Emily Ratajkowski's TikTok video goes viral

Top model Emily Ratajkowski revealed in a TikTok video that while she was recording the video, a stranger on the street told her to “put on a shirt.”

“Girl, put a shirt on,” a man's voice can be heard in the background of the TikTok video Ratajkowski posted to her page on August 21. “Wait for it: man tells me to put a shirt on,” Ratajkowski captioned the video, which shows the model walking down the street in a tight gray tank top and black yoga pants.

The TikTok video, which Ratajkowski posted on her page @emrata, had 1.8 million views as of August 23.

Emily Ratajkowski's caption to the TikTok video was a reference to a viral trend

Ratajkowski captioned the video, “notoriously unreserved, notoriously unmindful,” a reference to another TikTok trend by influencer Jools Lebron.

“Your restraint means something to you. It means you are mindful and considerate of the people around you, but also of yourself and your appearance in the world,” Lebron told CBS News.

According to CBS News, Lebron started the low-key and mindful trend in August by posting a video of herself putting on makeup, saying, “See how I do my makeup for work? Very low-key, very mindful. I don't do too much. I'm very mindful at work. See how I look? Very presentable. A lot of you girls go to the interview and look like Marge Simpson and go to work and look like Patty and Selma, not low-key.”

Other stars, including Jennifer Lopez, have also picked up on the trend.

Fans rushed to Emily Ratajkowski’s aid

GettyUS model and actress Emily Ratajkowski.

Fans defended Ratajkowski in their comment thread. “Imagine saying that to Emily Ratajkowski,” wrote one.

“The audacity to speak to a stranger like that. You should dress and be who you want to be,” wrote another fan.

“I never acknowledge them either. They should be ashamed of talking to themselves because I don't give my very valuable energy for nothing 💅,” wrote another.

“We should all get together and buy and wear the same top,” wrote another fan. “At least you magically had your camera on,” wrote another.

In a volume of essays entitled “My Body,” Ratajkowski spoke openly about her relationship to her external appearance.

“Beauty was a way for me to be special,” Ratajkowski wrote, according to People Magazine. “When I was special, I felt my parents' love most strongly.”

She wrote that she felt both empowered and trapped “within the confines of a cis-heterosexual, capitalist, patriarchal world” when she profited from her looks as a model, People reported.

“Whatever influence and status I have gained has only come because I appealed to men,” Ratajkowski wrote in the book's introduction, according to People. “My position brought me close to wealth and power and gave me a certain autonomy, but it did not lead to true empowerment. That is something I have only now achieved, after writing these essays and giving voice to my thoughts and experiences.”

Jessica McBride is a news, sports and entertainment reporter who covers breaking news, politics, sports, entertainment and crime for Heavy. She is a former reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Waukesha Freeman newspapers in Wisconsin and is an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. More about Jessica McBride