Emily Ratajkowski has joined the rising checklist of celebrities calling out Blue Origin for sending a star-studded, all-female crew as much as house for a leisure journey on Monday.
“That house mission this morning? That’s finish time s–t. Like, that is past parody,” the mannequin informed her TikTok followers in a selfie-style video filmed within the automobile.
“That you simply care about Mom Earth and it’s about Mom Earth, and also you’re going up in a spaceship that’s constructed and paid for by an organization that’s singlehandedly destroying the planet?”
Ratajkowski, 33, urged her followers to “take a look at the state of the world” and “take into consideration what number of assets went into placing these girls into house,” questioning, “For what? What was the advertising and marketing there?”
She concluded her rant by saying how “disgusted” she is by the entire thing.
Blue Origin is owned by billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, whose fiancée, Lauren Sánchez, was joined by pop star Katy Perry, broadcast journalist Gayle King, NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen and movie producer Kerianne Flynn for the roughly 10-minute voyage.
The women made the journey in full glam and customized blue uniforms designed by Sánchez.
After making it safely again to Texas, Perry was photographed kissing the bottom, a picture that rapidly went viral on social media.
“Billion {dollars} purchased some good memes I suppose,” actress-director Olivia Wilde shadily wrote atop the image whereas sharing it on her Instagram Story.
Olivia Munn slammed the mission, too.
“There are such a lot of different issues which might be so essential on this planet proper now. … What are you guys gonna do up in house? What are you doing up there?” she requested on “Right now with Jenna and Pals” earlier this month previous to the launch.
Host Bush Hager defined that the group could be floating round and admiring Earth from afar, which prompted her fired-up visitor to level out, “It’s a lot cash to go to house, and there’s lots of people who can’t even afford eggs.”
The actress, 44, later added, “What’s the purpose? Is it historic that you just guys are happening a experience? I feel it’s a bit gluttonous. House exploration was to additional our data and to assist mankind. What are they gonna do up there that has made it higher for us down right here?”
Like Ratajkowski, Munn additionally puzzled whether or not “all that rocket gasoline is nice” for the surroundings, noting that there are “quite a lot of assets being spent” on the journey.
